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Daycare: Why it hurts Babies and Toddlers
by Yvette Whitaker, home.netcom.com, 1999 |
As I mentioned, I picked out a very "excellent"
daycare for my son, but nine times out of ten when I walk in there's an
infant wailing in a swing. He's blotchy and wet
enough to have been crying for a while. Every single daycare I visited in my
search for the best had at least one blotchy wet infant available for
inspection. A couple of times it upset me so much that I offered
to pick the baby up, but the staff took a dim view of this.
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Daycare: Why it hurts Babies and Toddlers
by Yvette Whitaker, home.netcom.com, 1999 |
The staff are not cruel or negligent people, they
just have a lot of other kids who need to be fed, diapered, changed, etc. If
they put down one kid to attend to the crying newborn, the first kid is
going to start howling. That's just the way it is.
The newborn is learning a very important lesson as he calls out in vain from
the swing and no-one can counter it for him with explanations.
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Daycare: Why it hurts Babies and Toddlers
by Yvette Whitaker, home.netcom.com, 1999 |
Consider an older baby who needs to start
encountering some boundaries. When he graduates from the nursery to the
toddler room, the ratio of children to caregivers is going to jump even
higher. There may be seven or more kids to one adult.
Imagine being responsible for seven boisterous, obstinate, high-energy
toddlers. Even if they were all your own, you would have trouble maintaining
your equanimity. But these are all other people's kids. You have no real
authority over them. You have no real stake in how well they learn to
cooperate. You might not even know them very well. There may be some real
misbehavers among them -- children whose parents are lax with discipline at
home because they're too tired to deal with it or can't bear to ruin the few
precious hours they do have with their babies. What do you honestly think
will be the outcome of this situation?
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Daycare: Why it hurts Babies and Toddlers
by Yvette Whitaker, home.netcom.com, 1999 |
Most daycares claim to disinfect toys before
they are shared, but if you spend 10 minutes in the nursery watching the
action, you will wonder as I do how this can be practically achieved.
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Disease |
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