Who has influenced your sah/woh

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Who has influenced your sah/woh
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Thu, 02-09-2006 - 2:39pm

opinion to DIFFER. What I mean is--is there anyone on this board or in real life whose opinion/reasoning/debating/facts started to make your thinking more to the middle? As in if you thought sah or woh was best & then after some discussion/thought, you began to think that whatever is best for each family--really there is no one best way, etc.

We just really needed a new thread here!!!!!!!!

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:01pm
Of course, you're right. But children receive the short end of the stick in this country in many ways. Many of them are cared for by their parents and/or other family members.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:03pm

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That's why I prefer to focus on what kids demonstrably need rather than what parents consider ideal on the basis of their unique judgments, which may be based on nothing more than custom, bias, prejudice, anything and everything.

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:04pm
I disagree; the problem is that it's an empty question to begin with to ask which is better. The fact is that they are different.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:05pm
Well said.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:07pm
Great, but the claim was that parental care is "more ideal" than othercare. For everybody.
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Registered: 11-18-2005
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:15pm

When would othercare be "more ideal" that a parent? I can see it being an adequate substitute when a parent is working but more ideal? How?

I think my dds teachers are adequate and even good for my children. However, I do not see them being in their care more ideal than being with me. Maybe I am misunderstanding the statement.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:18pm
See my post 385 in this thread.

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:20pm
That's right, you're misunderstanding. The claim was that parental care is "more ideal". My counterclaim is that no, it is not. Between parental care and othercare, I wouldn't say either is "more ideal". I would say they're different.
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Registered: 01-06-2006
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:27pm
So, where does it turn black and why?
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Registered: 01-13-2006
Mon, 02-13-2006 - 4:36pm
we have playdates with kids in dc all the time, i just go to the daycare and pick them up. as to zoos, museums, aquariums, etc.... we have always saved those for weekend activities so we could do them as a family. my actually put my older daughter in a daycare one summer to take advantage of thier field trip schedule, each week they went on these great field trips to places i had no desire to go but were great learning expereinces for her.
Jennie

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