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Book |
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Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 79 |
A 1998 paper by
Dr. Edward Zigler...stated that “…children who have experienced early group
care tend towards assertiveness, aggression, and peer rather than adult
orientation.”
Category = Behavior |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 79 |
One study from
the University of North Carolina concluded that kindergarteners and first
graders who had been placed in the “extremely high quality daycare center”
run by the university…were more likely to “hit, kick and push” as well as
“threaten, swear and argue” than their at-home counterparts. These
children were described by teachers as having “a serious deficit in social
behavior.”
Category = Behavior |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 79 |
Another study
from Texas found that a history of extensive day care was a good predictor
of eight-year-olds receiving low rating from teachers in the areas of
compliance, work habits, peer relationships and emotional health.
These children also earned lower grades for classes and conduct and were
more difficult to discipline. The negative effects were not diminished
by a higher quality of care.
Category = Behavior, Development |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson,
© 2003, page 81 |
While day care
advocates constantly tout the advantages of “socialization” that
center-based care (allegedly) provides to infants and toddlers…a study
published…in the Child Study Journal found that, contrary to the
expectations of the researchers, one-year-olds with little or no day care
experience consistently behaved more “prosocially” than their peers with
more day care experience. The conclusion: that “the only significant
predictor of pro-social behavior” was a lack of day care
experience.
Category = Behavior |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page
82 |
...there is
actually no evidence that such benefits (gains in vocabulary and memory) are
conferred by day care. In fact, the massive effort to cast day care
for infants and toddlers as an advantageous component of early preparation
for learning in school is a deception.
Category = Behavior |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson,
© 2003, page
84 |
There are other indications that
day care actually retards intellectual development. One study in
England, for example, found that six-year-olds with extensive day care
histories had lower language skills than peers raised at home. (This
discovery was even more surprising to researchers in that the group of day
care children studied were of a higher socio-economic status on average than
the at-home group.
Category = Development |
