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Book |
Quote/Comment |
The
Four-Thirds Solution
by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., © 2001
page 42 |
First, because of the way child
care is structured and because of high turnover in the day-care industry,
the majority of providers don't get a chance to build long relationships
with the children in their care. At most child-care centers, babies
change caregivers each year as they move through the toddler and preschool
rooms. In centers whose employees receive less training and lower
wages and where there is high turnover, caregivers change even more
frequently.
Category = Quality |
The
Four-Thirds Solution
Solving the Child-Care
Crisis in America Today
by Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.
Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA
© 2001, page 43 |
Even in good daycare centers, we've
seen many an eager, expectant eight-month-old baby give up and stare at the
wall as his caregiver stops by his crib briefly but then hurries away to
attend to a crying rival.
Category = Behavior |
The
Four-Thirds Solution
by Stanley I.
Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2001, page
43 |
Many child-care
providers (as a number have told me) "hold back" emotionally because
separating from their tiny charges would otherwise be too emotionally
wrenching.
Category = Quality |
The
Four-Thirds Solution
by Stanley I.
Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2001, page 59 |
Even when legal standards are
followed, and there are only four infants per worker -- well, imagine trying
to take care of quadruplets alone! Yet that's what we're asking our
daycare provider to do.
Category = Quality |
The
Four-Thirds Solution
by Stanley I.
Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2001, page 97 |
But the most important point is to
emphasize that our children need us.
Now. We simply can't turn the care of them over to the shaky
system of child-care options that we have hurriedly constructed in the last
20 years.
Category = Development, Quality
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