Diamond Enthusiast

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How young is the pre-school? We've been having this debate in Britain of late. Some parents seem to have the kids out of the house as soon as the kids are born  Four years old is young enough, methinks. Up to that age mother is best and the children are hardly ready for social interaction. As to formal education there is quite a divide between French, 'continental' , thinking and British thought. Our youngster was taught under the French system and we were alarmed when she could not read fluently at six. The teachers were surprised. One said " But we teach all of them to swim at four. She can swim like a fish. Swimming is much important than reading at her age ! Swimming can save her life ! " She did of course learn to read fluently. Her manners were strangely and impeccably French and formal too . Different cultures, different thinking. (They didn't think much of a father's supposed influence either. When she was to go there the head teacher interviewed her mother. When mother innocently asked whether they wouldn't like to see father too she got the reply : "Whatever for? The child doesn't know it has a father until it's at least seven !" )
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