To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (235273 ) 10/20/2013 11:27:20 AM From: epicure Read Replies (1) | Respond to Bread- think about it. If you are the child of a mother who is not functional and who has a very limited vocabulary, how are you going to develop alone with that mother? The whole point of preschool is to allow very deprived children to catch up- and they will and they do. If, however, you do not follow preschool up, even good preschool, with decent school- of course you can permanently destroy the future for those children, and send them back to the moronic abyss from which they came. Language, all the studies show, is acquired fast and furiously in the very young- and that is why mother's educational level is what matters when you look at studies of a child's statistical chances to achieve. Now obviously, if you leave your child with an El Salvadoran nanny, instead of raising it yourself, you run the risk of your child patterning its language off the nanny, and not you, and then your child will not have the linguistic start statistics would tell us it should have given the mother's education. Children who live in language rich environments make millions more brain connections, and develop a facility for language that other children will never have.
