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To: mph who wrote (27081)	8/23/2006 9:45:42 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541479

I agree it would be best to handle it that way, with the parent making the decisions, but as I am sure you know more and more parents are single parents, or parents who are working longer hours, or two jobs, and junior is often left alone, to lock him or herself in the house with the TV or Nintendo for company. It's unfortunate- but I'm sure you want people working hard, right? And you know that good child care is expensive, and even bad child care is expensive. So, given that we do not live in a world that necessarily allows children to be protected by their parents, I don't mind if the state tries to pick up some slack. I wish the parents could do it, but I know from what I see that many parents aren't home. Let me tell you something you may not know. I found that kids, middle class kids, are not being read to anymore from the classic children's lit cannon. It used to be you could at least count on children to have been exposed to nursery rhymes. Not any more. I found that high school kids did not know words like fleece (except as in polyester fleece jackets), or mire, or dapple - words found in Mother Goose. I found that only one of my seniors ate a good lunch packed by her mother, and almost none of them ate with their parents, and many of them couldn't remember the last time they had eaten a meal with their parents. Why? Because the parents were working. IMO you better hope the nanny is coming, because the parents are AWOL.