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Book |
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Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Chapter 9 – NAPTIME
Naptime is the most blatant example of how a daycare center is not a home.
When a child is on a playground or eating a snack at a picnic table, one can
at least try and pretend that it is all right to be at “school” at the age
of fifteen months. When naptime rolls around, it is almost impossible to
keep up the façade. When looking in upon rows of
cots, mats, and
porta-cribs it becomes clear that a daycare center is actually not a home
and more closely resembles a childhood which has been caged and
institutionalized.
Category = Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Being an Easy Baby/ Child is a Bad Thing
When there are dozens of children to care for, the squeaky wheel will get
the grease. Sometimes parents believe their baby or child will do well in
daycare because they are easy, loving, agreeable, quiet, etc. I want to tell
parents that being agreeable is going to make daycare harder on these types
of children. The baby who screams will be held. The baby who is happy
sitting in a bouncy seat will likely sit there quite a while.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Children Do Not Learn To Socialize In
Daycare
From the many hours, weeks and months I have spent in daycare centers, I
believe very strongly that children do not learn positive socializing skills
while in daycare. I had a teacher colleague once tell me she would be
returning to work shortly and placing her 10 month old boy in daycare. She
did not want him placed in the infant room and was fighting to have him
placed in the toddler room so that he would have role models to look up to
and children to learn from. I wanted to tell her that her son would indeed
learn a lot in the toddler room but it would not be positive. He would learn
to hit and bite and fight for toys.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
Children do not learn socializing while
spending all workday long surrounded by many other little ones. Children
learn manners, the alphabet and early literacy skills from other adults.
They learn to share and take turns and play nicely with their siblings or in
small groups during closely supervised play dates. Adults are in short
supply in daycare and sibling interaction is very often limited. Parents
should never feel they are denying their children the chance to socialize by
avoiding child care.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up
In Daycare
by May Saubier,
©2012 |
I hear people say they wish they could
get a dog but cannot since they travel or work too much. It is rare to hear
people give children the same consideration.
Category = Caregiver, Politics |
