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Quotes from web articles about daycare:
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Daycare: Why it hurts Babies and Toddlers
by Yvette Whitaker, home.netcom.com, 1999 |
What Are A Baby’s Needs?
We're probably all familiar with the extreme example of the orphaned babies
who died from a lack of touch and other related evidence.
Assuming that you accept your baby's need to be held, cuddled, touched (a
LOT) - do you think he is going to be held enough if he lives most of his
life in a room full of other babies making equally time-consuming demands on
the few available adults? Do you really think anyone is just going to sit
around and rock him and pet him while three other babies protest their dirty
diapers and another one clamors for lunch? In a daycare situation, a baby's
need to be kissed, tickled, admired, stroked, petted, and hugged a great
deal will go unmet.
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Daycare: Why it hurts Babies and Toddlers
by Yvette Whitaker, home.netcom.com, 1999 |
In a daycare environment it's unlikely that a
baby will find someone amongst the underpaid, overworked staff to love him
like a mother. He's not going to get much attention unless he has an
immediate physical need and that is likely to be met fairly mechanically.
The person changing his diaper may be friendly and warm and even tickle his
belly, but by no stretch of the imagination does the diaper-changer love
that baby the way she loves her own child. The adults may be amused when the
baby does something new (assuming they notice and recognize that it's new),
but they are just not going to feel the pride and delight that any loving
parent feels and can't help showing in response to their child's
achievements. It's this pride and delight that the child needs to see
reflecting at him in someone's eyes. It tells him what to think about
himself.
What's really heartbreaking is that even if a daycare baby does get special
attention from someone and manage to form an attachment, that person will
probably disappear suddenly from his life. The staff turnover at daycare
centers is phenomenally high.
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Daycare: Why it hurts Babies and Toddlers
by Yvette Whitaker, home.netcom.com, 1999 |
So what do all a baby's needs boil down to?
A Mother...An ever changing group of
busy impartial adults in a daycare nursery do not combine into an adequate
substitute.
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Quotes from web articles
about daycare:
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04/30/2008
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