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 - 2:55pm

Wait, wait!

Are you technically "working"? It seems to me you are planting and watering. You don't get paid for that now, do you? Please use the correct definitions.

I sound like someone familiar, don't I?

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 2:56pm
i dont really think anyone cares about your life one way or the other. but we do find it odd that you have one set of definitions for yourself and another for everyone else. according to the way you use the word homeschool i do homeschool my kids, according to the normal definition, accepted by the rest of the world i do not.
Jennie
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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 3:01pm
the funny thing is that she knows my kids are in public school and she knows i do not consider my parenting to be homeschooling - afterall, how many times have she and i gone round and round about that
Jennie
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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 3:35pm

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But I am homeschooling. Yep, I've decided I definitely am. That list of questions made it crystal clear to me. In fact, almost everyone I know is, too.

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 3:43pm
Are we debating your life? Not just the meaning of homeschooling?
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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 7:54pm

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Sure, yours at post 695:

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'Fess up. Clearly you are certain that the alternative to your method of parenting is what the rest of the parents do: just plop 'em in front of a tv.

That's why you and your DH don't see yourselves as mere parents, but as the equivalent of certified, college-degreed teachers:

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 8:10pm

I even gave an example. If we were homeschooling Dylan, it would have been made part of the studies for the day. And I would have taken his question and expanded on it into a lesson. Instead it was just another teachable momment in the daily life of an 8 yo.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Tue, 04-04-2006 - 8:27pm

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What a most fortunate coincidence that your DD's teacher recently spoke to you on the very same subject we are debating. And she not surprisingly is most supportive of your and your husband's daily assistance with your DD's use of kits and paper projects and other child-led hobbies. I can't imagine a teacher weighing in one way or the other on a child's choice of engaging in rock polishing and origami.

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 7:35am

"AHA!!!! That's it!
You are adamant about your "homeschooling" your dd because you want to distinguish yourself (make yourself look BETTER) than the other moms here."

Why do you think that homeschooling makes dh and I look better?

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 7:39am

"So are you mistaken or wrong?"

That would be neither.

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