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Quotes
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books about daycare -
1970,
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Every Child's Birthright
by Selma Fraiberg , ©1977
p94
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But (is
a typical daycare provider) an uncaring woman? Is she cruel? Not at all, it
appears. If these children seem dispirited and joyless it is not because
their caretaker is malevolent or grossly neglectful.
...She is not personally attached to any of these children. She is the
custodian of a baby bank, dispensing necessary services such as diapering, a
meal and a snack, kleenex for the tears, rescue from assault by peers, safe
storage for the ten hours when mother is at work.
Category = Quality |
Every Child's Birthright
by Selma Fraiberg , p5 |
Who is
to blame for this dreary nursery, with its joyless babies? Is it the
(day-care provider), who governs this baby bank with a mixture of rough
justice and tenderness? I think not. For who could do a better job of
playing mother to (several) babies for eight to ten hours per day? It is
conceivable that even an All Star day-care team composed of Dr. Spock (the
famous child-rearing expert) and the American Mother of the Year could not
provide substitute mother for ten babies under these circumstances.
Category = Quality |
Every Child's Birthright
by Selma Fraiberg ,
103 |
"Who
Takes Care of the Caretaker's Children?"
(The typical day care worker) lives in the Looking Glass World*
of Day Care in which hundreds of thousands of mothers on welfare take care
of the children of hundreds of thousands of working mothers and other
mothers on welfare, while hundreds of thousands of women take care of the
children of the mothers who are taking care of the children of mothers on
welfare and other mothers.
[If this sentence causes dizziness, I recommend that it be read slowly as
you turn...]
*This refers to the backwards mirror-image world of Through the Looking
Glass (1872), by Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Ludwidge Dodgson)
Category = Economics |
Every Child's Birthright
by Selma Fraiberg ,
111 |
"I am worried about millions of children who are being served by
Child Care Industries Incorporated. I worry about babies and small children
who are delivered like packages to neighbors, to strangers, to storage
houses (daycares) like Merry Mites. In the years when a baby and his parents
make their first enduring human partnerships, when love, trust, joy, and
self-valuation emerge through the nurturing love of human partners, millions
of small children in our land may be learning values for survival in our
baby banks. They may learn the rude justice of the communal playpen. They
may learn that the world outside of home is an indifferent world, or even a
hostile world. Or they may learn that all adults are interchangeable, that
love is capricious, that human attachment is a perilous investment, and that
love should be hoarded for the self in the service of survival."
Category = Behavior |
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02/27/2008
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