….leave those kids alone!
NO, I do NOT find Biden’s plan to take everybody’s kids and begin indoctrinating them in government- run schools at age 3 at ALL palatable. Not. At. ALL.
Have the people pushing this ever SEEN a three-year old (I mean within living memory, which leaves Unca Joe out)?
Here’s what that demographic wants: MOMMY!!!!
I read somewhere that tyranny = taking a fluid situation and making it static. Okay yeah, some people do, for various reasons, put their kids in “nursery school” for two-three hours a day for varying stints even as young as two. But that’s their choice, and they can monitor the child to see how it’s going.
I was horrified to hear people even on our side saying that free Pre-K, if alone among The items Biden mouthed on Wednesday, wasn’t a bad idea.
After what we’ve seen of public school teachers over the last year, snarking out their contempt for parents , singing little ditties about the devoutly held catechism of critical race theory?
No. No. NO. It will be like the nurseries in Brave New World. If you haven’t read that, I will venture to tell you: now, you MUST.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Amen. Preach it, Hypatia!
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They’ve already started at 5, Hyp; what’s a couple more years? -irony alert- Besides, the brain isn’t developed enough then for that shtuff to stick. (Remember how well Head Start worked?) Be not totally vexed….Don’t use public schools/daycare….Period.
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Nanda’s right. Head Start never worked because the Dems continue to think they can replace the family. This is why the underprivileged lose any gains they make over the schoolyear during the summer months. No parents to read them bedtime stories, send them to camps to learn music/arts or in my case, no mother who focuses on teaching them to read before kindergarten.
It’s unbelievable how absolutely none of the responsibility for any aspect of child rearing is placed upon the parents. Of course, I assume this is yet another effort to empower the govt and create dependence. 😦
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“It’s unbelievable how absolutely none of the responsibility for any aspect of child rearing is placed upon the parents.”
Yes madam. The Deep State does not want parents involvement in childhood education and indoctrination.
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Reading to kiddos is vital early on; teaching them *to read* before kindergarten may or may not “take” – developmentally. Socialization is what kindergarten is *for*. Let’s not rush it….They’re worth the time it takes.
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The power of reading the written word is important and kids understand more than one would think. If given the proper guidance, few children look upon this as “pressure” because usually curiosity overtakes apprehension.
My mother was a grade school teacher and understood that reading provided the greatest “socialization” skills of all. I remember thinking I could go anywhere and meet all types of new people through books. It was exhilarating but also got me into some trouble. My earliest heroine was “Harriet the Spy” and needless to say, my attempt to imitate her behavior caused a few problems. 🙂
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True enough, Liz, I was reading at 2 – because I was around readers – but, if parents make it a ‘teaching moment’, as I’ve seen some do, it can be a real turn-off. I never experienced Harriet the Spy. She sounds like fun. :-).
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At 2!!! Wow!
Teaching moments are ok in my opinion but I didn’t need to be pressured. I rcvd high demerits for placing a novel inside my math book in first grade because I was bored with learning multiplication tables. Ironically, I grew up to a career in business and was rewarded for my “financial acumen.”
I credit English majors everywhere for the ability to analyze and summarize in a cogent manner; that skill-set allows one to succeed in almost every career path.
P.S. Google “Harriet” because I still occasionally read it. There were some good life lessons in that book. 🙂
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Thank heaven for little girls.
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Without them, what would little boys do? 😀
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Whose hair would we pull?
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Don’t forget about ‘cooties’ ST.
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As a recovered English major, Liz, I can attest to the usefulness of its organizational skills-development. Early reading was, and is, a gift. Several family members were elementary and high-school teachers/live-in nannies, avid readers…For me, it was a survival skill/developmental tool. Books were, and still are favorite gifts. I’ll check “Harriet” out. 🙂
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Pls do and let me know what you think.
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Harriet’s imagination and derring-do are every bit a match for Eloise, Liz. I can see why both were inspiring and appealing. They could’ve joined Mrs. Pollifax any day. I see there was a film (1996), but I’ll bet Hollywood botched it. Thanks for the tip!
