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| bio | website | markmroden.com |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 2 months |
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Jun 14 |
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What should I be teaching my two year old? @Swati-- but he's also making the implication that making a choice other than the one he made is fraught with guilt, and so preschools attempt to assuage that guilt with curricula. And I don't agree with his assertion that family > daycare in the case of our family; when our son has stayed home for extended periods of time, he gets bored with us and the whole situation became a discipline nightmare very quickly. At daycare, he has the friends and social interaction he needs to be content. |
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Jun 12 |
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What should I be teaching my two year old? Interesting. You say daycare is to assuage guilt, and yet it does all the things you list in your bullet list. Tell me, how would you have two working parents do these things with a toddler? Also, the link you gave is about Head Start, not preschool in general, so not particularly relevant. |
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Jun 11 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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Jun 8 |
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What should I be teaching my two year old? @Swati-- no problem, glad to be a help. One thing more I'll add is that if you choose to send her to a preschool, the selection process can be daunting. My wife (who is also a teacher, it runs in her family) visited upwards of 15 schools before she selected this one. |
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Jun 8 |
answered | What should I be teaching my two year old? |
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Jun 5 |
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What do we do to minimize negative impact to our child when we (the parents) argue? made sure that the 3rd response is tongue in cheek, and added @Kith's statement about taking sides |
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Jun 5 |
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What do we do to minimize negative impact to our child when we (the parents) argue? @kalingga-- that article is more tongue-in-cheek than anything, and I've edited my answer to reflect that. It's more that they seem to argue over the littlest things, all the time, every day. But hey, it also seems to work for them, as (last time I've checked) they've been together for 15+ years and he's gotten some books out of it (amazon.com/s/…) |
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Jun 4 |
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What do we do to minimize negative impact to our child when we (the parents) argue? @Kith-- absolutely, completely true. |
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Jun 4 |
answered | What do we do to minimize negative impact to our child when we (the parents) argue? |
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Jun 1 |
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How to avoid corporal punishment? @Kith-- a solid strategy. Our eldest is still a bit too young; he's very rough with his younger sister without meaning too. Hopefully, once he learns a bit more delicacy, we can do something like what you've got going there. |
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May 30 |
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How can I encourage my 5-year-old to learn to swim? How well do you swim? Could you teach him? Are you strong enough to take him into the water yourself? Could you tread water with him holding on to your neck? |
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May 30 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 27 |
answered | How to avoid corporal punishment? |
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May 27 |
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What are the objective arguments against immunizations for infants and children? @amcnabb-- KeithS argues that the active ingredients in vaccines trigger an immune response, and this immune response in susceptible children causes an autoimmune response. This autoimmune response then causes autism by attacking certain brain cells. The argument continues that any foreign agent that triggers an immune response will cause autism through the same mechanism. The article itself does not contain the word 'vaccine' though, and KeithS' argument seems to be a very broad interpretation of autoimmune disorders; but they are triggered by foreign agents, so it's not necessarily wrong. |
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May 26 |
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Vaccine reactions Plus, I would never wish polio on anyone, especially just because their parents don't understand the threat. I've known people who got polio just before the vaccine came out, and the disease was utterly devastating to them and their families. |
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May 26 |
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Vaccine reactions I want to downvote this answer for its general ignorance and social irresponsibility (ie, putting immuno-compromised kids at risk because the poster does not understand the science), but I don't want this post to disappear due to massive numbers of downvotes. People who don't vaccinate are putting their own and other kids at risk; those who don't believe or understand this should start looking at Herd Immunity (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity) |
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May 25 |
answered | How do you handle unsupervised, poorly behaved children in public play areas? |
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May 22 |
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What is your setup in a car for kids to watch kids movies or shows? (2 kids, separate programs) Ah. Where I live, the cost difference between the dvd player + mount + charger/electrical attachment and the iPad isn't that significantly different, and the benefit of not having scratchable, destroyable DVDs is pretty significant. |
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May 21 |
answered | What is your setup in a car for kids to watch kids movies or shows? (2 kids, separate programs) |
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May 21 |
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How old is old enough for a child to have their ears pierced? @tomjedrz-- +1. To me, this is a cultural question; I think that if you asked/told a lot of the Latino parents around here not to pierce their child's ears, they would think that you're crazy (babycenter.com/0_piercing-your-newborn-babys-ears_10341560.bc). After all, she should celebrate being a girl. It's almost at the level of circumcision-- I don't agree with it, but I don't think it's a human rights violation, and to suggest that either action is really diminishes real human rights violations. |
