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Book |
Quote/Comment |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p11 |
Insisting that
divorce, daycare, TV, a consumer-driven society, parental neglect, and other
forms of normative abuse have nothing to do with suffering children is like
saying that smoking has nothing to do with cancer...
Category = Politics |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p11 |
I want to be clear about the issue of daycare.
Daycare is not for children...
Daycare is artificial and against nature...
Depositing a child in daycare...is unnatural, unhealthy and wrong.
Category = Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p12 |
Daycare is a system of institutional care that
cannot give children what they need, no matter how caring or how hard care
providers try.
Category = Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p12 |
Dropping children off at daycare to be retrieved
when convenient is normative abuse. Does this sound harsh to you? Think
about how harsh it is for an infant to be separated from her mother.
Category = Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p13 |
Daycare mentality is based on survival and leads
to a narcissistic society. Narcissism happens when a child's trust has been
betrayed and he believes he has to take care of himself because he finds
himself to be alone.
Category = Behavior |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p13 |
...Incarcerating a child in daycare at six weeks
or six months is no different than sending a six-year-old to boarding
school. Daycare provides the socialization and stimulation of a prison.
Category = Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p13-14 |
Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen has written about the
devastation of collective child-rearing in nonparental settings such as the
(Israeli) Kibbutz. This
unnatural approach of mass substitutes for day-to-day parental care of
children produced sad, dull children incapable of intimacy and masses of
mentally ill adults.
Category = Behavior, Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p14 |
Child development
expert Edward F. Zigler of Yale University warned that young children placed
in daycare centers may be psychologically harmed by the trauma of separation
from their mother on a level comparable to the horror of thalidomide
(Thalidomide caused severe birth defects.)
Category = Behavior |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p14 |
I recently overheard a conversation in which a
father stated that his wife earned less than the cost of daycare for their
two children. This is nuts.
Category = Economics |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p14 |
I have observed a dozen daycares.
...the children only received attention during feeding and changing.
Category = Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p14 |
Infants in daycare usually give up and typically
become apathetic, and toddlers aggressive.
Category = Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p15 |
After a time, many daycare providers become
complacent when faced with the impossible task of meeting the many needs of
these small children who are so dependent.
Category = Quality |
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Organic Parenting
by Koko Preston,
©2009, p15 |
Small children who attend daycare are exposed to
and suffer communicable
diseases many times more than those who do not.
Category = Disease |
