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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000 Introduction, pg.
xii |
The day care debate gets confused however by
focusing only on research reports that maintain it's the quality of care
that counts, not whether children are in institutional day care or family
day care or cared for by parents...But what tends to get obscured in these
academic discussions is the fact that at present most non-parental care
(as revealed in a number of studies, including the study that documented
that quality counts) is not of high quality.
Category = Quality |
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000 Introduction, pg. xiii |
With over half the nation's
children receiving one form or another of non-parental care, the question is
whether we want to allow a type of care that is not providing children the
needed nurturance and social and intellectual interaction. We have to
ask whether this nurturance is possible in settings where caregivers are
caring for four or more babies (and later six or more toddlers), and are
paid minimal wage, and given little training and little incentive to avoid
staff turnover.
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000 Introduction, pg. xv |
This (day-care) is "institutional
love." It is provided at either end of the life-span for both the poor
and the well-to-do, for those who, because of their age and helplessness,
need to depend on others for their care. We all know what this kind
of care is like. What we don't want to think about is that this care
is what we are providing for those we love.
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000, page 8 |
The notion that relationships are
essential for regulating our behavior and moods and feelings as well as for
intellectual development is one that needs greater emphasis as we think
about the kinds of settings and priorities we want for our children.
The interactions that are necessary can take place in full measure only with
a loving caregiver who has lots of time to devote to a child. A
busy day-care provider with four babies or six or eight toddlers usually
won't have the time for these long sequences of interaction.
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Behavior, Development, Quality |
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 24 |
If parents have options and are
able to provide high-quality care themselves, I find it best not to have
infants or toddlers in full-time 30-40 plus-hour-a-week day care. Current
research and my own clinical observations suggest that most day-care centers
do not provide high-quality care. The quality of interaction between
caregivers and babies is often less than optimal. Also, the current
ratios of four babies per caregiver in the first year and six in the second
year, coupled with high staff turnover, minimum wages, insufficient
training, and the expectable change of caregivers each year, make it
difficult to provide high-quality, ongoing, nurturing care in those early
years. -- Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
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