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The great nursery debate
by Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian (Britain)
1 October 2010 |
Some, such as the child psychologist and
Guardian columnist Oliver James, use the evidence to consolidate a strongly
held belief that nursery care is not appropriate. His position on putting
small babies into daycare is clear. "My advice would be: Don't do it."
"There is no evidence that daycare is advantageous to children from
middle-class families," he writes in his most recent book, How Not To
F*** Them Up, "and there is considerable evidence that it increases the
risk of dysregulated cortisol levels, aggression, disobedience and emotional
insecurity, especially if the care is of low quality. Unfortunately, this
latter is the norm..."
He continues: "There is now overwhelming evidence that daycare causes
children to have abnormal cortisol levels, probably increasing the risk of
behavioural problems like aggression, fearfulness and hyperactivity."
"If daycare is as distressing to under-threes as many researchers believe,
it would not be surprising if it affected their cortisol levels: when
distressed we usually secrete the hormone."
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Behavior, Development |
The great nursery debate
by Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian (Britain)
1 October 2010 |
(British Child Psychologist and
Columnist) James no longer really dances around his conviction that babies
are best at home with their mother, or possibly their father; if that is not
possible, he offers a hierarchy of substitution that runs: "Daddy is better
than Granny is better than Nanny is better than Minder is better than
daycare." In earlier books, he says he was at pains to avoid the controversy
that surrounds this issue, and stressed that if mothers felt depressed by
staying at home, then childcare might be a better option. In How Not to
F*** Them Up, he devotes a chapter to the subject, highlighting in
detail his concerns about nurseries for babies. "Let's stop lying about this
and pretending it doesn't exist as a problem... it really does. How are
mothers going to make good decisions, if nobody is warning them about the
real situation?" he says.
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Behavior, Development |
The great nursery debate
by Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian (Britain)
1 October 2010 |
Sue Gerhardt, the author of Why Love
Matters and The Selfish Society, also writes about the effects of
cortisol, but is critical of nursery care for broader reasons. She sees them
as concepts favoured by parents, for their convenience, reliability and
cost, but not geared towards the needs of children.
"I have a lot of clients who say that they are putting their baby into
nursery because it needs stimulation, and actually that is just not true,"
she says.
"What happens at nurseries is you have the kind of relationship that you
have at a party. You meet someone, you do small talk, you might find it
pleasant or it might not be. That person isn't really tuned into you. Then
you move on to the next person. It is not really a relationship where
someone is tuned into you. At nurseries, the turnover is so great that it is
very difficult to achieve that kind of relationship," she says.
"More and more people are being given the idea that nurseries are fine for
children of any age and that is not the case. It's just about money and
convenience."
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Behavior, Development, Economics, Politics |
The great nursery debate
by Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian (Britain)
1 October 2010 |
Penelope Leach's work on childcare has
been read by parents for decades. She, too, is concerned by the emerging
research on cortisol and is sceptical of governments' preference for
nurseries, arguing that they tend to be attracted by economies of scale.
Category = Behavior,
Development, Economics, Politics |
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