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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Dr. Denmark Said It!
Advice to Mothers From America's Most Experienced
Pediatrician
by Madia L. Bowman © 2001, p. 13 |
A little newborn has few immunities. If
you... put him in the (daycare)..., I'll probably see him (four days later). Why? Because somebody brought a sick baby to the
(daycare) and he was coughed on.
Category = Disease |
Dr. Denmark Said It!
Advice to Mothers From America's Most Experienced
Pediatrician
by Madia L. Bowman © 2001,
p. 107 |
A mother cat would never leave her
kittens to someone else's care. Bird mothers don't push their babies
out of the nest until they are old enough to fly, yet an increasing number
of American mothers regularly drop their children off at day care.
Category = Quality |
Dr. Denmark Said It!
Advice to Mothers From America's Most Experienced
Pediatrician
by Madia L. Bowman © 2001,
p. 111 |
"America today is a wrecked nation.
(Many) of our children go to day care and learn to fight their way through
life. There a child tries to build something and the other children
snatch at it and tear it down. He in turn begins snatching and
fighting. There is no peace for him. He's not able to have a
quiet time at home. He'll not learn to do things by himself or learn
self-discipline. ...Rejected youngsters will one day ruin our
country".
"...Children in day care learn to be robots; at home they can learn to be
individuals".
Category = Quality |
Dr. Denmark Said It!
Advice to Mothers From America's Most Experienced
Pediatrician
by Madia L. Bowman © 2001,
p. 111-112 |
"I spoke with a woman not long ago
whose baby had been in day care ever since he was six weeks old. It
cost her (a lot of money) and (50% more) every week or ten days in doctor
bills. The baby was constantly sick."
Category = Disease |
The
Four-Thirds Solution
Solving the Child-Care Crisis
in America Today
by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA © 2001, page 5 & 6 |
...we may
simply be asking the day-care system to do too much: We are
expecting it to operate the way very well-functioning families do. But
most out-of-home care can't give a child what a well-functioning family is
designed to provide. Even at the best centers, caregivers in the
infant rooms usually care for four or more babies, and child-to-staff ratios
for toddlers can rise as high as 10 to 1. What's more, caregivers may
change rapidly because of high turnover in the child-care field and because
of child-care center practices that dictate that children be moved from one
room to another as they grow. As a result, children aren't getting the
consistent one-on-one nurturing with the same caregiver over a long period
of time that almost all of us who study and work with children agree they
need. Furthermore, many highly motivated caregivers don't receive the
training, support, and pay they need to work with children on a sustained
basis.
Category = Quality |
