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Once Upon

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a Time

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the child

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was born

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a beautiful child with a very

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proud family who is full of

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Hope about the child's future

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 a child with a

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credibly fast-growing brain  a

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fast-growing brain that needed stimulating

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play to develop and

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get prepared for kindergarten

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and life  the child

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Spirit do that many

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Minnesota kids we're not

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getting prepared for kindergarten

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been to many of those children

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who started kindergarten behind well they

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didn't catch up  the

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parent pledged that their child

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not be left behind and the

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parents started shopping for the kind

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of childcare or preschool that would

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help the child get prepared for

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but the parents struggle to

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identify kindergarten Readiness best practices

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 and it turned

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out this parent wasn't

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only one struggling 

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96% of minnesotans said

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parents needed better information

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to guide their choices

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and at long last better

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information arrived  the parent

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aware ratings help parents find

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providers in their area

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using kindergarten Readiness best practices

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 the Starbase ratings are

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simple to understand and use

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when shopping for childcare

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and so the parent use the

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search results to find the

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parent aware rated provider that

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best met their child's needs

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and then that

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beautiful child with

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the incredibly

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fast growing

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learn and learn and learn

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some more until that beautiful

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child was ready for

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kindergarten State on track

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School graduated and got a

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great job  and that

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beautiful child with the well

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developed brain lived happily ever

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laughter and that path

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to happily ever after

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all started in those

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early pre-kindergarten years

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