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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 25 |
In a number of day-care centers,
when the children are mobile, I see a lot of emotionally hungry children.
Children come up to any new adult and hang on. Some of that reaching
out for any mother is simply reaching out to anyone who will give them some
attention. It's a little indiscriminate. We see that in
institutions such as orphanages where there is emotional deprivation.
A minute here and there of reciprocal interaction, sometimes around
feeding or diapering, is not enough to provide the needed security and sense
of being cared for. -- Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
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Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 26 |
In day care, by design, the
caregivers change each year. Turnover is so great, though,
that...there may be three changes of caregivers by the time a baby has had a
year of day care. -- Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 26 |
The caregiver in a day-care setting
is not like a meta peleth* in a kibbutz
(an ideal daycare situation) in Israel, who is a
stable person in a child's life, with him for four or five years.
-- Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
* nursemaid, day nurse
source: the New Bantam Megiddo
Hebrew & English Dictionary.
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 27 |
To improve day care, I see three
babies per adult as the absolute maximum for the first year of life.
But now the norm is four babies per caregiver.
Imagine a mother with triplets and how hard it is for her to care for all
three babies at the same time.
-- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 41 |
Becoming dependent on primary
caregivers who disappear does not breed in a baby an inner sense of security
and consistency. Child care arrangements where children are spending
most of their day with transient caregivers should not be viewed as optimal
or chosen by design.
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 46 |
Since it is so hard for caregivers
to have long, nurturing interactions when caring for four or more babies
(standard in most institutional day care), and because of the staff turnover
that is characteristic of most institutional day-care settings, as well as
the tendency to have staff change each year as children move from the infant
room to the toddler room to the preschool room, we believe that in the first
two years of life full-time daycare is a difficult context in which to
provide the ongoing, nurturing care by one or a few caregivers that the
child requires.
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