16 Responses to “Preschool to Grade 4”

1. Trisha says on March 16th, 2008 at 9:42 pm :
   

   If I ran a daycare, I would just tape the kids to the wall and go get lunch.

2. Raelene says on March 16th, 2008 at 10:32 pm :
   

   “The effect was slight, and well within the normal range for healthy children, the researchers found.”. This title is bullshit. Talk about blowing this out of proportion

3. Randall says on March 16th, 2008 at 11:23 pm :
   

   Interesting. Although I always thought daycare was a good thing because it socialized the kid before they actually got into a school setting. Obviously this can’t be a blanket statement, as there are always numerous factors that go into a child’s development, but it will be interesting to see what happens to my nephew when he gets to 5th grade. Hopefully I’ll remember this article. heh.

4. Denton says on March 17th, 2008 at 12:13 am :
   

   The study is flawed and biased. The fact they define a non-parental caregiver/Daycare provider as anyone OTHER than the Mother outright discredits the Dad as a parental equal. As a dad this pisses me off. When I’m not working outside the home, I’m caring for my daughter. My daughter DOES attend daycare. While we both nurture, we also both discipline her as well. A study needs to be done on how Single Parent households with a child in daycare vs. a Two Parent household with a child in daycare. I’d imagine there would be differences on how the child behaves in 6th grade. Then let’s take into account the ineptitude of many teachers when they are being challenged by a child who’s tired of having a dumbed down education.

5. Bennie says on March 17th, 2008 at 1:04 am :
   

   Granted that the study is flawed, if there is any shred of truth in the findings whatsoever, I believe they can be attributed to the fact that many daycares (early childhood education center, whatever you want to call it) have a more progressive approach to the learning environment than schools. Children have much more freedom of movement, speech, and action in a daycare than they do in a traditional school. Schools are very rigid institutions that have changed very little in the past 100 years or so. So when a child moves from a progressive daycare environment to a rigid school environment, there are problems to work out, new boundaries and rules for the child to learn.See… the daycare has a financial incentive to create a positive learning environment for my child. That’s what I pay for and I expect nothing less. What incentive does the school have to teach my child? The altruistic nature of a few good teachers? The school system desperately needs fixed before we attack the inadequacies of daycare. The school system impacts all children, not just those whose parents are awesome enough to buy jet skis.

6. Peace says on March 17th, 2008 at 1:54 am :
   

   From reading these comments, it’s clear that if you don’t have a trust fund and aren’t able to spend 24 hours a day with your child he will become Jeffrey Dahmer.Huh. Who knew?

7. Dottie says on March 17th, 2008 at 2:45 am :
   

   I wonder if this applies solely to children in an outside childcare environment or also to children being cared for in their own home by nannies.

8. Darrin says on March 17th, 2008 at 3:36 am :
   

   I’d disagree with this story to an extent. Day Care is not always going to result in bad behavior with children; I know I went to ‘kindergarten and pre-school’ ; yet , as I aged I did not become more difficult to control.Perhaps it was the fact that it was a catholic school system where you feared getting a beating. I dunno

9. Shaniqua says on March 17th, 2008 at 4:26 am :
   

   “On the positive side, they also found that time spent in high-quality day care centers was correlated with higher vocabulary scores through elementary school.”That’s why the kids act up, they are bored as heck in the classroom while the teacher teaches to the tests so they act out. Good for them, let the teacher do the job and TEACH!

10. Landon says on March 17th, 2008 at 5:17 am :
    

    Wait… but I thought Hillary said it took a village. You mean we actually need a functional family to raise a child?

11. Lea says on March 17th, 2008 at 6:07 am :
    

    Hmm, that’s funny, I went through day-care and I turned out great.The way you make kids behave is discipline. You can’t make them behave being their “best friend”. Sometimes you have to crack them on the rump to set them straight.But I guess discipline and direction are on the outs these days, we have to use Ridilin and psychotherapy to help them find their way, like that’s supposed to work or something.

12. Viola says on March 17th, 2008 at 6:58 am :
    

    I was in daycare, and I’ve never had “problem behaviors” or any of that BS. Fuck you guys!

13. Hettie says on March 17th, 2008 at 7:48 am :
    

    You know, the study does say that being in day care improves the vocabulary of the children.If they get pissy later on, they’ll be able to tell you to go pound sand in much more entertaining ways than their home-cared mates.

14. Kam says on March 17th, 2008 at 8:39 am :
    

    It’s amazing we have to study this to figure it out. When you put a large number of children together they interact with each other. When they’re together most of the day they will learn the most from the ones they are interacting with the most. Remember the saying, “One bad apple spoils the bunch.” It is not possible for children to learn important social and behavioral skills from other children, but rather from responsible adults. One adult for every 10-30 children is not appropriate to educate the children adequately in any regard, especially behaviorally. The influence of other children will simply overshadow the adult.

15. Sharmaine says on March 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am :
    

    The Magic 8-Ball says: “ask again later, data inconclusive …”Like anything else, there’s good and bad. Put your kid in a really good daycare situation and he or she will benefit. Put your kid in a crap ass daycare and he or she will suffer.Does money play a part in this? Well, duh …