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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p 41 |
In the day care situation children are usually discouraged in a variety of
ways from expressing anything negative about being there. These can range
from children's perceptions of the expectations of the day care providers to
more direct systems of rewards and punishments. Complainers are often
ostracized. "Look at Tommy. He's a big boy. He doesn't cry for his mommy all
the time."
Day care children who are unhappy and seek more individual attention are in
a bind. They can sense that constantly asking for their parents is not what
the day care provider wants to hear, and if they keep it up they are likely
to get less attention, not more. And if they express their feelings to their
parents, they may find that a tired working parent is not overjoyed at the
prospect of trying to find another suitable and affordable day care
arrangement. Just like adults, children can begin to feel that they have
no choice, and they will become reconciled to their fate. They may stop
expressing their feelings to the day care workers and their parents, but
these feelings have not evaporated, and a child may suddenly become more
aggressive or demanding. Children can act out their feelings in many ways.
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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p 42 |
Concurrent with the suppression of information in various kinds of day care
arrangements and the bias in academia, there have been many instances of
extreme bias in the mass media. Despite numerous articles in the medical
journals describing significant health risks associated with group care for
very young children, this issue has, up to the present time, received
virtually no coverage in the mass media.
And women's and family magazines have almost exclusively played it safe,
focusing on the "good day care versus bad day care" issue, or the needs of
parents, and avoiding any criticism of full-time day care per se. Popular
topics are how to choose a day care center, and how to cope...
Category =
Caregiver, Politics |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p
43 |
There has been little (media) coverage of children's needs or
exploration of the potential harmful effects of full-time separation on
young children.
Part of this suppression of opposing viewpoints and distortion of research
in women's and family magazines is because many editors...have, or have
had, their own children in day care. Like researchers, ...editors who
have made the decision to put their children in day care may be on the
defensive. The suggestion that day care may be harmful is very
threatening, and they have difficulty considering such an idea with an open
mind. When personal considerations are compounded by marketing pressures
there is little chance an article raising questions about the advisability
of day care will be published in these magazines.
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Caregiver, Politics |
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