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The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page 17 |
Childrearing of adequate quality is
inherently resistant to streamlining. "Raising several children is a
project that exacts a constant alertness and attention," comments writer
George Gilder, something social engineers "don't remotely understand when
they urge that 'society' do it." Pediatrician Herbert Ratner worries
that "nature goes out of its way to give each baby
a private tutor. We go out of our way to develop a litter situation."
Substitution of group care for parent care is both unnatural and
impractical, he argues, and it will eventually be regretted.
Category =
Quality |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page 18 |
I suggest an...analogy for the
typical day care atmosphere might be a nursing
home. There is often the same well-intended but ultimately
depressing air. As one mother described full-day centers, "you go in
there, and all these children are clutching their little possessions, and
they're looking around. They don't have any concept of time, so when a
door opens, they all look up, and when they see you're not their mother,
they look back."
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Quality |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page 18 |
Almost all day care observers
eventually comment on the constant hubbub.
"I couldn't stand the noise. From sun-up to sun-down, voices talking,
talking." writes Anne Husted Burleigh. "People," she argues, "were not
made for babble." "For ten hours a day, these kids have to interact
with about 20 or 30 kids," says day care worker Katie Humes. "Imagine
if we adults had to constantly be trying to get along with that many
people." For lots of children, suggested author Vance Packard after
making a series of day care visits, the daily experience "must be like
enduring a nine-hour cocktail party."
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Caregiver, Quality |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page 19 |
(Daycare)...means several things
for children, comments family researcher David Cayley. "it means
separation from the day-to-day world of home and neighborhood, it means the
loss of the opportunity to do what you want when you want to do it,
including sometimes just doing nothing at all. And it means the loss
of privacy and solitude."
Category =
Quality |
Last updated:
02/13/2005
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