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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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:44pm

I think it relates to things like where is your child getting his/her primary education? I know a couple with a child in the first grade. The kid goes to public school for art and P.E. and to use the media center. Period. All the rest of the education takes place off-site. In that case, I think the parents are selectively using the public school as part of a non-traditional schooling program -- they are mostly homeschooling and supplementing their parent-provided education with a few hours a week of traditional school.

With one of my kids, he goes to public school the regular amount of time and then spends an additional four hours a week in two homeschool co-op classes plus he participates in an orchestra class three hours a week at the university, and he takes a private piano lesson one half hour a week. Since he is mostly traditionally-schooled, we consider him to be a public school kid, not a homeschooled/unschooled child.

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:44pm

That question, that unanswered question is older than dirt.


PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:48pm

i admit that i wasn't following this homeschool thread too much......and what i understood it to mean is exactly what i wrote jlk. there are *technical* homeschoolers in public schools (iowa i know. maybe where hk lives?). they are allowed to open enroll and basically pick and chose their curriculum. it's a twisted form of education imo but it certainly doesn't mean it doesn't exist either.

i'm surprised educators like sabina haven't seen this. maybe it's just limited in certain areas...........i tried to google a link for this thread but only found a pdf application for the necessary open enrollment process.

 

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:49pm

"Yes, I did state that enrichment and homeschooling are not the same."

So which do you do then? Enrichment or homeschooling?

"Now I understand that every single parent in my whole town is actually homeschooling, including me."

Why do you think that parenting = homeschooling?

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:51pm

"Not knowing when to quit?"

Not knowing when to quit lying?

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:51pm
A topic you switch to when trying to change the subject?
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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:57pm

>>Why do you think that parenting = homeschooling?<<

That's an easy one. Because what YOU are describing as "homeschooling" would be called parenting by people who use regular definitions for words, rather than definitions they make up.

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 1:59pm

"Pretty much OT there, but how do I know if you believe in God or not?"

This is exactly my point here.

You don't know if I believe in God or not, just as you don't know if I homeschool or not.

As, clearly not everyone agrees on the definition of every "common" term. Hence the reason why semantics and interpretation are often an issue, particularly wrt debate. As I have stated on many ocassions, IMHO, there is a certain degree of subjectivity and/or personal interpretation involved here, which often tends to be the underlying source of the more heated debates.

Again, does everyone accept the same defintion wrt the following terms/concepts/ideas:

God, love, evil, sin, truth, spirituality, art, beauty, murder, morals, morality, immorality, marriage, evolution, expensive, funny, appropriate, inappropriate, tasteful, distasteful, conformity, nonconformity, etc, etc, etc?

Likewise does everyone accept the definitions/distinctions/differences between the following:

daycare vs. school, daycare vs. preschool, toddlers vs. preschool aged children, dcp's vs. teachers, breastfeeding vs. ebm via bottle feeding, full day preschool vs. full time preschool, cribs vs. cages, othercare vs. parental and extended family care, homeschooling vs. parenting, SAHM, WOHM, PTWOHM, private school vs. paraochial school, etc, etc, etc?

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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 2:01pm
we do not allow that at the elementary level because it would be too disruptive to the classroom but we do allow it in the upper grades. but that is not the case with hk, her daughter is enrolled in public school just as 99% of other kids are and her parents do extra, special things with her after school, on weekends and during the summer and she calls it homeschooling. she is not affilliated with any homeschooling group or enrolled in any homeschooling/public schooling whatever. basically she is doing what i do, and what i assume you do as a good parent and calling it homeschooling.
Jennie
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Wed, 04-05-2006 - 2:01pm
So why don't you say, "Under my own definition, I homeschool.

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