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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
To argue that babies
and preschoolers are better off spending the work week away from their
parents is not worth debating and is insulting to parents.
Category = Political, Quality |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
After working at the job for so long, (this
experienced daycare worker) knew that once she started picking up the
toddlers, they would all want to be held and the job would become a
nightmare.
Category = Quality |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
"Socializing” in daycare fosters
aggressive behavior because children are forced to go into survival mode.
As
a daycare child, if you want to play with a toy for any period of time, you
must fight for it.
Category = Behavior |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
If you are a daycare child, many if not
all of the following statements will apply to your life: You will not be fed
a meal on demand when you are hungry. You will wait for your food while you
sit in your seat. The meal will be plopped onto your tray or table. Someone
will come around occasionally to help you, but you must wait. When you are
finished, you will continue to wait. Eventually a wet rag will pass over
your mouth and hands before you are taken out of your seat. Hopefully, at
this point your bottle is ready. You will then be propped up on your pillow
that has the spit up of several others on it. Then your hands will be
maneuvered into position so that you may hold the bottle yourself. If you
happen to drop it, you will wait again until someone notices.
Category = Disease, Quality |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
While parents are busy at work at this
very moment, they do not know who is caring for their child. This is one of
the many absolute daycare-truths that is never spoken, or perhaps even
realized.
Many, if not most, daycare centers are open 55-60 + hours per week. This
means relief workers will be called in to take care of the children before
the regular workers arrive in the morning, after they leave in the
afternoons, while they take their lunch breaks, when they leave the room to
use the bathroom and when they are out sick.
Substitute “teachers” are frequently needed in daycare centers due to the
employees constantly being exposed to
illness and therefore
taking sick time.
Each time a worker does not arrive in the morning or leaves sick, an
unfamiliar or unknown face walks into the room. Therefore, children in
daycare are frequently cared for by strangers.
Category = Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Daycare is a business. Communicating
fully to parents often means disclosing a weakness within the “school”.
...I am imploring people to realize the very foundation of daycare is so
empirically flawed that it creates impossible situations for children,
caregivers, directors and parents.
Category = Caregiver, Danger, Economics, Regulation |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Daycare Is Not “School”
Throughout the book, I will continue to use italics when referring to
daycare centers as “schools” and daycare providers as “teachers” and daycare
rooms as “classrooms”.
It is common
practice to euphemize daycare by turning it into a school setting via the
language used. I choose not to do so. I believe schools are for
school-aged children...
Category = Caregiver, Development,
Economics |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Chapter 2 - THE DAY BEGINS
A day spent in daycare begins with abandonment. Staff members are prepared
for this and employ many strategies to lessen the daily blow.
Category = Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
What Parents Never See
I never chimed in with co-workers or directors when they told parents it was
fine to leave behind their crying child who did not want to see them go. I
never said he or she would stop shortly. I didn’t say this, because
sometimes children do not stop crying right away, and sometimes children cry
on and off all day for their parents.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Daycare workers are placed in a
difficult (situation). They know parents need to leave their children and go
to work. They know they want honest, frequent communication. They also
realize parents need to concentrate on their jobs when they leave. When
parents are told their children are miserable, all day, everyday, this does
not speak well of the daycare center. This is why parents often hear a
rose-colored version of how their child’s day is actually progressing.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
