More Moms Staying Home to Help Kids Learn
Sue Shellenbarger, who writes the Work & Family column for the Wall Street Journal reports on new Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing more women staying home to be with their young children. She reports that about-to-be-released data shows that women from all income groups are tending to stay out of the workforce, usually for one to three years. The column notes the case of a mother and father who are teachers in Overland Park, Kansas, and who say that their knowledge about how babies' brains grow was a major factor in the mothers' decision to stop working after their twins, now 2½, and their third child, now 15 months old, were born. At home, Ms. Gunderson says, "I try to make sure everything we do together involves some kind of learning."
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It's interesting because that was one of the big things that convinced me to go back to work and put my daughter in infant school. Although I'm college-educated I'm not at all trained in early childhood education so I thought it would be best to leave it to the experts. My daughter just turned two and she knows her colors, numbers and can even read a bit. I often wonder how far along she'd be if I were home with her. I wouldn't have even guessed she'd have that kind of potential as a two year old so I probably wouldn't have exposed her to as much as her school has.
Posted by Jenny | December 3, 2006 4:50 PM