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 - 4:12pm

"FTR, I consider myself to be a religious; and in philosophical terms, I probably shouldn't be categorized as a Christian. I'm rather an agnostic right now. But I pretty much believe that Christ did exist, was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. And rose again. Therefore, even though I'm in an agnostic phase right now, I DO feel "okay" to celebrate Christmas."

Thanks for sharing.

BTW, here are my thoughts on the subject.

I consider myself to be spiritual, as opposed to religious.

In other words, my belief in God, is entirely devoid of any and all religious dogma / doctrine and/or religious affiliation whatsoever, but rather purely spiritual in nature.

Again, Pantheists:

"take the real universe and nature as our starting and finishing point, not some preconceived idea of God. We feel a profound wonder and awe for these, similar to the reverence that believers in more conventional gods feel towards their deity, but without antropomorphic worship or belief that Nature has a mind or personality that we can influence through prayer or ritual."

"Therefore, even though I'm in an agnostic phase right now, I DO feel "okay" to celebrate Christmas."

I too, feel "okay" to celebrate Christmas. I simply observe it as a secular, non Christian holiday that is celebrated in the winter, coinciding with the Winter Solstice (near December 22).

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 04-17-2006 - 4:58pm
Why don't you just celebrate the Winter Solstice? Do you also celebrate Passover, since it's close to the same time as the Vernal Equinox?
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 5:19pm

Oh, she hasn't been taken seriously in years (and I think she is well aware of that fact, which is why she keeps plugging away, each story growing more and more fanciful yet bizarre).

But she does provide for benign amusement.

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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 5:51pm

why don't you answer that yourself hk....honestly, i disagree and understand now why a gt sort of program is *not* federally mandated the way special ed is.

in order to be on an even playing field, both must have equal chances at success. the greater threat to that would be the disabled child than the gifted child.

 

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Mon, 04-17-2006 - 7:35pm
And in what way is this different from what you do? Need I claim that what my kids get in public school isn't worthwhile? By this time you're grasping so desperately at straws that it's clear you should have dropped it over a week ago.
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Mon, 04-17-2006 - 7:38pm
From what you've posted so far on various educational issues, I'm pretty sure I don't care to engage you on the topic of special needs. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't care to, either.
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Tue, 04-18-2006 - 7:08am

School districts recognize the learning disabled actually have the greater needs in that they provide tutelage even before the learning disabled child enters regular school. Also, the tutelage can be one-on-one and intensive.

In contrast, school districts normally don't truly address the gifted child's craving for advanced learning until later on in elementary school. And even then, it's not just one-on-one tutelage, but the gifted are found to thrive in the group classroom setting. From my observation, the gifted child tends to be fiercely independent (as can the learning disabled of course) and prefers to be handed an assignment and allowed to run with it, rather than have the close instruction the learning disabled benefit from.

So I agree the learning disabled have real needs while the gifted will certainly thrive without any intervention.

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Registered: 07-16-2005
Tue, 04-18-2006 - 7:14am

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Can you clarify? Did you mean to add the word "always" in your sentence as in "And I am saying that giftedness and having learning disabilities are not *always* mutually exclusive "conditions,"?

Or do you think the gifted child will always have a learning disability too?

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Tue, 04-18-2006 - 7:19am

I hadn't, which is surprising considering the number of other personality disorders I see in the course of dealing with disgruntled employees.

 

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Tue, 04-18-2006 - 7:35am

This really gets my goat. I know several people who celebrate Christmas in a non-secular way and it is annoying. Christmas is a time for Christians to celebrate the birth of Christ. My family and I take it seriously (we bake a birthday cake for baby Jesus every year) and it is insulting when people celebrate a holiday b/c it is mainstream to do so.

I do not celebrate Hannauka (sp?). I am sure if I were Jewish and knew someone who did this I would also be insulted.

It is mocking someone's religion.

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