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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I am not an older nanny but I grew up in a part of the country where kids still have freedom to be kids. I never went to daycare or had any structured early childhood education. Want to know what the result is? I am in law school at one of DC's great institutions and doing just fine.

One of my best childhood memories is when my cousins and I decided we wanted to catch a squirrel. We borrowed cat carriers, baited them with penut butter, nuts, and leaves and argued about the most strategic location to place them (base of the tree or near the back door where squirrels always went through our trash?) Our parents watched with amusement. No one said "hey that isn't teaching you how to get into Princeton." They just allowed us to learn that squirrels are not as stupid as we thought. Not a one fell for it. Lord only knows what we would have done if we actually caught one, we never got to that point in our problem solving, lol. That same creative thinking is what helps me to sift through a hundred different arguments on my law school exam to find the one that my professor will judge worthy of an A grade.

I am no Bill Gates, but I make my mother proud.[/quote]

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