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When is peer orientation ever good?

I don't think ever.

North American's fixation on putting everyone in a peer group causes stress, bullying and stagnation.

Think about it for a moment, do babies and toddlers do well in daycares with big groups of the same age? Do children do well always with their same age? No, Dr Gordon Neufeld has done research to show bullying can be prevented by have children around younger children.

Being with a child's own peer group causes stress. You learn from older people, not someone clueless of your own age.

And just as an aside, has anyone noticed or seen research that in the public school, boys appear to be taking on female traits like crying, emotional, etc and girls taking on male traits like aggressive, loud, very physical, etc.

And returning to the peer focus, it was shown the seniors in a residence to so much better when having time with toddlers and kids.

Does peer orientation help for the work-world? I don't think so.

militantMom 6 Mar 27
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Stress caused by evaluating ones self to a peer isnt exclusively negative. This can produce strong motivation for improvement. Competition isnt really fair unless its with an comparable competitor?

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I would believe one would have to make the distinction of age in regards to peer groups. A three year old child is not normally "aware" of other three year olds. They do not engage in cooperative play. The literature on child development is rather extensive and very detailed. If what is happening is contrary to normal child delevelopment and done for political reasons then we must assume that the health, both physical and mental, of the child is being held hostage to political ideology. But that is the new progressive education system.

There are a number of variables that come into play. The size of the school districts and the population density within such districts will determine class sizes, the number of students to the number of school locations, and so on. What are the parental attitudes towards their children's education. What are the ideological and political attitudes of the education participants and management. Then we have all the rules and regulations that are made but the Federal, state, and local departments of education. There are so misdiagnosed cases of adhd and other "disabilities" and too many doctors too willing to prescribe drugs that will later have negative effects on a child well into adulthood. Back in the fifties dyslexia was an unknown disability, but I had a humdinger of a case, still do. Today if I were seven or eight they would have me on hyperactivity drugs due to my dyslexia and much higher IQ. Then I would become a real asset for the school and the classroom. Why? Because the disabled are entitled to special education and that means more special ed teachers who are paid at a higher rate. It also means more aides assigned to the classroom, more technology that go towards the education of those students. It is a can or worms that will never be dealt with because of the money and the participants. No one ever voted themselves out of a job or a pay cut.

As for mental breakdowns, you might want to expand on that verbiage. If anything, the past twenty years obsession with making children conform to particular social standards would, in my opinion, cause problems in later life coping with stress.

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