Placements of cattle on feed in June were down 7 percent in those states, as well as the United States as a whole. Placements are expected to continue below last year's levels for the rest of 2000 due to a slightly smaller calf crop and placement of many calves already due to low feedlot cost of gain. In addition, many calves were put on feed in the last part of 1999 due to drought. Some of those calves would have typically been backgrounded and sold as yearlings this summer. If you think teachers are the most important people for helping your child to learn, think again.
Parents are the first and most important teachers of their children.
Even after children start to school, parents play a big role in how well children adjust and learn in the classroom. Here are some things you can do as a parent to help your children make the most of this school year. You can do this by keeping books around the house, by reading, looking up words in the dictionary, finding information in the encyclopedia and sharing it with the family and by watching educational television programs together and discussing what you learned. If you give all the answers for the math homework or do the science project for your child, you're teaching him to depend on others for answers. Focus on what she has done well or focus on good behavior, not on mistakes or bad behavior.