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- From: llf@alice.att.com (alice!llf)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Daycare vs. Nanny; FT vs. PT for an Infant
- Message-ID: <24507@alice.att.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 21:57:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24507
- References: <1992Dec23.193436.16434@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <168CA869E.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
- Reply-To: llf@alice.UUCP (alice!llf)
- Organization: New Jersey State Home for Bewildered Kittens
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- In article <168CA869E.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU> BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Stephanie Edelmann) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.193436.16434@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- >amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Amy Moseley Rupp) writes:
- >>[stuff deleted]
- >>
- >>However, I'm sure at SOME age the stimulation of other children
- >>wins out over staying at home with a nanny. What's that age?
- >>
- >This is not my own personal experience, just an opinion I have
- >because I've watched other children. (Since I can't afford a
- >... that a daycare setting is the better arrangement at about 2-3 years of
- >age. A friend of mine's son has had a nanny for his sone who is now
- >3.5. He tried getting him into daycare recently because the boy is
-
- I suspect that a great deal of this depends on your particular child and the
- other children and they care arrangement you make.
-
- Our child went to family based care at 7 months (one mother watching a total
- of 2 kids, our 7 month old and her own 2.5 year old, plus her older kids
- after elementary school let out). After several weeks of
- loud protest at not being carried around by mommy all the time, she settled
- in very nicely, and very clearly benefited within weeks of being there.
- (learning to watch other kids, learning to take turns, learning to share,
- learning to play cooperatively, and wanting to do anything that the older kids
- did) One of my favorite memories is of our not yet mobile 9 month old racing
- around in a walker playing free form chase with the 2.75 year old. We never
- did figure out the rules to that game, but they clearly had a wonderful time.
- Currently, we have never seen a case where our toddler has been unwilling to
- share toys or take turns.
-
- So at least in one experience, somewhere around 6 to 8 months was about right.
- Lynda
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