Posted on 03/26/2007 2:41:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
So they grow up to be ARTICULATE, disruptive brats. :)
Ping for reference. Substitute teachers are as aware of diruptive children as anyone on the planet.
He missed traditional day care so he is a less boisterous, articulate disruptive.
Just shows t' go ya' that the same results will occur outside of day care if the same socialist values exist in a 'home' setting.
LOL!!! Perhaps a reason why these kids are disruptive is because they're bored. I've got a five year old that will enter kindergarten in August. He can write his name, and was reading the letters to me from the TV screen last night.
It was pretty funny, because he got mad at me when the screen changed (there was a delay in the On-Demand, and Nathan was reading the letters while waiting for the next batch of movies to display).
I noticed TBN was showing the story of Joseph, and I was pretty impressed with the multitude and depth of the questions he was asking.
I can see disruptions from the "one size fits all" public school mentality. You place a kid like my Nate, who's basically lived with 4 adults his entire life (his older siblings are now 18 and 20), in a class with less advanced children, and he's going to get bored.
We'll be looking for more challenging learning environments for him. However, our school district has a good handle on it.
Didn't the University of Wisconsin publish a study in 2000 that stated much of the same? If I remember correctly, it was quite the buzz for a few days, then the women's lib groups started to bring out their experts to quickly repudiate it and it just went away.
Oddly, most of these articulate disruptive brats still only use 4-letter words to express themselves.
It is vital to the left to keep trying to convince the public that mothers and fathers are not important and that a village can better raise a child.
I just finished reading "Generation ME" by Jean Twenge (the book got some major press a few weeks back in a story about her research into increasing narcissism among college students). She makes sense in the first few chapters, and even suggests that the increasing epidemic of ADD among kids is the obvious result of poor parenting by GenME's, but in the latter chapters she goes off the deep feminist end, trashing all studies such as this and the one you mentioned, and fiercely advocating for state-sponsored daycare and public pre-preschools so all those highly-educated womyn with high-powered positions can reproduce and drop the kids into the taxpayers' lap. She also advocates for extended maternity leave -- but no so eloquently, since, in her words, "you might find yourself cooped up with young children every day and let's face it -- who is really prepared for that?"
The obvious question, of course, is: why have kids if you don't want to be to be bothered raising them?
And the Dems will still insist on "free" schooling from birth through age 22. Why?
(Hint: School is not about learning.)
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I find it interesting that they had to do a study, but as pointed out in the article, they tried not to come to this conclusion.
For years I've felt there are so many brats and bullies because they had to fight for attention and for personal space in a day care setting.
Good sarcastic point.
Our son had no daycare or preschool before kindergarten. And despite people telling us he needed prep for "socialization" purposes, he is very well behaved in class. Educators really devalue the importance of a child's contact and emotional development with their parents.
Didn't Obama Al Husseini have Muslim daycare?
Did he have separation anxiety when he finally went to school? Our 3 year old son does not like to be out of our presence for more than a few minutes although he is otherwise happy and healthy (knock on wood). I've been wondering how he will be able to transition to go to school.
As do too many parents.
I grew up before the daycare era. But I had two parents with professional jobs at a time when this was uncommon. There were times when I was disruptive in class. That these things are connected is entirely believable.
My daughter had no pre-school. She walked into kindergarten, and didn't even bother saying good-bye to Mommy. *I* was the one who was traumatized. :)
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