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Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 10 |
While most humans apparently exhibit the
same daily pattern in which cortisol* is
highest in the morning and falls in the afternoon, the day care children
tested showed exactly the opposite pattern: Their cortisol levels were
higher in the afternoon than in the morning. In other words, their internal
stress, unlike that of other people, had apparently been mounting through
their institutionalized day.
*Cortisol - a
stress-related chemical
Category = Behavior |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 10-11 |
Biting is one of the chief reasons that
children are expelled from day care and preschool.
...many babies and toddlers in institutional care bite and bite a lot. They
bite themselves, one another, and, of course teachers and adults, too.
Why is this fact so remarkable? Because it doesn't happen elsewhere the way
it does in day care.
...chronic biting...is not the way children, even very small children,
ordinarily behave.
(This is) clear evidence that day care is causing aggressive behavior.
Category = Behavior |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P12 |
What, after all, is the mental state of a
bunch of babies and toddlers who take up biting as a habit? And we
can all figure out the answer to that without reaching for the social
science bookshelf: These kids aren't happy.
Category = Behavior |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P12 |
...the weirdest dimension of our day
care wars so far is the insistence by such (daycare) advocates*
that what most people think is bad news--more sick kids and worse-behaved
ones--is actually good and maybe even great.
*Eberstadt calls
such people, "separationists".
Category = Politics |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 19 |
In sum, the real trouble with day
care is two-fold; one, it increases the likelihood that kids will be
unhappy, and two, the chronic rationalization of that unhappiness renders adults less sensitive to children's needs and
demands in any form.
Category =
Behavior, Quality |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 19 |
...infants being packed off to
hostile-style rows of cribs called "schools," toddlers who go for
institutionalized walks roped together like members of a miniature chain
gang -- this is what the (daycare) experiment means day to day.
Category =
Quality |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 76 |
Full-time breast-feeding...requires
mother and baby to be in proximity to each other pretty much around the
clock. In other words, what is required to get the medical benefits of
breast-feeding is inimical to the common practice of day care.
Category = Disease |
