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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"You could just concede that's what kids do and forget about giving it some special label"
Special label??? You mean child-led homeschooling/unschooling activities?
"that implies that you are somehow doing something more than any other thoughtful parent does."
Dh and I certainly don't think we're doing something more than any other thoughtful parents do.
Do you?
Jennie
"However, length of time does not determine whether or not it is developmentally innappropriate."
Again, that's not what the OP says:
"According to the Stanford and UC study, children who spend more than six hours a day in center-based care outside the home showed poor social skills. It is especially pronounced among middle and upper-income children.
Researchers noted social detriments such as "diminished levels of cooperation, sharing, motivated engagement in classroom tasks and greater aggression."
Likewise, that's not what the NICHD Early Child Care Study says:
"The more time children spend in any of a variety of nonmaternal care arrangements across the first 4.5 years of life, the more externalizing problems and conflict with adults they manifest at 54 months of age and in kindergarten"
"These effects remain, for the most part, even when quality, type, and instability of child care are controlled, as well as when maternal sensitivity and other family background factors are taken into account."
"The data show that as children accumulate more time in care across the infant, toddler, and preschool years, the more externalizing problems and conflict with adults they manifest; and that more time in care not only predicts problem behavior measured on a continuous scale, but at-risk (though not clinical) levels of problem behavior, as well as assertiveness, disobedience and aggression."
"1. Long hours (longer than 32 -36 hours per week) does not make a program developmentally inappropriate."
Again, that's not what the OP says:
"According to the Stanford and UC study, children who spend more than six hours a day in center-based care outside the home showed poor social skills. It is especially pronounced among middle and upper-income children.
Researchers noted social detriments such as "diminished levels of cooperation, sharing, motivated engagement in classroom tasks and greater aggression."
Likewise, that's not what the NICHD Early Child Care Study says:
"The more time children spend in any of a variety of nonmaternal care arrangements across the first 4.5 years of life, the more externalizing problems and conflict with adults they manifest at 54 months of age and in kindergarten"
"These effects remain, for the most part, even when quality, type, and instability of child care are controlled, as well as when maternal sensitivity and other family background factors are taken into account."
"The data show that as children accumulate more time in care across the infant, toddler, and preschool years, the more externalizing problems and conflict with adults they manifest; and that more time in care not only predicts problem behavior measured on a continuous scale, but at-risk (though not clinical) levels of problem behavior, as well as assertiveness, disobedience and aggression."
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"Doesn't matter."
In other words, you don't want to answer the question, right? Very telling btw.
"It wasn't a developmentally inappropriate program. No matter how many hours they were there."
Really??? No matter how many hours they were there. Have you read the OP?
Jennie
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Goody. But that's totally irrelevant since I haven't said that over and over. In fact, I haven't said it even once.
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Do you?>>
Not by what you've described here no.
And nice try at calling those-who-don't-do-as-momofhk thoughtless.
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