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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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BWAHAHAHAH!
If you believe that all necessary programs exist, does that also mean that every federally funded program we have is a necessity?
ROFL!
Is the United States so perfect in your opinion that everything that should be a societal responsibility already is?
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"And I'm still waiting to hear your response to my posts about Oklahoma schools and the number of children in full-time Pre-K programs."
I'm on it LOL.
"If so, then you'd be correct if you meant typical in your district."
Thanks. Very nice of you to defend/verify my point.
"But, as an almost-life-long oklahoman, I can assure you that Edmond is not the typical."
You can say that again. In fact, the quality of the school system was the very reason we moved to Edmond.
Did you know that all three Edmond High Schools ranked in the top 1000 high schools in the country according to Newsweek (6 total for OK)? Here's the link:
http://www.edmond.k12.ok.us/newsweek-05.htm
BTW, what part of OK are you from?
"How about giving us a reason, an intellectually stimulated response, explaining WHY one is a societal responsibility and one is not?"
I have. On several ocassions.
Again, finding, providing, and arranging substitute childcare is a parental responsibility.
Not a societal responsibility.
Just because you don't like my answer, hardly means that I didn't give a legitimate, intelligent, valid, response.
I'm *from* Fairview ... I live in Stillwater. Part of the reason I chose Stillwater (besides the fact of a good job offer) when i moved back to OK was because of the schools. I'm very pleased with the school system here.
BTW, there are two schools in the Edmond district that provide b/a care.
http://www.edmond.k12.ok.us/clegern/daycare.htm
http://www.edmond.k12.ok.us/orvisrisner/childcarepage.htm
And at least 5 private schools that have full-day, full-time preschool.
Yes you can use whatever label you want. However, inventing your own definitions for words may be quite amusing for you, or make you feel better about what you are doing, but it doesn't often lead to productive discourse. In many cases, such as when a woman with a job claims that she's *really* a stay at home mother, I suspect that she is a deeply conflicted woman who wants/needs to prove to herself or others that despite having a job, her kids are her main priorities and that she is indeed the mother she wants to be or persuade others that she is. When you label your parenting activities "unschooling/homeschooling" it suggests to me that you are conflicted about contracting out such an important role in your daughter's life and need to assure all concerned that you are still in charge of the process of her education.
You ever heard that story about Abraham Lincoln and how he picked a jury? He'd ask, "If you call the tail of a dog a leg, then how many legs does a dog have?" Some said five, some one, and others four. Lincoln only wanted to work with the people who said four, although in a pinch he'd take a potential juror who said one. People who said five, he thought, were too easily led. People who said one at least recognized that if you call the tail a leg, you ought to call the legs something else to avoid conflating two very different parts to the dog. But people who said four, like old Abe, recognized that you can call the tail of a dog a leg, but that doesn't make it one.
So yeah, call it whatever you like. But calling it something else doesn't change what it is.
IMO, saying something isn't a societal responsibility because it isn't currently a societal responsibility is intellectually similar to saying that women aren't lawyers because prior to X date, law schools didn't admit female students.
Do you have any response other than "because it isn't right now"?
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"When you label your parenting activities "unschooling/homeschooling" it suggests to me that you are conflicted about contracting out such an important role in your daughter's life and need to assure all concerned that you are still in charge of the process of her education."
Conflicted? Not at all.
Do you feel conflicted? I don't understand why this is such a sensitive subject for you.
BTW, my dd is in charge of her education. Not me or dh btw.
In fact, if she decided tomorrow (or in the next few years which very well may me the case when she reaches middle school) that she wanted to stop going to public school altoghether and do only child-led homeschooling/unschooling that would be fine by dh and I.
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