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Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 36-43 |
...there are two distinct patterns of nursery
care (daycare) usage...
In private, childcare researchers have come to call these two groups
'slammers' and 'sliders'.
Slammers are parents who 'slam' their child into nursery care as early in
life as possible, and for as many hours a day as they are permitted…
Sliders, by contrast, are parents who only place their children into nursery
care gradually, and often much later...and usually for much shorter periods
of time each week.
…The big question in choosing between slamming, sliding or staying at home,
is what is best from a child's point of
view?
Category =Quality |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 42 |
(The findings of Catherine Hakim, a
researcher at the London School of Economics) had huge implications for
governments -- for instance, the massive funds poured into subsidizing
nursery care (childcare) might be better spent on subsidizing those parents who wanted
shorter working hours, or simply wish to stay at home and care for their
children -- and could do so more cheaply and better than nurseries could
manage,.
Hakim's work has strong statistical support, and has galvanized discussion,
since it allows for more diversity of choice, and is patently more
realistic.
Category =
Economics, Politics |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 45-46 |
(Cathleen Sherry, an Australian tenured lecturer in
law) told one interviewer:
'(Childcare) is like having a mother on her own caring for quintuplets. One
baby wakes and needs to be fed. Another is crying, needing comfort but has
to wait; they all have to wait their turn for comfort, affection, cuddles --
all the things that babies need ... In maternity hospitals, it is no longer
the done thing to have newborn babies lined up in a nursery with a couple of
nurses looking after them. That is seen as terrible. Mothers are strongly
persuaded to have their babies with them 24 hours a day. Yet six weeks later
is okay to put ten of them in a nursery with just two carers (daycare
workers). It doesn't
make sense.'
Category = Quality |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 51-52 |
In the early 1980s there was continuing disquiet
about infant daycare, but little evidence of harm...
Yet it made sense to be cautious -- half a million
years of childrearing was being tampered with, and we didn't know the
long-term effects.
...Then in the late 1980s, a number or studies began to report early
concerns. Children...who had spent long hours in nursery care from a young
age, were found by researchers more often to have 'elevated levels of
aggression and non-compliance' -- in plain language, they were hitting other
children and adults, and not doing what they were told.
...The studies were repeated and made more rigorous, since the findings were
not popular or appreciated by many in the field. When the results came in --
by now it was the early 1990s -- a trio of risk factors emerged...
These were:
1. Starting nursery care (daycare) very young
2. Attending for long hours each week (20 hours or more)
3. Being in this form of care over many years of their childhood.
In short, too early, too much, and for too long.
Category
= Behavior, History |
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