Nursery/Kindergarten

[6ame]

My son turns 3 in November, and I would like to know if I should send him to nursery.

His mother in is favour of it, I'm not against it, I just haven't made my mind up, so I would like to know, preferably from personal experience, whether you think I should or not.

What are the advantages, and disadvantages?

Here's my concern, I have high hopes for him, and I know most parents will say this, but I think he's very clever, and I am worried his intelligence growth will be stunted if he's being spoon-fed nonsensical nursery rhymes, or worse yet, baby talk from the staff, or even other children.

So, what is your opinion? Personal please, no textbook answers, I can find them myself using a search engine.

Oh, and far from being nonsensical, a lot have very interesting histories, obviously Ring a Roses is about the plague, but I love the fact that Mary Quite Contrary is about Bloody Mary Tudor.
I wonder where Dr. Foster originated? Answers on a new thread please!

dirty plates next to the sink ... oops!

This OP is a kind of troll. I know that breaches etiquette but he's from a misogynistic site and is slagging us off. This post was to 'test' you. thread here His MN profile says it all, really.

Harecare - apparently (according to QI) ring a roses isn't anything to do with the plague and sneezing isn't a symptom of plague. (I am aware that referencing QI is worse than quoting wikipedia but I like this 'fact' cos it keeps the reception teachers on their toes)

Oh well...looks like we (kind of) passed the test as mostly we did try to help. Maybe he will post a bit more often with 'real' queries now he's seen we're not simply man haters!

I shouldn't have said anything really, even if the op is a troll the advice given is genuine and still of benefit to lurkers. It's just annoying as MN seems to be crawling with them at the moment.

Hahahahaha at the other website

Mumsnet does not ban posters they don't agree with, there would be no one left if they did.

You do get banned, and threads will get deleted for trolling, which is what you are doing.

Oh, and I will report this thread to MN.

To the posters from Antimisandry.

Please leave us alone. If you want to join in and have a discussion with us, then new posters are always welcome but don't come over to troll or test us. It is rude.

Posters on this thread have generously offered their advice, in the assumption that this was an honest query.

I am really confused as to his point though? Why would asking if his son should go to nursery identify us as man haters? I have an issue with his attitude towards pre school education but that is nothing to do with his gender!

I am so cross now. 6ame just bog off and stop wasting our time. I spent my valuable time passing on my experiences believing you were genuinely interested in other peoples perspective. I am not a man-hating feminist but you do not make it easy to not turn into one! Just toddle off back to your own little self-centred world.

Mum2one
I have reported the thread to MNHQ and I guess it will be deleted. Or they might leave it so that we know to avoid wankers like 6ame and his pals.

I can't tell if the OP was actually wanting some genuine advice, as well as "testing" us?? Anyway, it is very disappointing to spend valuable time genuinely trying to help someone and then finding out they were being so mean on another website. If the OP's problem is women generalising about men being bad people, isn't he doing exactly the same by assuming that all the women on MN are man-hating lunatics? I am certainly not.

bcmummy that was my thought exactly. Also, when you look at the content on the forum he has come from it seems to be exactly the male equivalent of what he is assuming about mumsnet.