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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children?
by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 291 |
Space...is also subject to economies of scale.
Prue Walsh, a play environment consultant, described some of the physical
environments in crèches, and decried the fact that more space was devoted to
the childcare car parks* than to space for
playing.
"...They just want to cut costs and maximise profits. It has resulted in
child ghettos and baby factories."
*car parks = parking lots
Category = Economics, Quality |
Motherhood - how should we care for our
children?
by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 291-292 |
In Child Care In Context, there is a photo of
Chinese babies at crèche. They are in a circle, their little bare rumps
planted on potties. Their faces are blank. They are being encouraged to
defecate or urinate on command, to save the energies of caretakers who have
so many to care for. Joint pottying is an efficient economy of scale.
Category =
Economics, Quality |
Motherhood - how should we care for our
children?
by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 294 |
Centre-based care has inbuilt breakages in
continuity and fragmentary experiences even when caregiver stability is
high, as a baby shifts from the babies' room to the toddlers' room and then
to the room for older preschoolers. For a twelve-hour day, morning and
afternoon shifts will be needed, while replacement staff will be needed for
holidays and sick leave.
Category = Behavior, Development, Quality |
Motherhood - how should we care for our
children?
by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 296 |
Part of the smoke and mirrors* of McDonaldisation
is the trick that quantity means quality. We can see this in the illusion in
the system of childcare. On the outside of a childcare centre there is often
a list with little stars beside them such as:
-Open long hours, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
-Babies welcome
-(etc.)
Some of these items are clearly against the interest of children (like
babies being taken at any age, for long hours) yet are presented as just one
more impressive item on a hit list of virtues.
*smoke and mirrors = something that distorts
or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful
deception.
Category = Politics |
Motherhood - how should we care for our
children?
by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 297-298 |
The potato used in McDonald's is standardised. It
is not too small or too big or a squiggly shape--but the product of
engineering to create a neatness of fit between the potato and the
institution of fast food...
Whole fields...are filled with this one sort of potato. The standardised
potato emerges within McDonaldisation because that system, with its premiums
on efficiency, calculability and predictability, selects out one kind of
potato which possesses certain competitive advantages.
There is in McChildcare the equivalent--a strong impulse towards a
standardised child. The smooth operation of the institution is best served
by the not too small, too sensitive, too shy, too quiet, too reserved, to
dreamy, too sniffly, and especially not too attached child.
Category = Politics |
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