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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Registered: 11-03-2005
Fri, 03-24-2006 - 12:38pm
They didn't study MY child. So they have no idea whether or not the hours are appropriate for my child or not. Fortunately, I do.
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Registered: 11-03-2005
Fri, 03-24-2006 - 12:39pm
There really isn't a need for the repetition. All it does is lengthen the thread, inundate us with information we've read 897 times already and make you look like really stubborn.
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Registered: 11-03-2005
Fri, 03-24-2006 - 12:44pm

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Yes. It is telling. It tells that I strongly believe the amount of time my child spent was irrelevant.

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Yes I've read the OP. And my children do not fit the profile of the children they have studied. The time they have spent in othercare has not shown to have had negative developmental effects.




Edited 3/24/2006 1:52 pm ET by okiegirl71
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Fri, 03-24-2006 - 12:50pm
Callahan will spend anywhere to an hour to two hours at a time working in workbooks (writing, drawing, doing dot-to-dots, matchinig exercises, color by numbers, all those things). He's very into that right now. Hmmmm, guess I'm homeschooling him.
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Fri, 03-24-2006 - 12:52pm

Yes, that's what I mean. Homeschooling/unschooling for doing what other parents do and call "parenting." So not impressive.

Second question: No. We're no different from most of the other involved families around us.

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Fri, 03-24-2006 - 12:55pm
I still read to my boys and do projects WITH them as well. Wouldn't want it any other way. They clean their own brushes now, though.
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Fri, 03-24-2006 - 12:55pm

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"I agree .. with a clarification."

"For many, many, many families, a parent's work schedule is what determines the need for some sort of "program". In that portion of the equatioin, the parent's work schedule is of prime importance. It is, however, the child's social, emotional, academic, and developmental needs that determine WHICH program the parents choose (along with a logistical and financial needs of the parent ... which are usually, ime, secondary to the child's needs as listed above.)

I disagree.

*CHILDREN* do not have a developmental need for extended day substitute childcare programs.

*PARENT'S* have a logistical and financial *NEED* for such programs.

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Fri, 03-24-2006 - 1:04pm

"Yes, that's what I mean. Homeschooling/unschooling for doing what other parents do and call "parenting." So not impressive."

Potatoe, pototoe.

You're welcome you use any label you like, as am I.

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Fri, 03-24-2006 - 1:08pm

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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."

What have you stated?

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 03-24-2006 - 1:09pm
You're mixing up the logic. Just because a child doesn't *need* the extended care program doesn't make the extended care program "developmentally *inappropriate.*"

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