The major miss­ing link for any child in day­care is a lov­ing and long-term rela­tion­ship with a spe­cif­ic car­er (obvi­ous­ly not the moth­er). The sec­ondary miss­ing link is the arti­fi­cial nature of almost every­thing a child learns and the words they hear.  Thus the impov­er­ished nature of the speech and com­pre­hen­sion of so many chil­dren under […]

As I write this we are already get­ting to the end of March. Due to my ear­ly ris­ing – 6.30 a.m. (not me at all!) each day for ‘work’ I have been pret­ty brain fried as far as writ­ing is con­cerned. How­ev­er by Day 18 I was antic­i­pat­ing my first day at work – the […]