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Who Cares? Making informed choices about childcare
by Vivienne Reiner, ByronChild Progressive Parenting (Australia),
p32-39 March-May 2005 |
Of course it is a rare parent who would put their babies in care if they
thought it was bad for them. ?The pain many parents feel at leaving their
infants in childcare is dulled by the belief by most that they like it. But
Under Five in Britain, a study of children in child-minding and day
nurseries in Oxfordshire, reveals most children do not like to be in
childcare. It finds that a startling two-thirds are passive and unresponsive
during their stay, with one-quarter being actively clinically distressed or
disturbed --- having deeply disturbed language development or sever
behavioural difficulties.
The survey concluded that no-one can replicate the mothering experience:
'there is no reason to believe minding someone else's children on a regular
basis is the same sort of activity as looking after children in one's own
home. Every bit of research that has been undertaken on this subject
testifies to the contrary.
Category = Behavior, Development |
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Who Cares? Making informed choices about childcare
by Vivienne Reiner, ByronChild Progressive Parenting (Australia),
p32-39 March-May 2005 |
(A common misconception about) centre-based care is that it
provides necessary stimulation and a proper learning environment for babies
and toddlers. Yet it is the very relationship between mother and child,
rather than a deliberate process of teaching or entertaining, that helps the
child develop, according to the author of The Continuum concept, Jean
Liedloff.
Category = Development, Politics |
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Kids in Care by Kate Caldwell,
ByronChild Progressive Parenting (Australia),
p39 March-May 2005 |
I am a formally trained primary school teacher but have spent
the last six months working as a group leader within a childcare centre...
My concern is with the children who spend a majority of their live within a
daycare centre.
I believe there are clear behaviour patterns which emerge in similar
distinction among these children. They are usually boisterous children who
crave attention to an excess of others; they usually gain some this required
attention through misbehaving
...their misbehaviour is usually more excessive and tends to be at a higher
rate in comparison to other children. I believe these children can often
become unstimulated with the day-to -day activities simply because they are
there every day.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
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Kids in Care by Kate Caldwell,
ByronChild Progressive Parenting (Australia),
p39 March-May 2005 |
Inevitably the (daycare) child ends up getting reprimanded
several times a day, if not more, and I can only wonder what repercussions
this may have.
Are these the children who move on to primary school and seem unaffected by
reprimand and punishment? Do these children continue to crave the attention
they have been missing from their parents and therefore continue to
misbehave at primary school and possibly high school? Are these possibly the
children who we see sitting in detention throughout their lives?
...Regrettably though, on the other hand, as someone who has worked with
both primary school and preschool children, I strongly believe there is a
well-built connection between an excess of in care time and behaviour
issues.
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Childcare -- how much is too much?
Dr. Peter Cook, ByronChild Progressive Parenting (Australia),
p10-13 June-August 2005 |
...how many hours per week is considered detrimental to a child's wellbeing?
An starting at what age?
This looks like a straightforward question, but it isn't.
...the question is really asking: 'How far; and in what ways, can we depart
from the biologically normal environment for a baby/infant/toddler without
having any detrimental effect?'
Category = Development |
Are kids sent to day care too young?
Macleans (Canada), 4 May 2006 |
"It's best for a child to be with its biological parents as much as possible
during the first 24 months of life," but parents routinely "parachute" their
children into day care at too young an age, says Dr. Jean-Francois Chicoine,
a pediatrician at Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal.
Chicoine argues that dropping months-old children off at day care prevents
both them and their parents from forging the strong maternal and paternal
bonds needed for healthy development.
He blames the now-widespread practice of early-age day care (in Quebec, at
least) on the advent of publicly subsidized day care in the province, a
much-vaunted system the federal government has tried to implement across
Canada in recent years.
"Kids that go to day care before 15 months have too many people involved
with their lives," he says. That, he adds, can lead to attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder and aggressive behaviour in older children.
It can also cause difficult parent-child relationships because children bond
more closely with day care workers.
His day care views appear in Le Bébé et l'eau du bain (The Baby and the
Bathwater), a recent (2006) book co-written with La Presse editorialist
Natalie Collard.
Category = Behavior, Development |
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