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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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 3:45pm

"maybe you touched a nerve that is still pretty much alive and well"

Are you sure you didn't study under Yogi Berra?

You write the funniest things sometimes!

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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 3:45pm
No. You're the only one who has ever asked any of these questions, ever, or thought these very deep thoughts. The rest of us get our answers from the lady at the Beauty Parlor, Ouija Boards, and Oprah.
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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 3:48pm
It's sad but here in the USA it's each family for itself wrt education; many other countries are "eating our lunch" in that department. Between that and globalization, we're going to be dead meat economically before long, I'm convinced.
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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 3:50pm

So many chances to say "I didn't really mean to call cognitively disabled kids 'dumb as a post'". Even when tinderbox hinted that you perhaps didn't really mean it that way you said that yes, you really did.

"Evidently, thinking that every child, no matter what, deserves the best education possible is 'revealing' of something negative about me to Susannah." Nope. I never objected to that sentiment even once. I objected to the term "dumb as a post" to refer to the kids with lower than average IQ. I'm glad that you feel they deserve the best education too. I'd prefer if you would refrain from calling them "dumb as a post" even as you say they deserve a good education. But if you simply can't refrain from doing that- well, THAT'S what's revealing, not the "deserves an education" part.

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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 3:53pm
Can I ask you again if you know what hyperbole is?
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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 3:56pm

I know what hyperbole is. However, there are times when it's innapropriate and is an insult. This is one of those times.

edited to add: you called my dd and everyone like her "dumb as a post". I don't care how cute you were trying to be with hyperbole. When you absolutely stand by your insult rather than saying "bad choice of words", that is what is revealing.




Edited 4/19/2006 3:59 pm ET by susannahk2000
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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 4:02pm

You should know I only use my Huffy Buffy on you.

(And my dh when we are camping and he (oh so unwisely) disagrees with how I put the tent up.)

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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 4:05pm

Knock Knock


Who's there?


Pot.


Pot who?


Pot meet the kettle.


PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 4:07pm
I didn't call your daughter and everyone like her "dumb as a post." Sorry, but I didn't. I was referring to a scale of ability/intelligence, using extremes on both sides. Your children, and mine, and everybody else's child on the board, falls in between the extremes. See, there is no one alive who is "dumb as a stump" because a stump is a non-sentient entity. So unless your daughter is a non-sentient being, which seems impossible, no, I was not referring to her. Likewise, there are very few true geniuses out there -- a handful every century. My sentence was hyperbole - extravagant exaggeration. The sentence meant that everyone, from the person of very lowest ability, to the person of very highest ability ought to be given an education that allows them to maximize their potential.
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Wed, 04-19-2006 - 4:10pm

Unless our school system turns around, I have to agree.

PumpkinAngel

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