Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful
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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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A tad.
PumpkinAngel
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Freedom of speech does is not what
PumpkinAngel
"For the same reason we care about the blind kids even though the sighted population is much larger, the quadraplegic kids even though the able-bodied population is much larger, the non-English speaking kids even though the English-speaking population is much larger. Because we are supposed to be committed to providing a quality education to EACH child, no matter which subset of the population that child happens to fall into. Because it's very stupid, in the long run, to allow children to fall through social and educational cracks."
Well said lois.
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To a certain extent, you are right.
PumpkinAngel
"I'm truly sorry they neglected you so. I really am. Shameful."
I agree. It is shameful.
So you are just following the crowd and doing what is popular, convenient and traditional?
The advertising dollars, I guess are well spent on you.
PumpkinAngel
But to understand the differences and respect those differences don't you have to know why there are differences?
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