Day Care

[VaticanAssassin]

We put my little one in DC two days a week a few months ago. I had bought in to the whole socialization, education and exposure to colds to build tolerance arguments.

The more I read about it the more it seems those arguments are pure fantasy created as justification for having to put your child in to day care, rather than scientific facts.

I get it. Some do not have a choice. We live in a world where dual income is the norm and family is located farther and farther away.

But the real facts suggest the only thing kids learn from other kids is negative behavior. Kids in day care are more likely to be aggressive, defiant, impulsive and it can lead to poor academic and social skills.

The only real upside. Kids in daycare tend to have a increased vocabulary in the early years.

So fuck daycare!!!

and fuck the weekly notices that X bacteria/virus is going around!!!

(end rant)

 

[raindancer]

Put your kids in preschool, not daycare.
I can give you all the early child education and child development information you need. How? I was a preschool teacher for five years. Montesorri or Creative Curriculum based are what I recommend.

 

[Saint Peter]

Kids are the devil.

 

[raindancer]

Kids are the devil.

Truth. They herniated three of my lumbar discs.

 

[Saint Peter]

Truth. They herniated three of my lumbar discs.

And they smell bad.


Fuck that.

 

[pink]

My daughter, when she was little, wasn't put in preschool or daycare. I was extremely lucky, my mother watched her until all day elementary school.


She struggled with school until middle school and then shot off in her studies and I mean shot off. High School grades were very good, she took some college classes. I was so proud.


College, she graduated cum laude, I cried. To see your child excel like that, it was beyond my wildest dreams to know she was going to excel in life..


I should mention, her Dad's side of the family is very smart. Her Grandfather was so smart, he was a little weird.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Put your kids in preschool, not daycare.
I can give you all the early child education and child development information you need. How? I was a preschool teacher for five years. Montesorri or Creative Curriculum based are what I recommend.

My wife actually just ordered a bunch of material from their site.
(I also meant pre-school)

Kids are the devil.

That's my point!! Plus they are some germy snotty little fucks!!!

 

[Disgustipated]

Kids are the devil.

Just ask Ish.

 

[Disgustipated]

Oh, and it's a shame you hate me- I gots all the Montessori info you could possibly ever needed.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Hate?

Someone sure has a high opinion of himself. Good for him.

 

[Bookishleigh]

I believe every child is different. As a parent to an only child who was fiercely clingy to me I believe putting my child in preschool WAS advantageous. I was never going to homeschool my child and at least with preschool he was only there a limited amount of time (unlike kindergarten which is full time here). I am confident I made the right choice as he enjoyed going after the initial adjustment phase.

I also did Montessori - it wasn't that I initially sought out that style of school; it just happened to be the one I liked most.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

I believe every child is different. As a parent to an only child who was fiercely clingy to me I believe putting my child in preschool WAS advantageous. I was never going to homeschool my child and at least with preschool he was only there a limited amount of time (unlike kindergarten which is full time here). I am confident I made the right choice as he enjoyed going after the initial adjustment phase.

I also did Montessori - it wasn't that I initially sought out that style of school; it just happened to be the one I liked most.

I agree every child is different. I by no means think pre school is evil and get it is needed sometimes.

What I have issue with is the parents that try to make other parents feel guilty pushing their socialization bullshit and pre school is great. Especially now knowing the science shows the exact opposite.

 

[Saint Peter]

Read to the little fuckers. Do not let cartoons and video games teach them about life. Encourage them to use their hands and imaginations.

And keep them off the smack.

 

[RoryN]

Anyone else expect the first post of this thread to read:

"What's it like? Will they have my favorite toys?"

 

[Disgustipated]

I believe every child is different. As a parent to an only child who was fiercely clingy to me I believe putting my child in preschool WAS advantageous. I was never going to homeschool my child and at least with preschool he was only there a limited amount of time (unlike kindergarten which is full time here). I am confident I made the right choice as he enjoyed going after the initial adjustment phase.

I also did Montessori - it wasn't that I initially sought out that style of school; it just happened to be the one I liked most.

That's because your child is different.

 

[Ishmael]

We put my little one in DC two days a week a few months ago. I had bought in to the whole socialization, education and exposure to colds to build tolerance arguments.

The more I read about it the more it seems those arguments are pure fantasy created as justification for having to put your child in to day care, rather than scientific facts.

I get it. Some do not have a choice. We live in a world where dual income is the norm and family is located farther and farther away.

But the real facts suggest the only thing kids learn from other kids is negative behavior. Kids in day care are more likely to be aggressive, defiant, impulsive and it can lead to poor academic and social skills.

The only real upside. Kids in daycare tend to have a increased vocabulary in the early years.

So fuck daycare!!!

and fuck the weekly notices that X bacteria/virus is going around!!!

(end rant)

Read "The Lord of the Flies" and then get back to me as to how kids learning from kids is a good thing.

Ishmael

 

[RoryN]

Read "The Lord of the Flies" and then get back to me as to how kids learning from kids is a good thing.

Ishmael

1. What a brain-dead comparison.
2. That's what you got out of that book?

Figures.

These are the moments when paying off my student loans doesn't hurt so much...

 

[yossi]

Read to the little fuckers. Do not let cartoons and video games teach them about life. Encourage them to use their hands and imaginations.

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of my father reading us the Lord of the Rings; sitting on the stairs waiting for the bus to come pick us up for school, on the edge of my seat, worrying the bus would come before we heard the end of Sam's battle with Shelob.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Rent-A-Nanny

 

[thør]

You might be able to enroll the kids in a child labor sweat shop. At least, they'll learn a skill.

 

[Misshotndeep]

It is a necessary evil in a society where both parents are expected to work, a generation past their expiration date refused to retire and more and more people are having more than one child. The cost of daycare is steadily rising as the workers need to be payed a living wage and put their kid in day care to care for others kids. It's a vicious cycle! (said in bad scotty accent)

 

[Conager]

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of my father reading us the Lord of the Rings; sitting on the stairs waiting for the bus to come pick us up school, on the edge of my seat, worrying the bus would come before we heard the end of Sam's battle with Shelob.

That's a nice memory. I remember my sister teaching me to read.

All of my kids loved being read to and reading until they got old enough that the kids books were boring. I was so thankful when Harry Potter came along because it rejuvenated their love of reading.

My youngest daughter gained speech late, but love being read to. She always knew when I altered the story as I went along. I am bought out a huge stack of really beat up books from a daycare center going out of business. The idea was that it wouldn't matter if she tore a page or colored on one or whatever. Interestingly, she was always very careful with them beat up as they were.

I was having trouble finding anything that she wanted to read or be read to and remember Beverly Cleary. She like The Runaway Ralph books. I need to find another series of books.