The Significance of Not Dumping Your Kid in Preschool or Daycare
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:26.2 | at Dr.ora.com. I had a call from a young man with a little kid, two years old, started asking you |
| 0:36.8 | back preschool, and I said, crappy parents, |
| 0:40.3 | uninvolved parents, negligent parents, disinterested parents, send their kids to preschool. |
| 0:50.8 | Instead of raising them, especially the first five years, which are so significant to be with beloveds, |
| 0:57.5 | so they can learn, they can be influenced, |
| 1:04.8 | loved up and down, and learn safety, security, love. They don't do that in preschool or daycare. So I got a wonderful |
| 1:16.3 | letter. Read it twice and decided to read it to you. This is from, well, I'm not going to give her name. |
| 1:29.8 | First of all, I would like to say I've been a listener for years and have used so much of your |
| 1:34.5 | advice that you've given your callers and I thank God for you every day. |
| 1:38.5 | I thought my life calling was to be a nurse, but life took a different turn, and for 25 years I have been teaching preschool. |
| 1:47.9 | Long story short, with the encouragement of my husband and family, I bought an established private |
| 1:53.4 | preschool in 2007 after the owner I worked for retired. And now I am close to retirement. |
| 2:03.9 | I appreciate your stance on preschool and wanted to express my viewpoint as a pre-k teacher. We run half-day morning sessions, so me and my other |
| 2:14.8 | teacher are with our students for two and a half hours each morning. |
| 2:18.9 | I have experienced a wide array of parenting skills, in quotes, from the helicopter parents to the |
| 2:29.4 | I don't have time for this kid parents, to the active and interested parent to just plain |
| 2:33.3 | exhausted parents. |
| 2:36.7 | Public schools in my area have all day pre-K, four days a week. I call that daycare. I'm not a |
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