Over the last century the attitude towards children education and optimal upbringing strategies has evolved beyond any wildest expectations of our ancectors. This has been driven by social and demographical change as well as by scientific research on children development and psychology. Many srategies were tested in various countries, including long-term homeschooling and early education in nurseries and kindergartens. Nowadays we can safely say that families will benefit financially from choosing the early start for formal education for their children, while it would not cause any development and psychological issues for toddlers. Those people, who prefer to keep their children at home till they turn 7 years old, argue that children might suffer from the separation. In addition to that, small chidren are extremely valnurable and can not protect themeselves from abuse, they might even not being able to recognize it and articulate to their caretakers. So parents hope to protect their children well-being by keeping them home. All arguments mentioned above do hold water and children do sometimes experience abuse, however it does not mean that modern society can not arrange the safe environment for children outside home and there are pleanty safe and enjoyable kindergartens all around the world. Scientists also have proved that there are no advantages for children development if they stayed home during pre-school years. At the same time having children till the age of 7 in home has a super detremental impact on women human capital and earnings. Long maternity leaves are considered to be one of the key reasons for the persistent gender pay gap. So women will gain a lot for returning back to office as soon as possible. In conclusion I argue that if there are no disadvantages for children if they are sent early to educational institutions and at the same time mothers might gain a lot for choosing that option than it could be considered the most optimal.
Over the last century the attitude towards
children
education and optimal upbringing strategies has evolved beyond any wildest expectations of our
ancectors
. This has
been driven
by social and
demographical
change
as well
as by scientific research on
children
development and psychology.
Many
srategies
were
tested
in various countries, including long-term homeschooling and early education in nurseries and kindergartens. Nowadays we can
safely
say that families will benefit
financially
from choosing the early
start
for formal education for their
children
, while it would not cause any development and psychological issues for toddlers. Those
people
, who prefer to
keep
their
children
at home till they turn 7 years
old
, argue that
children
might suffer from the separation.
In addition
to that,
small
chidren
are
extremely
valnurable
and can not protect
themeselves
from abuse, they might even not being able to recognize it and articulate to their caretakers.
So
parents hope to protect their
children
well-being by keeping them home. All arguments mentioned above do hold water and
children
do
sometimes
experience abuse,
however
it does not mean that modern society can not arrange the safe environment for
children
outside home and there are
pleanty
safe and enjoyable kindergartens all around the world. Scientists
also
have proved that there are no advantages for
children
development if they stayed home during
pre-school
years. At the same time having
children
till the age of 7 in home has a super
detremental
impact on women human capital and earnings. Long maternity
leaves
are considered
to be one of the key reasons for the persistent gender pay gap.
So
women will gain a lot for
returning back
to office as
soon
as possible. In
conclusion I
argue that if there are no disadvantages for
children
if they are
sent
early to educational institutions and at the same time mothers might gain a lot for choosing that option than it could
be considered
the most optimal.