Davina wrote:

But Pre-school shouldn't be anything like formal learning/teaching. It shouldn't be anything like school. This would be (is) entirely inappropriate for children of that age. This is which my ex- preschool manager's hat on.

That's why preschool teaching is much harder than K-12. There is so MUCH paper work that in all honesty no one's ever going to read = parent's can't really understand some of the jargon; so the only real reason we bother with any of that is so that when the area supervisor comes around to visit, we have something to show for it.

And all of this is AFTER we manage to convince the kids that their parents have not abandoned them & that preschool is fun & they should have a great time, etc... I've been in the toddler room & found it traumatising how much the kids miss their parents. You want to sit with all of them & comfort them but of course you can't get around to everybody (& did I mention that you need TONNES of patience?)

/end rant.

I agree besleybean. Also the amount of record keeping and planning that is required for this age group is frankly ridiculous. I am not in favour of small children being in day care for long periods of time or them entering school at the age of 4.

In all fairness, most mothers would lose their jobs were it not for childcare/preschool. When women demanded gender career equality, they forgot to ask for equal career stability.

If they don't use the childcare system, they will lose their jobs and then they will enter part time employment or cease employment altogether to better look after their kids and then their husbands will look at them differently because they aren't bringing in as much money as before.

The dads can promise nothing will change as much as they like but the reality is that if you lose your job, you lose the financial independence that was the reason you got the job in the first place. Then when you spend money you have to justify it with hubby. I've seen it happen to too many people I know.

I don't regard Pre-school or school as free babysitting, and i never have. in my experience an awful lot of people do. They don't care what their children are doing or learning at school as long as they are there. The term after a child is five was (indeed is) the legal age for starting school (or education otherwise) in the UK but that, frankly, appears to have been cheerfully forgotten and we have children (often boys) who are being labelled as failing readers when they have not even attained the age of 6, for goodness sake!

We appear to have digressed somewhat from the original 10 Questions. 

Like Heaven Can Wait.  Nothing wrong with gibberish. When my son was small his favourite exclamation was 'fish sticks'! (Drove us crazy after a few months though!). 

1. What is your favorite word?
megalomaniac (I just love the sound)
2. What is your least favorite word?
ipad iphone ipod and the rest of it
3. What turns you on?
intelligence, humour
4. What turns you off?
lästern (i don't know the translation: to say mean things about s.o. just for the "fun" of it)
5. What sound or noise do you love?
london tube speeding up when leaving a station
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
motor saw (I had to look up the word)
7. What is your favorite curse word?
fucking hell
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
architect, regisseur, heritage manager, also I'd like to own a cinema
9. What profession would you not like to do?
anything that puts me into ethical dilemma
10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
end of doubts, it was all real, thanks for your trust, come in

 

Last edited by Whisky (May 2, 2014 1:50 pm)

1. What is your favorite word?
Baroque
2. What is your least favorite word?
Banana
3. What turns you on?
Danger
4. What turns you off?
Easiness
5. What sound or noise do you love?
Raindrops on windows
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
Barking
7. What is your favorite curse word?
feck
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Detective... (how unoriginal!)
9. What profession would you not like to do?
Anything that has to do with sports
10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
"You do not belong here"
 

Last edited by Lady Grace Elmstone (May 3, 2014 8:12 am)

1. What is your favorite word? – Integrity
2. What is your least favorite word? – Bromance – when did we stop having good friends?
3. What turns you on? – Lately it has been Benedict Cumberbatch.
4. What turns you off? – Pornographic art featuring any identifiable public person
5. What sound or noise do you love? – Bird song
6. What sound or noise do you hate? – City noises
7. What is your favorite curse word? – “Rack-a-frack-a Reindeer” or “Fiddlesticks”
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? – Engineering or architecture
9. What profession would you not like to do? – Volunteer coordinator for a good cause – I don’t like people and volunteers are the worst; they don’t take orders and they always think they know best.
10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? – S/He would say, “Well, you got that one wrong, atheist.”  But I would like to hear her/him say, “Welcome, anyway.”
 

saturnR wrote:

1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on?
4. What turns you off?
5. What sound or noise do you love?
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
7. What is your favorite curse word?
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
9. What profession would you not like to do?
10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? 

1. Dongle, intertwining, ernest and unyeilding are my favorites
2. a word that is known as C U Next Tuesday (not gonna write it but the first letters...)
3. Awkward angels like Castiel
4. This is kinda weird but... whips. and belts?
5. I love the sound of cooking bacon
6. cats meowing. ive heard it WAY too much. (i have 3 cats)
7. I try not to swear, but when i do its either shit or son of a bitch
8. forensics
9. midwifery
10. "I saved Castiel and Balthazar just for you."

Lola Red wrote:

10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
“Time to rest now, child”
 

Ooooh, that's deep.