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The Dr. Laura Podcast

The Significance of Not Dumping Your Kid in Preschool or Daycare

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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"The Significance of Not Dumping Your Kid in Preschool or Daycare" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7

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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