Let’s Grow Kids and the Montshire Museum of Science are co-hosting the Vermont premiere of No Small Matter, the first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated and powerful force for good in America today: early childhood education. Through poignant stories and surprising humor, the film lays out the overwhelming evidence for the importance of the first five years and reveals how our failure to act on that evidence has resulted in an everyday crisis for American families and a slow-motion catastrophe for the country. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with national experts in the fields of early childhood development and child care, two of whom are interviewed in the film:
● Alan Guttmacher, MD, pediatrician, medical geneticist and former director of the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development
● Lynette Fraga, PhD, executive director at Child Care Aware of America (featured in No
Small Matter)
● Matthew Melmed, JD, executive director of ZERO TO THREE (featured in No Small
Matter)

The film screening will begin at 6:15 PM in the Montshire’s Porter Community Room, followed by a panel discussion at 7:40 PM. The event is free and open to the general public.