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The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998, page 9 & 10 |
(Day care children must interact
with a large number of caregivers).
..."Split shifts to cover
the long nursery day double the number of people with whom babies must
interact. Lunch breaks, sick leave, vacations and in-service
training courses produce such constant staff movement that
case studies suggest an average of seven
different people a day and 15 a week (some of them strangers "filling in")
handle each child.
-- Penelope Leach
This is built-in
churning, (Penelope) Leach* notes. On top of
that you must add all the turnover that occurs whenever there is a change of
center or arrangements.
*Penelope Leach
- famous British
maternal and child expert
Category =
Quality |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998, page 10 |
There is widespread agreement among child
development experts that instability in caretaking can seriously interfere
with a young child's development.
Category =
Development |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998, page 10 |
"The child is thrust into the care of some
strange person, disrupting the bonds established with the mother. And
just when he sends out some tender, new shoots of affection, he gets a new
sitter," explains child psychiatrist Jack Raskin. "The child can't
shout, 'My heavens, every attempt I'm making to get the closeness I need is
sabotaged. What the hell is being done here?' But you'll see the
results, perhaps five years later when he's disruptive in school, or ten
years later when he's on drugs."
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Behavior |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998, page 10 |
Fear of abandonment is a primal human worry...The
oldest theme in literature is that people can't simply be interchanged one
for another in affairs of the heart. So is it really so hard to
understand why children might suffer from being disconnected from the people
they love most? And as wrenching as lost loyalty and love are for
grown-ups, they are even harder for children -- because children are forming
their very first attachments and have no other bonds or sense of worth to
fall back on.
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Development |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998, page 12 |
After studying hired child care in depth,
in both its non-profit and for-profit forms, White (Burton White, former
director of the Harvard Preschool Project and one of the world's leading
authorities on the first three years of life) pronounces it "a
total disaster area," with "no feasible way of turning it into a model
industry". Most families will find only "pretty poor substitutes"
for parental care when they look outside the home, he warns.
Category =
Quality |
Last updated:
02/13/2005
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