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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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I don't mind that there are plenty of people who celebrate a secular Christmas and Easter. Both holidays have been commercialized and therefore opened up to the general populace, so to speak. It doesn't effect how I and my family celebrate what are to us, very important Christian holidays. However, I do get annoyed at the sight of people in my church on Easter Sunday who obviously have never been to church, or who go once or twice a year simply because it's Christmas Eve or Easter. If you're not religious, then celebrate a secular version of the holiday. Why would you sit through a religious service that means nothing to you? I don't go into a temple on Yom Kippur. I don't visit the neighborhood mosque during Ramadan. It is a little insulting to sit behind someone who plunks herself down in the pew just as the Gospel is about to be read, simply because she's tired of all the standing.
Then again, who am I to judge?
So, your answer is "yes." I was simply asking for clarification because the tone of your posts had been going in the direction of, if you are gifted, you are likely to have an LD. Thanks for clarifying that was not your original intention.
But I now understand why you are so frustrated and disappointed with your school district if you also talk down in this same way to every educator who asks for simple clarification from you.
I understood SZM to make an innocent omission (like a typo) in using the phrase "mutually exclusive." That's a difficult phrase and it's going to take most people first learning to use it a few times before it flows smoothly. Kind of like the word "nonplussed."
It was a question of usage, not logic. The word "always" I believe should be included.
Do you think the fact that you (and your DH ~ I can't remember) are academicians in the liberal arts arena is a factor in your son excelling in the language arts? I ask because my home was a tiny bit similar ~ my parents took us to the library every week and I had already read most books on local high schools' reading lists by the time I got to Middle School. It's not the same as your son at all because he is an extremely advanced reader in 4th grade, but I have a theory on some of this...
For instance, a relative of DH's is Autistic and has been getting Intensive (with a capital "I") one-on-one daily therapies since age 22 months. He's now 4 and tests well ahead of his peers in math and reading. Is he gifted with a learning disability? Or is he merely showing the results of two years of 4 - 6 hours a day of working one-on-one with the experts?
I was by no means gifted but was reading James Joyce and the Romantic poets going into 6th and 7th grade because of my parent's efforts. That was unusual for those days, probably not nowadays.
Also, like DH and I, you noted that you are <>
If a child is tutored at home, or has parents who go way above and beyond what the other parents are doing in fostering the child's unique interests, or if the child receives special intensive services from his school district, is it any wonder that he will excel in one or 2 areas? Is that then a "gift"?
sigh. i'm not going to argue school with you again pka but isn't that why you have your kids in private school..because public wasn't the fit for your otb boys? there is plenty more opportunity and school choice for average, bright, genius kids than the disabled child.
and my point to hk is that while gt programs are a fine outlet for the accelerated child, it is not as necesssary or threatning to an education standard (nclb) as the disabled child....a disabled child can not be discriminated against because of his disability and a gifted child has no such disability outside an above par intelligence.
I can't speak to what services your nephew is getting, but for most of the autistic kids I know the one-on-one services aren't covering academic subjects. It's not tutoring.
Many autistic kids are very into numbers and letters. They refer to these as "splinter skills", which always sounds to me like "don't get your hopes up, your kid is still a mess." Anyway, some kids on the autistic spectrum can have genius I.Q.'s. But I wouldn't call autism a learning disability. It's so much more than that.
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