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: 03-27-2003
Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:03pm
You and she both do the same thing. You incorrectly call it homeschooling. She temporarily also incorrectly called it homeschooling on purpose to make a point. The point being that using a label incorrectly is a game that anyone can play. Except that she knew it was a game and you actually believe you are doing something.
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Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:03pm

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Yep. Just let the girl go outside and play. There doesn't have to be a lesson involved. She doesn't have to learn anything. Just have some plain, old-fashioned, down-and-dirty, nothing-educational-about-it fun.

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All day? Nope. Once in a while? Sure. Nothing wrong with that.

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Perhaps you meant to say ... "Is there something wrong with a child choosing to play?" But I really doubt you meant that.

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:07pm
I would give up. Sippy cups are natural, you know.
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Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:08pm

"If you lurk at the Homeschooling board then you should've realized by now that what you do is not "homeschooling."

Hmm, Perhaps you should read the *About This Community* heading. Btw, here it is.

About This Community

"Have you decided to homeschool your children and don't know where to start? Are you looking for ideas to help educate your children, either full-time or after school? Whether your child is a preschooler or high schooler, or your homeschooling style is eclectic or unschooling, you will find support, ideas, and resources right here."

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Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:10pm
Post 612: that's the one where you revealed that you have confused "educational need" with "developmental need". Educational needs are constantly and quickly evolving because they are what a child needs to function in whatever society they were born into. Developmental needs are biological and change at the same slow pace that biology does, which is to say that it takes far longer than just the few thousand years that have passed since civilization was created. What children need to develop into healthy adults will not change until the species as a whole becomes biologically different from what it has been for the past several millenia.
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Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:11pm
You are right. I should recognize a wall when I see one. Thanks for the heads up and ciao for now.
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Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:11pm

"We as a species are really no different now than we were many thousands of years ago. We have created a fair amount of technology and complex social structures in the intervening millenia. But our biology remains the same."

Really? Are you serious?

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:17pm

"No. Your label is not correct."

Prove it.

"I am sensitive about it because it really irks me when people think that they can make a word mean something different simply by declaring that their new meaning is the correct one."

Thanks for sharing. Guess you'll just have to get over it.

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:17pm
Blah, blah, blah.
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Registered: 01-13-2006
Mon, 04-03-2006 - 7:18pm
See post 710.

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