A much-anticipated report from the largest and longest-running study of American child care has found that keeping a preschooler in a day care center for a year or more increased the likelihood that the child would become disruptive in class — and that the effect persisted through the sixth grade.
The effect was slight, and well within the normal range for healthy children, the researchers found. And as expected, parents’ guidance and their genes had by far the strongest influence on how children behaved.
The State of . . . Child care. Parents, current and pending, what shall you do? The study seems to indicate that the effect was slight and that their parents are still the deciding factor. Let’s not be too quick to jump on the home schooling band wagon, just yet.
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