Posted on 12/20/2023 4:03:23 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Piaget was an important author used by most if not all US Education departments. Then, not now. He his now considered passe, but his theories have never been disproven.
I’m an Ophthalmologist.
For about the past 7-8 years, parents who come in for exam hand their kid a cell phone.
Except one family. 5 kids, home schooled and all reading books when they come to the office. Love it!
I gave up my career to become a stay at home mom for several years. It was worth it MAJOR!
Kept my kids off the computer when it was becoming popular except I bought my son a chess program.
He ended up with a PhD in A.I. and recently wrote a paper about the need for morality in his field.
My daughter’s doing her Pediatric Residency.
I’m glad I wasn’t raised in day care centers.
You are so right.
I see it all the time. My ex is a prime example - he blames his addiction, but I saw it before he started drinking. He was incapable of maturation, and was stuck in his politocal and cultural belief system (Leftism).
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I was never a SAHM b/c I was divorced and received no child support. We bought a house in the “hood” then I had saved up enough money to buy in a nice rural village. Parents actually showed up for Parent-Teacher night unlike the urban schools. Tired of the house being broken into (attempted) while my kids were at home and I was at my second job.
I did buy my kids a Sega game set and Nintendo with chess but would confiscate the power cord when they fought (they were latch key kids). My son is married, in the Air Force and is working on a masters in electrical engineering, currently deployed in Saudi Arabia with one 2.5 yr old daughter.
Older daughter is in retail management and happily married for 20 years.
Never in trouble with the law and are productive citizens.
You’ll be “dead’ for a while, then you’ll reincarnate, as everyone else does, to come back and help clean up the mess.
Nah. Once the Gods of the Copybook Headings reduce our delusions to rubble - and it will happen rather all at once - it will take the survivors that barbarous state less than a generation to rediscover the older, more enduring foundations of civilization.
Me neither. I just have to look at husband’s leftist ex wife and three now grown children who were parentally alienated from their father.
The whole town of 5,000 is littered with “strong, independent (not including hefty child/spousal support checks), feminist soccer moms. The school district, not surprisingly, has one of the highest “special education” enrollment of the entire county. IEPs abound! Yet they do no good as they are a smokescreen for lack of parenting/discipline in most cases.
IEPs won’t see that the child gets to school on time if at all or make sure the child does his homework, classwork, studies. IEPs don’t stop the child from having 24/7 screen time and eating a steady diet of junk/fast food while getting no exercise/outdoor time.
And I pray I don’t end up in adult day care.
Read later.
Sounds like you set a great example!
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