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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, Preface |
I will admit to being surprised--no, amazed--that
a whole generation and a half of women who have been so easily enraptured by
the suggestion that what they have to give their child is easily replaced by
a nanny, babysitter, or day-care worker.
Category = Politics |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.6 |
(sarcastically)...if you knew you were
going to be recycled and come back as an infant with a choice, you'd choose
a mommy, a nanny, a babysitter, or a day-care worker for yourself with equal
enthusiasm--right?
Category = Politics |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.26 |
I have never, and I mean never,
in thirty-two years of radio, had a nanny, full-time babysitter, or day-care
center worker ever tell me that after her job experiences she would ever
turn her kids over to nannies, day-care centers, or babysitters!
Category = Caregiver |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.26 |
Many women wrote me with horror
stories about day care. One woman grew up in a home where here mother did
day care. She said that almost all of the kids she watched were moody, mean,
or rude, or displayed other such bad behaviors--mostly to get attention.
Remember that squeaky wheel*?
*From the old saying, "The squeaky
wheel gets the grease".
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.29 |
Dr. Laura, the first time I heard you
call day care a warehouse (or day orphanage) I was offended.
Category = Politics |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.30 |
But day care is an enclosed and limited
experience where children have an enclosed and limited experience where
children have to fight to claim attention, or withdraw from the pain of it
all.
Category =
Behavior |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.30 |
No matter how technologically and
aesthetically spectacular a day care is, no matter how prestigious and
expensive or cheap and available, there is no way on God's earth it can
even compare to, much less surpass, the loving presence of a mother.
Category =
Quality |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.70 |
I just love hearing the argument that
day care is good for children because they get to become independent from
parents (at six months?) and socialize (at one year?) in ways they can't
with a momma. At one time, day care was seen as a temporary measure--sad,
but sometimes necessary--meant to rescue parents in dire straits. Now,
however, some are actually touting day care as superior to care by a mother.
If your mother is an unconscious druggie or drunk, running a bordello from
her home, immaturely neglectful, or so mentally incompetent as to be
nonfunctional, I guess that statement would be true. However that is the
rare exception and not the rule.
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History, Politics, Quality |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.106-107 |
(One ex-child-care
worker) wrote that she was a preschool teacher in a day-care center before
she became a mother. She thought she loved all the kids as though they were
hers. They did seem hers in a way, because she spent more time with them
than their parents spent; she played with them, kissed their boo-boos, gave
them snacks and lunch, changed their diapers, and rocked them to sleep for
their naps.
When she later became a mother, she realized that she never had loved those
children; she liked them a lot and enjoyed her job. Mostly, thinking back,
she felt sorry for them.
Category = Caregiver |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.108-109 |
I visited at least
twenty of these (daycare) "facilities," and I must tell you how shocked and
saddened I was by my experience. I can't tell you how many I walked into,
and the little tow- and three-year-olds who could talk would say, "My
mommy's coming to get me," with little distraught looks on their faces. Or,
"When is my mommy coming?" I can't tell you how sad it made me feel to see
these kids in these centers with no real love...
Category = Behavior |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.109-110 |
I was leaving a
grocery store when two day-care workers each rolled a ten-child stroller
across the parking lot and into the day-care center. Just as the final
stroller was pulled through the door, I glanced up to meet the eyes of a
shy, adorable youngster. At most, he was two, as were all the "cargo" of
unsmiling, unhappy-looking kids.
I was about to get into my care when he suddenly broke into a frown, threw
his little arms toward me, and cried out, "MOMMY!" in the most
heart-wrenching voice--and then he started crying. The dour worker glared at
me and disappeared with her brood into the day-care center.
Category = Behavior |
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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms
by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
©2009, p.110 |
It's hard to imagine
that it doesn't matter to children whether or not they're herded by a nanny,
day-care worker, or babysitter, or cuddled by mommy.
Category =
Quality |
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