Mother Goose on the Loose Helps Children Play Their Way to Literacy

BALTIMORE - Aug. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Baltimore, August 5, 2015/Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC/- Mother Goose on the Loose LLC announced today the launch of a KickStarter campaign to bring its award-winning, literacy enhancing, music class directly to childrens' hands through a new home kit. The company aims to raise $50,000 to finish the development and produce the first batch of the Mother Goose on the Loose (MGOL) Home Kits that will empower parents by giving them and their children playful ways to create joyful early literacy experiences at home.

The Home Kit is based on the MGOL library program, that in 2002, was recognized by the Godfrey Award for Excellence in Public Library Services for Families and Children. With the KickStarter campaign, parents and children will be given the opportunity to sing nursery rhymes, ring bells to the beat, and take turns pulling Humpty Dumpty off of his wall at home just like in the class. All of these activities help children build social, emotional, and language skills. The Home Kit will enable parents and children to continue building these skills, while also being more affordable to reach a larger audience.

According to the founder, Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen “These kits have the potential to boost children’s literacy skills though playful interactions with their parents. The kit’s contents enable parents to effortlessly share healthy, research-supported practices with their children in a fun engaging atmosphere.”


Parents using the Home Kit with their children can help bridge “the 30 million word gap”, can increase the number of vocabulary words children know before entering kindergarten, and give children practice at taking turns and thinking before they act. Studies show that all of these practices build learning potential, improve school performance and create a positive sense of self. Children with this type of strong start have higher earning potential, more success at long-term relationships, and significantly lower rates of incarceration as adults. By giving parents easy and fun ways along with age-appropriate tools for interacting with their children, MGOL seeks to affect positive change on a large scale.

About Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC

Mother Goose on the Loose, LLC is a provider of early learning services and products that provides engaging and entertaining educational experiences to infants and toddlers in partnership with their caregivers that cultivate and foster early literacy and learning skills. In 2013 The New York State Library named Mother Goose on the Loose as “one of the three best practices for library-based early literacy programs.” Dr. Diamant-Cohen also received the 2013 ASCLA Leadership and Professional Achievement Award for “revolutionizing the way story times are presented to young children at libraries across the country” and “has demonstrated her leadership by promoting a program that is developmentally sound and solidly grounded in the latest research about how young children learn”