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Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
| 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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"So, based on my experience, they need more from you during the teenage years than during the toddler stage."
I can see where you are coming from, especially based on your experience.
However, imo, children need/require a lot of different things regardless of age, stage, etc.
Sure, any parent can say, such as such was the most important time wrt their children.
However, I don't think it will necessarily be the same scenerio for each child, or even wrt children in the same family I might add.
Anyway, thanks for sharing. You should post more often.
"For one thing, not all Christians celebrate Christmas on December 25, just as not all Christians celebrated Easter yesterday."
And? Your point here would be...what exactly?
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"On Christmas? by all means, yes. Why? Because the word Christmas means, literally, the Mass of Christ; it is a contraction of the words "Christs Mass"."
And this gives Christianity a monopoly how?
BTW, Also from Wikipedia:
"The celebration of the winter solstice was widespread and popular in northern Europe long before the arrival of Christianity, and the word for Christmas in the Scandinavian languages is still today the pagan jul (=yule).
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"I for one think so."
Really? How?
Also for Wikipedia:
"Since the customs of Christmas celebration largely evolved in northern Europe, many are associated with the Northern Hemisphere winter, the motifs of which are prominent in Christmas decorations and in Santa Claus stories."
Playing dumb again, eh?
Why did you choose the date of December 25th to celebrate your "non-religious, secular, cultural, non-Christian" holiday? Why not January 7th, the date that many Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas?
Or, for that matter, why not any date on the calendar? Why December 25th in particular?
Are you also celebrating the "non-religious, secular, cultural, non-Jewish" holiday of Passover?
How about the "non-religious, secular, cultural, non-Muslim" holiday of Ramadan?
BTW, since your dd received non-Christmas presents from her grandparents, do they also celebrate non-Christmas with you, or do they actually celebrate "Christmas"?
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