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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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:17pm

He's a girl now.

 

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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:25pm
I'm afraid I've explained the difference about as clearly as I can. If you didn't get it then, I'm pretty sure you are incapable of understanding my point of view and further attempts to communicate it would be sort of like trying to teach a pig to sing.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:26pm

Well, tinder, you should know by now that hk's definitions are the only ones that count. Perhaps we can get hk to define the word "obtuse."

 

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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:35pm
It gives Christianity a monopoly because the term Christmas is a contraction of Christ's Mass- just as she pointed out. The fact that Christianity decided to co-opt a bunch of pagantraditions (indoor tree, misteltoe) does not change this. European pagans who brought a tree indoors to celebrate winter solstice did not call their celebration "Christmas" because it wasn't. You can choose to ignore The "birthday of Christ" aspect if you want. Lots of people do. But your choice to ignore that aspect does not mean that the aspect disappears or is no longer an actual part of the holiday. Christianity has a monopoly on Christmas just as Judaism has a monopoly on Passover and Islam has a monopoly on Ramadan.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:38pm
Wrong on both counts. Both Christmas and Easter are Christian holidays. That a lot of people choose not to focus on- or pointedly ignore- the Christian focus of those holidays doesn't mean that it disappears. Just because you ignore something something doesn't mean it disappears.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:40pm
Just out of curiousity, have you ever read the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:40pm
Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ. Just because you choose to ignore that doesn't change the meaning.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:42pm

Here's a homeschooling idea for you. Have your dd ask

 

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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:43pm
My word, you really are Humpty Dumpty. You honestly think that words have no accepted meaning and you can declare that they mean exactly what you say they mean. This is amusing but false.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 3:46pm
Well, actually, she CAN re-define words to her heart's content. She's has a right to make up her own language, even her own system of well, logic. However, she has no inherent right to be taken seriously when she does so.

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