🚀 go-pugleaf

You might want to know, that hysterical bad reporting that came out a couple
of weeks ago about the "facts" about day care and aggresive children has
been generally discredited in intelligent circles, which means the news
media has moved on and can't be bothered fixing the headlines or reporting
any truth that won't pander to the lowest common denominator.

mapi

"Craig Becker" <jlpicard@serv1.jump.net> wrote in message
news:9cv3n9$rvp$1@news.jump.net...
> First off, for some reason I can't access the article anymore,
> but Lyn: yes, I _am_ Travid III, and if you're a cute hirsute
> Jewish woman I'd love to get together sometime and tell you
> how Jesus and Rush Limbaugh changed my life . . . <g> *
>
> Mapi, I really wasn't trying to be holier than thou -- it just
> struck me that someone who says
>
> > . . .  Their kids, the ones raised by
> > institutions instead of parents, are more likely to end up costing
> > society in later years.
>
> is pretty obviously childless, otherwise they'd realize that
> the vast majority of children in this country are indeed raised
> by "institutions", regardless of how their parents choose to
> divvy up the wage-earning responsibilities: From the age of
> about 5 on up, most children spend 6 or 7 hours a day in an
> institution called "school". It may be a public institution --
> it may be a private institution -- but unless they're being
> homeschooled, the kids are spending a lot of time in an
> "institutional environment", and it's been going on for a long,
> long time.
>
> What's that? Oh, it's being in a daycare "institution" for the
> first 5 years that causes a child to become a warped burden on
> society? Get real.
>
> Craig
>
> * for the sake of anyone who's going to give me grief on this,
>   yes I _have_ met Lyn and I realize that she is neither hirsute
>   nor Jewish -- although she _is_ awfully cute, but I'll stop
>   while I'm ahead :)
>
> In austin.general mapanari <mapanari@earthlink.nut> wrote:
> > That's like telling a psychologist that he couldn't possibly understand
> > degenerative mental depression because, well, he just never has had the
same
> > problems.
>
> > What is is with people who screw and pop out children that makes them
think
> > they're so wise and holier than thou and strut around making comments
like
> > "well, if you've never had children then you couldn't possibly know what
I'm
> > talking about"?
>
> > I've heard that it really doesn't take a college degree and intelligence
to
> > learn how to make babies.
> > In fact, I was very bright as a youngun, and I learned at about 9.
> > You?
> > ;-)
> > Come on Craigmeister!
>
> > mapi
>
>
>
> > "Craig Becker" <jlpicard@serv1.jump.net> wrote in message
> > news:9cu99b$6nc$1@news.jump.net...
> >> In austin.general Gary Carson <garycarson@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> > I'm not so sure thats bad.  Their kids, the ones raised by
> >> > institutions instead of parents, are more likely to end up costing
> >> > society in later years.
> >>
> >> Say what?!?!?!
> >>
> >> I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you're not a parent,
> >> right?
> >>
> >> Craig
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