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Parenthood by
Proxy,
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger,
© 2000, p. 248 |
Also
profiled in the same magazine were William and Wendy Dreskin, who operated a
“good” day care center in
San Francisco
for five years. Its ratio of children to workers was low. It had ample
equipment and an excellent curriculum. Teachers all had degrees plus at
least a year of graduate training.
They
wrote a book about their experience called The Day Care Decision. In
it, they concluded, “For two years we watched children respond to the stress
of separation from their parents with tears, anger, withdrawal or profound
sadness. We found, to our dismay, that nothing in our own affection and
caring for these children would erase this sense of loss and abandonment.”
The
Dreskins eventually closed their quality center.
Category = Caregiver, Quality
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Parenthood by
Proxy,
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger,
© 2000, p. 249 |
“I have
been a licensed day care provider in my home and was a foster parent for
nearly four years. As a day care provider and, I might add, one of the
good ones, every day I saw children yearn for their parents. Some children
cried when dropped off. Some cried for their mom at naptime. I have been
told by some older children that they wish their mom would stay home so they
could be with her…”
Category = Caregiver, Quality |
Parenthood by
Proxy,
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger,
© 2000, p. 249 |
“We are
both stay-at-home moms and day care providers in Salt Lake City, Utah. We
felt strongly about mothers staying home with their children before, but the
feeling has doubled and tripled in intensity as we have taken care of
children ten to twelve hours a day, who spend only two to four hours each
night with the people they really want to be with—their parents. All of
this, plus the desire to be full-time moms to our children, has helped us
make the decision to quit providing day care.”
Category = Caregiver, Quality |
Parenthood by
Proxy,
Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger, Harper Collins publishers, New York, NY © 2000,
p. 249-250 |
“We got in some
financial hardship, so I decided to work in a day care center, just so I
could stay near my baby. It was a nightmare. Most of the
children are depressed, afraid, and they do not understand time or when
Mommy is coming back (or is she ever coming back). It seems
like the teachers were always trying to make the kids behave and control the
crowd. So there is no time for personal attention. I was in the
best day care in the region…
This is not a
childhood! I quit and am very happy at home…even if we…have many
financial troubles.
How many people
do you know who would drop a brand-new Mercedes* in a garage for all
different people to drive all day long and pick it up at the end of the day?
I bet no one
would do that with a (expensive) car, but with a child…?”
* An expensive luxury automobilie
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