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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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:13am

"BTW, dd homeschools 190 days per year and attends public school 175."

"Hey look, momofhk FINALLY figured out how many days her kid goes to school!

Way to go! It only took her.....a year and a half."

Perhaps you're thinking of a previous debate wrt my dd attending a alternative private school when she was preschooler? As this school operated on an untraditional school calendar?

Or perhaps you're talking about last year when I couldn't post exactly how many days my dd would be in school until the end of the year? BTW, just for the record, it was 168 days.

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:16am
please dont tell me you really believe that every other parent does nothing but let their kids watch silly tv and play video games all day. but you know what there is nothing wrong with watching silly tv sometimes and my kids and i have a blast playing video games together.
Jennie
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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:22am
i see most things that kids do as educational, in that they are learning something. certainly not educational in the formal sense but educational none the less. i read a quote somewhere that said basically "that a child who is educated only at school will be uneducated" but i dont believe that just because a child is learning at home that you can call it homeschooling.
Jennie
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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:30am

So you are able to teach an entire curriculum at the college level? Wow. That's pretty impressive. My dd is at the point where most of her classes are college level. Math, science, language arts, and fine arts too? You can teach advanced skills on various musical instruments, painting, scuplture, voice, dance as well as trig, calculus, physics, chem and literature?

That's amazing.

Susan

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:38am

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Everyone who has studied and written about education, from Rousseau to Montessori to Piaget to Bruner has agreed with that one. We'd never have survived as a species if we depended exclusively on formal education.

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Me either; I see no purpose in stretching the definition of a universally understood term. If play and enrichment at home equate to homeschooling, then cohabitation equates to marriage. They have much in common, but they're not the same.

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:41am

"Any parent can provide educational enrichment to their kids, and most do. But
in Massachusetts, there's a formal process to homeschool your child. I've never heard of anyone being confused about the difference."

Apparently, several posters are very sensitive about the fact that my dd is homeschooled / unschooled during the 190 days per year when she is not in public school (as well as approximately 2 hours per day during the regular school year I might add).

BTW, I realize most people don't homeschool during those other 190 days when their children are not in regular school (or approximately 2 hours per day during the regular school year). However, we do, hence the reason we make such a claim.

In fact, if you want to get technical here, my dd is homeschooled / unschooled more days per year than she attends public school. Do I therefore make the claim that she is not really attending public school? No, I claim that she does both, which she does.

All in all, I don't really care if people have a problem here. Obviously, we're going to keep doing exactly what we're doing, which is homeschooling /unschooling *and* sending our dd to public school.

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:45am

"OK, now I'm finally beginning to understand your bias. You think ~ or perhaps you need to convince yourself ~ that the rest of us parents allow our kids to sit in front of the tv or Playstation every minute that school is not in session."

Please cite where I made such a statement?

While you're at it, please cite where I have stated that we homeschool/unschool "every minute that school is not in session."

"That would then elevate your efforts to the level of "homeschooling" and as you said earlier make your and your DH's value equal with that of your child's teachers."

No need to elevate our status, as dh and I are already = to our dd's teachers.

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:49am
that is fine, but then you also have to accept that 90% of other parents are doing exactly what you are doing. i dont stop doing things with my kids once school gets out, in fact we do even more things then, as do most parents i know.
and actually no one cares what your dd does, what we take issue with is you trying to call what every parent does one thing, but when you do the same thing it magically becomes something else.
Jennie
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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:51am
not quite getting your point? mine, was that my children's daycare had/have a nine hour max policy...you drop them off at 8, you pick them up by 6...not a hard concept to follow...
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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 9:52am
gosh thats not many days, our kids have to attend school for 185 days

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