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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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:15pm

Ooooooooo! I meant to ask you and Karen (and Chris!)...


Now that

Mondo

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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:18pm

"Your school doesn't offer ANY extracurricular activities (or any worthwhile ones)?"

They offer a tutoring program.

However, my dd has no need for, nor any interest in such a program

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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:29pm
When does it get out? Ours still starts after Labor Day. We are in session into the third week of June.
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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:32pm

The first week of June.


PumpkinAngel

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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:35pm

How you can say stuff like that without your nose growing is beyond me.

PumpkinAngel

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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:39pm

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"Agreed. But I don't know of anyone, personally, that has used a developmentally innappropriate program. I sure haven't."

Really, you don't know of anyone, personally, that has used a developmentally innappropriate extended day program? How many hours/weeks was your children's full time program again?

Again, the use of a developmentally innappropriate extended day program is *still* the use of a developmentally innappropriate extended day program.

A parent's work schedule doesn't charge that.

Nice try in attempting to leave out the *extended day* aspect/distinction above btw.

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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:43pm

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"well, obviously it is a *child's* social, emotion, academic, developmental needs."

Indeed. Quite obvious.

"And funny, I thought it was a social and emotional need for kids to have a roof over their heads, to be supervised, to be warm, to not be on the streets."

Again, the use of a developmentally innappropriate extended day program is *still* the use of a developmentally innappropriate extended day program.

A parent's work schedule doesn't charge that.

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Registered: 11-03-2005
Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:45pm

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No. I don't. I'm sure some parents have. But none of the people I know personally have.

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Doesn't matter. It wasn't a developmentally inappropriate program. No matter how many hours they were there. It was developmentally appropriate for them. Would it have been for every child? Certainly not. But it was for my children.

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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 4:48pm

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Saying it over and over and over and over and over and over again won't change my stance.

I agree that if a program is developmentally inappropriate then it is developmentally inappropriate. However, length of time does not determine whether or not it is developmentally innappropriate. There are plenty of ways a program can be developmentally innappropriate without being "extended-day". And plenty of ways an "extended-day" program can be developmentally appropriate.

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Thu, 03-23-2006 - 5:01pm

"When your child works on her origami, her fiction writing, looking in her telescope, she's PLAYING!"

Absolutely! Dh and I (as well as dd I might add) are huge fans of child- led learning through play.

In fact, this is precisely why I chose to teach (preschool as well as K-1) at an alternative arts integrated/play based private school.

It was absolutely wonderful. Sadly it is no longer open, sigh :(

"I can't fathom why you call the ordinary activities that children do at home to be "homeschooling"."

Actually, I called them child-led homeschooling/unschooling activities.

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