Long hrs in preschool/daycare harmful

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Registered: 03-26-2003
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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Registered: 01-13-2006
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:20pm

"Do you consider definitions in Webster's "objectively true" or not? Just generally accepted meanings?"

Depends on the word/concept/idea.

When it comes to "objectively true" scientific and mathematical definitions, yes.

When it comes to "objectively true" religious, or moral definitions, no.

When it comes to "objectively true" definitions such as love, art, expensive, funny, etc, no.

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:20pm

BTW, Again from post 782:

"Clearly not everyone agrees on the definition of every "common" term. Hence the reason why semantics and interpretation are often an issue, particularly wrt debate. As I have stated on many ocassions, IMHO, there is a certain degree of subjectivity and/or personal interpretation involved here, which often tends to be the underlying source of the more heated debates.

Does everyone accept the same defintion wrt the following terms/concepts/ideas:

God, love, evil, sin, truth, spirituality, art, beauty, murder, morals, morality, immorality, marriage, evolution, expensive, funny, appropriate, inappropriate, tasteful, distasteful, conformity, nonconformity, etc, etc, etc?

Likewise does everyone accept the definitions/distinctions/differences between the following:

daycare vs. school, daycare vs. preschool, toddlers vs. preschool aged children, dcp's vs. teachers, breastfeeding vs. ebm via bottle feeding, full day preschool vs. full time preschool, cribs vs. cages, othercare vs. parental and extended family care, homeschooling vs. parenting, SAHM, WOHM, PTWOHM, private school vs. paraochial school, etc, etc, etc?

For instance, as a Pantheist/Evolutionist, I most certainly believe in God and/or a Higher Power. However, I am not religious, nor even a Christian. Therefore, most people would inaccurately say/claim that I don't really believe in God, seeing as I don't believe in a religious, "Christian" God.

However, I would wholeheartedly agree. As is my God given right LOL :)"

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:23pm
Ideally, that would be the case. We would meet the needs of every child. But we have limited resources. What then? For which population should we spent the money?
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:23pm

Um, yes? I'm not sure what you are asking me?

My objective is to explain to my kids that people believe different things, and that differences are worthy of respect, even if we don't share the same beliefs. I'm not particularly concerned about explaining *why* people believe differently, as I think that is a very personal thing with no right answer.

Carrie

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Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:26pm
Are there any dumb children in the world?

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Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:27pm
Why is "mathematics" objectively true? Mathematics is just a system of agreed upon conventions for representation of reality. It is internally consistent, which makes it nice and elegant, but mathematics is no more objectively true than any other man-made symbolic system.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:29pm

The sheer beauty of your post in terms of English language expressiveness is a wonder to behold.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:31pm
I thought your dd had pervasive developmental disorder, not below average intelligence.

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Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:31pm
I don't believe that we, as a society, truly have "liimited resources" when it comes to the amount of time, talent, and money it would take to provide children with truly excellent educations. I do believe we have chosen, as a society, not to provide that kind of education. It would be much more honest of us to say that we believe in educating children to the extent that they can be productive citizens, some agreed upon level of functionality. Because that is, in effect, what we are doing. We just SAY we believe in helping each child reach his or her potential.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 04-20-2006 - 4:31pm
I can only respond at the risk of being designated a liar and/or having to debate the "objective meaning" of basic concepts in education, so if you don't mind I think I'll pass.

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