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As I said, my parents are educators. I didn't say before, but I am a developmental neuroscientist (research, not patients) and my sister is a social worker in the foster care system. When you have clinical experience like PP and my family members, a bad idea like her SILs is not just an idea that sounds bad, as it is to us regular parents. It is a bad idea you have personally seen, and worked to counteract, the effects of--not just once, either, but dozens or hundreds of times. Your mind goes not to "what if it were my kid" as our normal-parent minds do, but to the faces of the many kids you've seen who were harmed by such approaches. PP is not objecting to daycare, as so many PPs think she is, but to the stated objective to "toughen up" a 2 year old boy who his parents think is too sensitive.

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There's some major selection bias there, though. PP and your family members only see the children where X was done and things went wrong. They never see the children where X was done and things went fine. [/quote]

um...ok? That's not news to me. I don't see your point.

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Not PP, but the point is that it is silly to base a conclusion from a sample that is self-selected.  You say the psychologist should be respected because she's seen lots of kids who had problems stemming from daycare.  However, she has not seen all the other kids who had no problems, but were also in daycare.  Therefore, she has no idea whether daycare is a problem in the kids that she has seen and should not draw those conclusions.[/quote]

LOL! Every one of your sentences is wrong. I've typed enough today on this. [/quote]

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