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Comments for My_Better_Half
"Put the children first"
www.aish.com
18-Nov-01 |
My wife and I can usually tell in a few
moments which child is raised by Mommy and which is raised by a nanny or day
care.
When our first child was born three years ago, my wife wanted to stay home
to raise him, but she wasn't sure she could do it. Having almost completed a
PhD education, she was subjected to significant internal and external
pressure, lack of social supports, and the question of whether we could make
it on one salary.
My wife took advantage of her year-long maternity leave to solidify her
convictions, and at the end of that year she wrote a letter to her employer
informing them that she wouldn't be coming back as she now had a much more
important job--raising her son.
Baruch Hashem*, we now have two beautiful sons and there is a third on the
way. Raising children is not easy, but there is no amount of money in the
world that can buy what a mother at home provides. You can see the
results in the children, and you can also see the results in the mothers.
Give a life-long blessing to your children, and give a blessing to
yourselves -- put the children
first.
Category =
Politics, Quality
*
Baruch Hashem - Hebrew for "blessed is the name of God" |
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Nick Kozel, Demi Press,
2003 |
"When you pay peanuts (for
daycare workers), you hire monkeys."
Category =
Quality |
Insights Into Childhood
by Fred Rogers with Hedda Sharapan
2003 |
A mother told us what it's been like for
her in the early days of her son's first day-care experience:
'On the long ride home, I find
myself picturing Jeffrey running up to me with a big bear hug,' she said.
'But when I get there (to his daycare), he's likely to act as if he
doesn't see me at all. Once he even ran to his teacher and
cried that he didn't want to go home.
A couple of times he's been rude and grumpy to me and won't get his coat on,
so I have to pick him up and take him out the door
by force. What a way for our evenings together to begin!'
Category =
Behavior |
Charlie Hinton, Eddie Murphy's character
from the movie "Daddy Day Care", 2003 |
"Hey listen. Any boob can run a
child-care center.
It takes a family to raise some children."
*Film
critic Roger Ebert gave this comedy film a low one-star rating.
However, after viewing this movie ourselves, we did find this one worthwhile
quote.
Category =
Quality
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Alicia, 2003 |
"I can tell a
daycare kid from a mile away. They are in every adult's face saying 'Look at
ME!' because they don't get enough of it from their own parents".
Category =
Behavior |
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Sandy W., Mar 2003 |
"To a daycare, children are little bags
of money running around". 
Category =
Economics |
posted by "Cammie" on
christianforums.com forum, Women's Discussion: feminism in society
1-Sep-03 |
"We have children dying in daycare
because these childcare facilities are overloaded and understaffed. Babies
lie in cribs all day, not getting the attention and stimulation they
desperately need at that age. Daycare owners get by with the cheapest (and
not necessarily most nutritious) food they can find to cut costs and pocket
more money. And on top of it all, where I live, most women working 30 hours
a week, "occasionally" sending their children to daycare, are doing nothing
more than funding daycare, with 90%+ of their check going to pay for
childcare".
Category = Quality |
Posting on "Uniquely Repetitive" Blog:
15-Sep-03 |
Daycare centers are like human-sized
Petri dishes.
Category =
Disease |
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