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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p 114-118 |
(Parents) do not feel comfortable with the idea that day care might
be harmful to their children. A number of rationalizations have emerged
to help (working parents) overcome the natural concern they feel at leaving
their children for ten hours a day.
The denial mechanism is strong enough for them to buy into these
rationalizations. Here are some of the common ones.
-Rationalization: It's quality time that counts.
The quality-versus-quantity debate is a false dichotomy*
Children can thrive on good-sized portions of rice
and beans and corn (quantity), but they will soon starve on one bite a day
of filet mignon (quality).
-Rationalization: I couldn't teach my child all those things.
Even the best infant care centers, the ones with
personnel trained in early childhood education, cannot
teach the babies anything more than their parents could.
-Rationalization: I believe peer contact is important so I send my
child to day care.
Peer contact is important. It is not a reason to send a child to
day care eight or ten hours a day.
-Rationalization: I'm sending my children to day care so they will
be independent.
...children who have been in day care since they were six weeks old may
not wail at the kindergarten door. They have long since discovered this is
useless. But their lack of (emotional) nourishment will be evident all their
lives, especially when they try to form a close loving relationship with
another human being.
The foregoing rationalizations may provide some
comfort for (daycare parents),
but the right decision for ...the child must
be based on a correct understanding of children and their needs, not false
assumptions.
*dichotomy - division into two contradictory groups.
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Caregiver, Politics, Quality |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p 122 |
The days of coffee klatches, of sharing gossip with a neighbor while the
kids all play under the big old apple tree in the back yard, are
disappearing. That neighbor is likely to be working, and her kids are off in
day care.
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