Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful

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Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
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Sun, 03-19-2006 - 3:09pm

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051101/news_1n1earlyed.html

Very interesting. Particularly the difference in the middle to upper income kids vs low income.

"I personally feel children need the nurture of their parents and the home," she said. "Those early years, that's when they are bonding to their family. That nurturing, only the family can give that."

I tend to agree.

MM, WOHM to B&E, 7.24.03

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Sun, 04-16-2006 - 1:45pm
i totally understand and agree. there is a huge difference between the disabled child and the gifted child....both must qualify for special classroom and modification of curriculum but similarities pretty much stop and end there!

 

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Sun, 04-16-2006 - 4:12pm

Honestly, I have no idea what this entire exchange of posts with you has accomplished, other than to be continually insulted by you.

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Registered: 07-16-2005
Mon, 04-17-2006 - 7:16am

If any of this is true, and I have more doubts now than ever, I just can't reconcile this full-on intensive schedule with your earlier strong defense of homeschooling = playing with toys on Christmas day. The two are irreconcilable.

I don't believe a child can do all of that on top of public school. Also, you have now definitively made clear the child does not have time for friends, t.v., sports and daydreaming. It sounds like a great presciption for some serious burn-out by the time she reaches Middle School. Whether you are to be believed or not, I see some arguable dysfunction where you see superiority.

What do you have planned for April and May?

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Registered: 07-16-2005
Mon, 04-17-2006 - 7:24am

No, I haven't researched learning disabilities. Do you think the child with a learning disability should be in a gifted program?

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I think I kind of know the difference between a physical disability and a learning disability, but thanks. ;)

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Mon, 04-17-2006 - 10:31am

Oh, I thought you had mentioned having researched gifted education, lurking at gifted boards, etc. I would have guessed you would have already run into the notion of "twice exceptional" children, those who are intellectually gifted but have special needs other than their giftedness, such as dyslexia, sensory integration issues, non-verbal learning disability, and so forth.

Of course a child with a learning disability should be in a gifted program if the child qualifies for and can benefit from the program.

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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 10:41am
I'm not going to say whose needs are greater because I wouldn't have the time to clarify or debate my position. Let's just say that children of all varieties have a lot of needs. And I am saying that giftedness and having learning disabilities are not mutually exclusive "conditions," and I felt it was important to point that out.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 11:32am
ITA.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 1:20pm

"My kids are also homeschooled, and homeschooling is also their primary education."

Your statements aren't consistent with your claims, Sabina.

YOU: If my children acquire their education through public school, then public school is by definition homeschooling?

ME: Again, Correction:

If the primary situation your children aquire their education is through PS, then PS is primary situation where they aquire their education.

Sabina, Please note:

When you state that your children acquire their education through public school, then clearly PS is the primary situation where they aquire their education, not homeschooling.

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Mon, 04-17-2006 - 1:20pm

"What is the definition of Christmas that differentiates it from... say... Easter? (Which I celebrate as a non-secular non Christian holiday)"

Christmas is a secular, non Christian holiday celeberated in the winter coinciding with the the Winter Solstice.

Easter is a secular, non Christian holiday celeberated in the spring coinciding with the the Spring Equinox.

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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 1:23pm

"What is the definition of Christmas that differentiates it from... say... Easter? (Which I celebrate as a non-secular non Christian holiday)"

Edited to add the dates in parenthesis.

Christmas is a secular, non Christian holiday celeberated in the winter coinciding with the the Winter Solstice (near December 22)

Easter is a secular, non Christian holiday celeberated in the spring coinciding with the the Spring Equinox (near March 21).

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