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Quotes from books about daycare -
1980-1984, p1
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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p 11 |
But we were going to offer a quality day care program. We did not have
the slightest suspicion that there might be a serious problem with even the
best day care programs.
We also saw some of the same boys and girls we had
known as preschoolers ... become different children when they were subjected
to the stress of full-time day care.
We saw the differences between the children who still came for only half
a day for preschool and the children who attended full time.
After a year and a half of seeing this, we could no longer bear to watch. It
was obvious that the children did not feel that staff-given understanding
and comforting were adequate compensation for spending forty or fifty hours
a week away from their parents. We found ourselves talking the center out of
business...
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Behavior, Caregiver |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p
17 |
The family experience is being diluted and diminished by the increasing use
of full-time day care for young children. Most parents realize that the
decision whether to put their child in someone else's care, and the choice
as to the kind of arrangement, will significantly affect their work and
family life. But very few are aware of how full-time day care affects their
child's life, and the effects of the extensive use of full-time day care on
the nature and direction of our whole society are not readily discernible.
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Caregiver. Behavior, Politics |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p 18 |
Full-time day care, particularly group care, is not an adequate substitute
for time spent with parents, and can be especially harmful for children
under the age of three. For two years we watched day care children in our
preschool/day care center respond to the stresses of eight to ten hours a
day of separation from their parents with tears, anger, withdrawal, or
profound sadness, and we found, to our dismay, that nothing in our own
affection and caring for these children would erase this sense of loss and
abandonment. We came to realize that the amount of separation--the number
of hours a day spent away from the parents--is a critical factor.
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Behavior, Caregiver |
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Quotes from books about daycare
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02/27/2008
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