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Nanda, you mentioned my other favorite, Eloise, who was responsible for my lifelong dream to live in NYC. After reading that series, I kept haranguing my parents to buy an apt in NYC so I could have lunch at the Plaza everyday. 🙂 (Hey, you gotta dream big!)
In the meantime, I bought a large notepad and went skulking through the neighborhood, spying on people until I got caught by a very angry neighbor who did not appreciate me peering through his living room window for two days. My parents were perplexed by my behavior until they took a look at my book collection…
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I LOVE this, Liz! I picture you sitting silent and rigid under the neighbor’s accusations, determined to reveal nothing…..
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We now know that the quality and intensity that a child receives in his/her first years of life are the greatest predictor of their future ability to cope and thrive in this competitive world of ours. While that loving and caring role is most typically given, and expected of, the mother, it is possible for a father to do the same. What we do not do, yet, as a society, is either make it easy, affordable, or possible for a mother and/or a father to be so present in a child’s life. Nor do we make daycare either good enough or affordable enough as a backstop. Particularly in the middle income and poorer socio-economic strata. Until we realise as a society that the single most important years of a child’s life are the first two, and the fact that we are blowing it is showing up in so many disorders, ADD, OCD, etc, the more dysfunctional we will become.
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I really don’t think men are wired that way. I’m suspicious of any man who wants to hang out with the young ‘uns , like cub scouts (if they still,exist) unless his own kid is involved.
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I’ll add Hyp that ADD is the most over diagnosed “disorder” on the face of the planet. I am particularly outraged that testosterone has been labeled as some kind of toxic hormone and must be suppressed. My youngest (and admittedly favorite) nephew was diagnosed with this because he’s an aggressive boy- not a bully or a fighter- but was simply bored with the classroom.
In the meantime, he attended a Big Ten school where he was a star forward on the hockey team and went on to become a successful trader in the Chicago market where testosterone is most certainly a necessary asset.
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Although I know I shouldn’t agree with you regarding male and female wiring, I am biased towards agreeing with you that women are just more sympathetic caregivers. Whether that is genetic, environmental, or both, it has certainly been true in my own life. It is also what draws me to women over and over, is that a woman provides something that I can’t get anywhere else.
Regarding the comment on ADD, there is quite possibly an over diagnosis in the US in particular. This is much less true in Europe. That said, over-diagnosis does not explain the rise in real cases. The underlying issue is that our society is increasingly hostile to the necessary nurturing that raising healthy children requires. I had the luxury along with my S.O. of taking 10 years off from work to have and raise our children, and I am confident that the focus and attention we were able to place on them, is why they are growing into such healthy-seeming young adults. My career stopped dead in its tracks, but I wouldn’t trade that time for anything.
I know it is wrong of me to think that motherhood is the highest calling of all, but I can’t help but feeling it for our species, for our planet, for myself, it is the ultimate healing balm, the ultimate healthy growth balm.
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“I know it is wrong of me to think that motherhood is the highest calling of all, but I can’t help but feeling it for our species, for our planet, for myself, it is the ultimate healing balm, the ultimate healthy growth balm.”
Amen! It is not wrong at all for you to think that motherhood is the highest calling. Motherhood is definitely the highest calling! And I say that as someone who will never be a mother. Thank you for being a voice of sanity 🙂
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“Although I know I shouldn’t agree with you regarding male and female wiring, I am biased towards agreeing with you that women are just more sympathetic caregivers.”
What is that supposed to mean? Of course men and women are wired differently; it’s called XX and XY chromosomes and estrogen vs. testosterone dominance.
That is defined as science.
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Wired differently in terms of nurturing, and all that goes with child bearing and rearing – whether or not one chooses to use it for that purpose: That’s science, too, isn’t it?
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P. S.Orwell”s _Brave New World_ *is* satire that doesn’t *have* to happen, right?
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