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[quote=Anonymous]This seems ridiculous to me, at least for the SAHPs.  For millenia, kids did not go to daycare.  I never went to daycare or preschool.  Kids learned to talk.  In fact, they learn better by talking to adults than by talking to other children.  (Younger siblings and twins are more likely to have delays, because they are speaking more to other children than to adults.)

The only kids I knew that had speech delays due to environmental issues were ones whose parents put them in front of the TV for the day so that they could go drink. (Sadly, yes, I do know those people.  But those kids are now teens with no speech delays -- they caught right up as soon as they did go to preschool.)

But I am super sympathetic to the parents who are both trying to hold down jobs and don't have time to be talking to their kids while they are working.  If my kids were still tat little, I would be doing the narration thing that they recommend for SAHPs of little ones.  ("Mommy is going to check email now.  I am checking my email.  Oh, look, 800 unread emails.  Mommy is so busy with all these silly emails.  People should stop emailing Mommy with every dumb questions that they could figure out on their own if they spent even two little minutes thinking about it....")[/quote]

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