Book |
Quote/Comment |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p 90 |
In addition to the potentially adverse effect full-time day care has on
children's creative intelligence, day care interferes with parents'
opportunities to transmit their own values to their children.
Just as with bonding, there is no such thing as "quality time" in the sense
of somehow instantaneously instilling parental values and ethics in young
children. Learning values is the product of countless hours and thousands of
experiences.
Category =
Behavior, Caregiver, Disease |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p
92 |
(Compared to the frequent turnover of caregivers in a day care),
Educators have long felt that children need the consistency and security of
a single teacher for their
first years at school. It is not until junior
high school or high school that students start to study different subjects
with different teachers, and even then the idea of consistency is maintained
by having a homeroom teacher.
Category =
Caregiver, Development, Politics |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p 93 |
Unfortunately, some parents find themselves in a situation where they have
no choice about taking a full-time job and putting their babies in day care
if they are to eat and pay the rent. The most these parents can do is
realize that inevitable does not equate with beneficial. Understanding
that the situation is not good for their children may make them concerned...
Category =
Caregiver, Economics, Quality |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p 93 |
A day care worker watching her 225th child take her first step can't get too
excited.
Category =
Caregiver, |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p 94 |
All full-time day care should be viewed as a compromise, to be used only
when it is absolutely necessary or on a temporary basis until satisfactory
arrangements with less extensive separation can be worked out
Category =
Caregiver, Quality |