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Time to put down knives and talk about child
care
by Rodney Chester, The Courier-Mail (Queensland,
Australia)
4-May-09
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(Brisbane lawyer and mother Tempe
Harvey) cites ... research which show long-term child care is potentially
damaging to children. Her aim is "to make Australians aware of the
catastrophic effect that the insitutionalisation of today's children will
have on them as individuals and on society at large 30 years from now".
She argues that all childcare funding be redistributed to primary care
parents, who could choose to pay for childcare services or just consider it
income if they choose to not work and care for their children
themselves.
Category =
Economics, Development, Politics |
The Flip-Flop Factor: Why Day Care Kids Don't
Play Outside
by Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times
6-May-09
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Outdoor play at day care centers is
often stifled because a child arrives wearing flip-flops or without a coat
or because teachers don’t feel like going outside.
Those were some of the surprising findings from a new study of children’s
physical activity in day care settings.
Many of their answers were unexpected. Day care workers keep children inside
if they show up in flip-flops rather than sneakers or if they don’t have a
coat on a chilly day. Sometimes, the entire class is kept indoors if one
child doesn’t have appropriate clothes for outdoor play.
...Some (child care) workers said outdoor play is too much trouble because
it requires time to bundle up kids during cold weather. Other staff members
just said they didn’t like going outside.
Category = Quality |
Slow the Preschool Bandwagon
by Chester E. Finn Jr., The Washington Post 15-May-09
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For all its surface appeal,
universal preschool is an unwise use of tax dollars.
(Part of the energy behind universal pre-K is school systems -- and teachers
unions -- maneuvering to expand their own mandates, revenue and membership
rolls.
...the overwhelming majority of studies show that most pre-K programs have
little to no educational impact (particularly on middle-class kids)
Chester E. Finn Jr. is the author of Reroute the Preschool
Juggernaut.
Category =
Economics |
Feminist pioneer's rethink: 'a woman's place
is in the home'
The Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
16-May-09 |
(From an article discussing The
Trouble with Working Women, a two-part BBC documentary)
According to ongoing research by Jay Belsky, a professor of psychology at
Bribeck College, Pizzey's* fears are being borne out.
Research done in America...claims to show that the more time young children
spend in care in their early years, the more aggressive and disobedient they
will be by the time they reach primary school. Belsky said the quality of
the care did not change his findings.
...He added: "I think there is some reason to question full-time childcare
beginning very early in life."
*feminist pioneer
Erin Pizzey
Category =
Behavior, Quality |
The myth of having it all
by Susan Flockhart, The Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
16-May-09 |
(From an article discussing The
Trouble with Working Women, a two-part BBC documentary)
When former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo said working mothers were
harming their children's long-term development by sending them to nursery
from a n early age, it prompted an outpouring of blogs such as: "If you
bought a puppy would you put it into a kennel in the morning and pick it up
in the evening?... So why have babies and put them in a nursery?"
Category =
Development, Politics |
The myth of having it all
by Susan Flockhart, The Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
16-May-09 |
(From an article discussing The
Trouble with Working Women, a two-part BBC documentary)
...when psychologist Jay Belsky suggests children who spend a lot of time in
daycare are more often disobedient at school, prompting (Sophie) Raworth to
question the wisdom of heaping guilt onto working parents heads. Intrigued
by his response - that guilt isn't always bad -
I call the professor at his Birkbeck College
office. "People often say, Oh but that's going to make parents feel guilty,
as if that were the functional equivalent of psychological murder," he
says...
Category = Behavior, Politics |
Day care, insensitive parenting stressors
UPI.com, 19-May-09 |
Day--care-center-based child care and
insensitive parenting might have lasting effects, U.S. researchers (Eunice
Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
suggest.
The study, published in the the journal Child Development, said the children
who, during their first three years, had mothers who were more insensitive
and/or spent more time in center-based child care, whether of high or low
quality, were more likely to have the atypical pattern of lower levels of
cortisol (a stress-responsive hormone) just after awakening when they were
15 years of age, which could indicate higher levels of early stress. These
findings held even after taking into consideration a number of background
variables -- including family income, the mothers' education, the child's
gender and the child's ethnicity...
Category = Behavior, Disease |
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