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I finally got around to posting my old furniture on the local freecycle group, and it looks like it's going to work and people are going to take the couches out of my garage and enjoy them. Yay freecycling!

Rhys is saying a lot more words lately, though I'm still sometimes dubious about if I'm just contextualizing sounds a lot. But I think he is saying "apple" (Ap-l), "pear" (Peh), cheese (Chizz) and fish(iss) pretty regularly now.

We went to the local Montessori this morning, to which I'm considering sending Rhys for 3 mornings a week come fall. He seemed really comfortable there. I don't really havea plan as to what I'd do next myself with the open time though, and I still need to decide whether sending him to "school" this early is a good idea or not. I was a nursery school dropout, myself. The people at Yellow Duck wouldn't let me take my Oreos apart and only eat the middles of them, and somehow I always ended up being the cheese during the Farmer in the Dell, so I refused to go anymore and stayed in bed for three days pretending to be sick. Or so my mother says; I don't really remember.

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m0nkeygrl.livejournal.com

I was a nursery school dropout, myself. The people at Yellow Duck wouldn't let me take my Oreos apart and only eat the middles of them, and somehow I always ended up being the cheese during the Farmer in the Dell, so I refused to go anymore and stayed in bed for three days pretending to be sick. Or so my mother says; I don't really remember.

This made me laugh. :) Reminds me of my own preschool experiences...except we had more people than did "players" for Farmer in the Dell...so I was the cheese only on a good day.

velvetpage.livejournal.com

You probably are hearing those words. Elizabeth was saying most of the same ones at 14 months. In fact, it's more likely he's saying things you're not catching, than that you're contextualizing random sounds. The linguistic-development marathon is just beginning. It's really fun. :)

The other mothers of toddlers I know all say that nursery school of some sort did wonders for their child's development. Certainly Elizabeth gets experiences at hers, one day a week, that she doesn't get with me or even Oma, good as Oma is for her. And an international test administered to fifteen-year-olds recently reported (somewhere in its 500 pages) that countries with very high attendance at regulated preschools overall fared much better on the tests, especially in math and spatial-sense activities. Also, Elizabeth's social skills are proceeding very quickly; she's more outgoing than she was in August.

That's my take on it, anyhow.

ladyperegrine.livejournal.com

Plus you get a little bit of time!! :-D Use it just for you.

We do the preschool thing part-time. It seems good for everyone involved.

C.

beetiger.livejournal.com

What age did you start?

eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com

I wrote a paper about the long-term benefits of preschool.

I can email it to you if you want (my professor said I should publish it as a pamphlet to give to parents considering preschool), but here's the short version:

Yes. Put him in preschool as soon as possible. He's over a year old, time to start socializing him with peers, building up his immune system, and getting him used to mommy leaving him somewhere for a few hours where he can play and learn.

He is going to get sick a lot, especially at first. This is (of course) worrisome, but extremely beneficial.