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Mothering: The infant daycare experiment
includes related articles on attachment in babies and
government policies and babies by Peg Lopata, findarticles.com,
Winter 1993 |
While we say we are concerned about families and
children, we in fact value the worker above the parent. If we cared
seriously about our nation's children, we would be busily reorganizing the
economy to benefit families--rather than reorganizing families to fit the
9-to-5 economy, and then applying Band-Aid solutions such as increased
government daycare funding.
Category = Politics |
Mothering: The infant daycare experiment
by Peg Lopata, findarticles.com,
Winter 1993 |
Dr. Penelope Leach--who has been
studying infants, not daycare--offers (this) perspective. "We've let
ourselves be conned into believing that a commercial, professional
children's world is best for kids," she explains. "But daycare can seldom
provide the one-on-one interaction infants need."
Category =
Quality |
Mothering: The infant daycare experiment
by Peg Lopata, findarticles.com,
Winter 1993 |
Others contend that high-quality daycare in the
first year is not harmful. Most families, however, discover that
high-quality daycare is like Mary Poppins*--a fantasy. One mother of a three
year old who used infant daycare notes bitterly: "All that reading I did to
find out how to choose good daycare was a waste of time. What it boils down
to around here is when you can find an opening."
*Mary Poppins = A fictitious, magical nanny
featured the the book, Mary Poppins by P.L.
Travers. It was made into a movie by Walt Disney in 1964.
Category =
Quality |
Mothering: The infant daycare experiment
by Peg Lopata, findarticles.com,
Winter 1993 |
Waldorf* educator Rahima Baldwin (says), "The baby
in its first year of life is still totally connected to the mother's vital
energy and nurtured by it. Fulltime daycare is a shock for the baby and
can cause a tearing of the etheric** sheath
surrounding the baby.
*Waldorf schools are based on the education
ideas of Rudolph Steiner, an early-20th-century Austrian philosopher.
According to Waldorf pedagogy, education has to cater to and nurture a child
physically, emotionally and mentally.
**Etheric = Heavenly, Celestial
Category =
Behavior, Quality |
Mothering: The infant daycare experiment
by Peg Lopata, findarticles.com,
Winter 1993 |
While some infants reared out of the
home may get some of their basic needs met, they will rarely get the loving
attention that can only be given by a person irrationally in love with and
immersed in them--their "psychological touchstone." This type of loving
attention unfolds from unqualified devotion extending far beyond liking a
child to being palpably and unconditionally interested in that child's
most subtle physical and psychological signals. A secure attachment to
mother during infancy helps us form healthy attachments to loved ones in
later years.
Category =
Behavior, Quality |
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