by Kathy Myers

Created on: July 05, 2010

Preschool has taken on the responsibility and role of the parent.  We have negated the importance of a child bonding with parents, and acquiring a firm foundation of what the family structure is meant to be.  If anything education will suffer because of preschools.

Parents today are relieved of their duties as parents and society has given them their blessings.  Just have a baby, keep it around a year or so, and then ship it off to preschool.  What ever happened to nurturing your child in the most formative years of their life?

I cringe when I see these tiny little children climbing off school buses where they have been riding for 60-90 minutes.  They are dragged out of their warm bed and shuffled off to hell on wheels.  There they hear every four letter word that can be imagined, not to mention some of the most violent behaviors.  Then five years later we wonder what is wrong with them.

I am disillusioned with parents who don’t want to take responsibility for raising their children.  It is parent’s responsibility to teach their child until they are of school age, which should be 6-7 years old.  They need to learn to speak well, understand boundaries, learn to play and share, take naps, and bond with moms and dads.

If outcome is expected it will be one of disaster.  At preschool children learn to fight, be manipulative, how to properly speak a broad range of filthy words, and how to be disrespectful to adults.  You can be sure that if your child wasn’t aware of these wonderful qualities, send them to preschool and then you will be convinced.

The bad outcomes dreadfully outweigh the good in preschool.  You cannot separate the good from the bad, and eventually it will infect other children. The most likely kids that will be sent to preschool are the parents that don’t even deserve the right to be called a parent.  I know this sounds so very harsh, but reality is harsh!  I saw it day in and day out.

 None of my 4 kids went to preschool, there was no such thing.  All four of them are college graduates and I instilled my beliefs in my children.  I did my job as a parent.  I worked with my kids at home, I made the time to read to them, talk with them, let them draw and color, they watched educational TV programs like “The Electric Company”.

I cherished the time I spent “with” my kids, not without them.  I didn’t want strangers given the task of being a parent to my child.  If parents would get up off their butts and do what parents should we would not have 2 and 3 year olds in diapers coming to preschool anyway.  Liberal thinking has been the downfall of our education system as well as our country.  When society wants to bear the burden for every aspect of our lives, it can only mean trouble. 

If you want your child to succeed, be a parent and do your job!

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