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Two Studies Link Child Care to Behavior
Problems by Susan Gilbert,
The New York Times, 16-Jul-03 |
The other study found that in children
younger than 3, levels of cortisol, a hormone associated with stress, rose
in the afternoon during full days they spent in day care, but fell as the
hours passed on days they spent at home. This study's researchers, from the
Institute of Child Development of the University of Minnesota, had earlier
found the same pattern in 3- and 4-year-olds.
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Two Studies Link Child Care to Behavior
Problems by Susan Gilbert,
The New York Times, 16-Jul-03 |
The study, which began in 1991, found
that the more hours the children spent in child care, the higher the
incidence of problem behavior and the greater its severity.
Over all, about 17 percent of the children had above-average levels of
problem behavior like disobedience and overassertiveness.
Indeed, the study found that the time spent in child care was linked more
strongly with children's behavior than was the quality of care.
Category =
Behavior, Quality |
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Two Studies Link Child Care to Behavior
Problems by Susan Gilbert,
The New York Times, 16-Jul-03 |
Susan C. Crockenberg, a professor of
psychology at the University of Vermont, cited other research concluding
that boys were more vulnerable than girls to negative effects of child care.
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Behavior |
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The Dangers of Day Care
by Jay Belsky, The Wall Street
Journal, 16-Jul-03 |
Contrary to the expectations (and
desires) of many in the field, the NICHD study shows that the more time
children spend in day care arrangements before the are 4 1/2 years old the
more aggression, disobedience and conflict with adults they manifest at 54
months of age and in kindergarten. These patterns remain even after taking
into account multiple features of children's families, as well as the
quality and type of day care that children experienced. Worse, spending a
lot of time in care predicted not jus t more assertive or independent
behavior, but more truly aggressive and disobedient behavior, as well.
Not that you'd know any of this from reading the NICHD's press release or
listening to many of the commentators.
And a weatherman reporting rain is against sunshine.
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Behavior, Politics |
Nurseries are safe and secure - but are they
bad for your baby?
by Rebecca Abrams,
The Daily Telegraph, (UK)
6-Dec-03 |
It was an eye-opening experience. Or
perhaps I should say an eye-shutting one, for it didn't make pleasant
viewing.
In the centre of the room, a five-month-old baby was crying with
frustration. Stranded on his back, he couldn't yet turn over by
himself. In the corner, a little girl of about seven months sat and
stared into the middle distance. She made no demands for attention and
got none.
Then there was the boy of nearly one, picked up like a sack of Pampers
and carted off to be changed. Clothes removed, bottom wiped, new nappy
(diaper) put on in three minutes flat. All this was done with
exemplary efficiency - all done without a single word or smile from the
young woman doing the changing, the entire operation
carried out as impersonally as if she'd been loading the dishwasher.
This was no Romanian orphanage*, but the baby room of a brand new,
beautifully appointed private nursery (daycare) in an affluent suburb in the south of
England, charmingly located amid majestic chestnut trees. Highly
educated adults fight for places here. To stand a chance of getting
in, they put their child's name down long before the birth.
The quotidian** neglect I witnessed may not be typical
of all nurseries (daycares), but certainly isn't exceptional either. Researchers
on one recent British-based study were so distressed by their observations
of some baby rooms in day nurseries (daycares) they needed debriefing sessions
afterwards.
*Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu's
Romanian orphanages were state-run child factories designed to produce
compliant subjects for the Romanian military.
No consideration was ever given to the
developmental needs of the children.
Studies showed that the orphans, sometimes lying quietly and unattended for
18 to 20 hours a day, were severely socially, emotionally and
developmentally delayed.
** Quotidian = happening every day
Category =
Quality |
Nurseries are safe and secure - but are they
bad for your baby?
by Rebecca Abrams,
The Daily Telegraph, (UK)
6-Dec-03 |
...There is a rapidly growing body of research
that suggests that nurseries (daycares) may well
be the least desirable choice of childcare for
children under two, especially for babies.
Category = Quality |
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