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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But then how is that child led?
PumpkinAngel
But if you don't use them for longer than you need to (or, in the case of SAHMs, as is developmentally appropriate for the child), I don't see a problem.
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Ironically, that's how I see playgroups. Most of the benefit of playgroups inures to the parents. I'm a sahp and have been in various playgroups over the past 5 years with my 3 children. Currently we're in 2 pgs with my two-year-old son. If you want to talk unsupervised free play, then you're talking about the playgroup, not the longer day at preschool.
IME in pgs, the parents talk, relax and have coffee/sandwiches almost to the point of excluding the children. It's just set up that way. The parents are hands-off. *That's certainly not a bad thing.* And it's truly been a positive for me as a sahp to socialize. And my children like seeing other kids. And certainly the pg is an incentive to get out of the house. But unless a adult directs kids, a lot before age 3 is just parallel free play.
Free play is supervised at preschool, but not so in the playgroup. Preschool staff have no other focus than the children. The playgroup is pure free-play. And when you go to the playground and the children naturally spread out, again only the parents benefit from socializing. It is a benefit for children in playgroups to be active and engage in free play, but I see real advantages to supervised free play with adult intervention and direction that don't exist in the playgroup.
i would be perfectly happy with my child playing legos all day - they are using their imaginations - and in my mind that is a huge educational asset.
Jennie
Jennie
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