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- From: zippy@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (steven.s.albert)
- Subject: nursery school questions
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:53:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.185351.23228@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- I'm just looking for some opinions. We're looking into nursery
- schools for Billy (for next September, I can't believe how early
- you have to start this!). Anyhow, we had thought we'd start out
- with 2 mornings a week because we're really just looking to give
- Billy an exposure to other kids in a group setting (without us
- around - currently he's with Mary or me all day). He's currently
- in a pre-nursery program 1 day a week. After an initial tough
- adjustment, he seems to be doing pretty well there (and is quite
- proud of his "art projects", which now decorate our refrigerator :-)).
-
- Now the question. We have since heard and read that 2 days
- a week is not a good thing because of the lack of continuity and
- that 3 days a week is much better (2.5 hours/day). I'm just looking
- for comments or experiences with nursery schools. Billy will be 3.5
- then, so I know he'll be quite different emotionally and maturity-wise.
- Right now, he's very shy and tends to hang back by himself when he's in
- a group setting and we didn't want to traumatize him by putting him into
- a situation that he's not equipped to handle. He also has some other
- activities that he enjoys that we want to continue him in and a 3 day
- nursery program would mean he'd be busy every day of the week. Advice?
- Anecdotes?
-
- I don't know about him, but *I* feel the stress! Tying this into the
- "growing up" thread, how many of you find that your children have grown
- up faster than your ability to cope (i.e. you've finally figured out how
- to deal with the stage that just ended :-))? My first inclination is to
- protect him from everything and it takes all of my willpower to let
- him experience some things firsthand...(his personality is very close
- to mine so I can make some pretty good guesses about what's in store
- for him as he grows up).
-
- Steve Albert (Billy's dad [29 months])
- ssa@usl.com
-