Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful

Avatar for myshkamouse
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
2470
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

Pages

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 11:08am

ROFLOL...my youngest loves those books.


PumpkinAngel

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 11:15am
Do you think there are as many gifted, at risk kids in U.S. society as there are special needs children?

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-22-2005
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 11:20am
LOL...and just WHERE were you last night when I was all punchy and awake...and alone? LOL

Karen


"I think I've figured out why mooching beach bums, by the way: nobody's going to hire you when you look like you just got here from the opening scenes of an instructional video called Don't Touch That!: A Cautious Employer's Guide To Preventing Sexual Harassment."


Miss Alli @ TelevisionWithoutPity, The Amazing Race



Image hosting by PhotobucketImage hosting by PhotobucketImage hosting by Photobucket

Karen

"Veronica: "I hate fake deer too. Every time I see their stupid fake-deer faces I want to grab a shotgun and go all Cheney on 'em." Sure, but since fake deer don't talk, they won't

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-16-2004
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 11:37am
And I think retailers have learned to embrace the consumer potential of Hanukka. Stores have aisles dedicated to Hanukka right along side the Christmas aisles. Remember the bruhaha around Walmart's greeting customers with Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas? Makes good business sense to welcome those who are there to shop for Hanukka gifts! Jews will soon be able to decry the commercialization of their holiday right along side Christians.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 11:57am

ita...what carrie considers cultural more than spiritual and popular more than christian celebration is just wrong....my kids love santa at christmas time but they know christ's birth (or baby jesus birthday like ds,3 would say) is so much more important.

p.s. if i can reply to your question before regarding partaking in a rcc communion even though you aren't catholic..i don't know that it's any more *disrespectful* than it is a *conscience* thing. dh isn't catholic and knows that instead of partaking in the body and blood, he walks up with his hands folded over his chest for a blessing. (rcc priests, deacons and eucharistic ministers don't know who is and who is not catholic).

and fwiw, catholics aren't even supposed to partake in communion unless they are in full grace and spirit with the sacrament.....one of the most annoying things one of the priests at my church has shared is when catholics walk up to communion in laxadaziel (sp) fashion - without their hands in prayer, not bowing and hardly a whisper of amen when they are given the body of christ.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 12:01pm
bwah. i just shared below that i don't think cinco de mayo is a big deal here at all (i'm in a houston suburb).....maybe i just don't pay enough attention to it but i can't think of one parade in may that celebrates this victory. and this day is hardly a day off work unless hispanics are allowed to excuse it as a holiday like some people do wrt religion.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 12:11pm
Because every single child ought to have access to an education that will allow that child to maximize his or her potential. We shouldn't be performing triage in elementary school classrooms: "this one we can help...this one is on his/her own." We shouldn't be aspiring to mediocrity and call that first-rate education.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 12:17pm
Rudolph parks up on the roof and since it's Advent, the elves can't come because it's their busiest time of year. Sort of like the accountants in the days leading up to April 15th.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-20-2006
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 12:39pm

You know, most people, particularly children, tend not to segregate their interests into neat little boxes like that. It's quite incredulous that your daughter, all on her own (hence "child-led") came up with such a broad based, sequential outline of activities. In fact, most children, when deciding what activities to engage in, don't plan them out months in advance. True child led learning is much messier than that. They tend to get obsessed with 1 interest and do nothing but that for long stretches of time, then something else grabs them and they focus on that. The way that your daughter unschools herself is very unusual, almost like she trained to be a teacher.

Also, you say you have nothing planned b/c your daughter comes up with this all on her own, yet you say you study one composer a month and one artist a month. I'm not real clear on that. Either your daughter does this on her own, and you don't know what she is going to plan, in which case your use of "we study one composer a month and one artist a month" was a reference to past months, during which your daughter (again, very unusually, separated her activities into very convenient, yet artifically constructed subtopics) or you have much more of a hand in planning her "unschooling" than you would have us believe.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-12-2003
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 1:20pm

Of course.

 

Pages