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You Are Not My Kid's Mom,
by Diane Fisher, Clinical psychologist and mother of three, published in the
The Saturday Evening Post, posted on dadi.org/daycare.htm, 6-Sep-00,
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The pace of an individual child's day, the sorrow
or wonder, all delicacy of feeling and reflection, is lost in the
steamroller of the curriculum-driven day. Story after story, rhyme
after rhyme. line up, run outside, potty, snack; through it all, one
senses most of these children are quite alone...They must long for a gentle
moment, for just a second of eye-to-eye soulful connection, but how can
these besieged caregivers provide that?
The workers are here on overlapping shifts from six in the morning to
six at night or even longer. The best centers take pride in their
one-to-four- ratio of providers to children, but this ratio still means that
infants interact with several caregivers during the day. The
mystery of an individual child's unfolding inner experience, the miracle of
time with an adult who loves you is replaced with the relentless
cheerfulness that has led so many of us to hate Barney*
* Barney -- Obnoxious 6-ft tall purple dinosaur character on children's TV show by same
name that debuted in 1988.
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You Are Not My Kid's Mom,
by Diane Fisher, Clinical psychologist and mother of three, published in the
The Saturday Evening Post, posted on dadi.org/daycare.htm, 6-Sep-00,
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6 & 7 |
Whatever happened to rocking chairs, whispered
songs, soft blankets, and dim lights? Are we just arguing aesthetics?
Or is this the Brave New World*? One day I observed a
caregiver cradling a baby horizontally at her waist, swinging her gently in
an attempt to induce sleep. The overhead fluorescent fixtures, the
cacophony of other toddlers, the swaddling in a blanket discarded a moment
ago by someone else--somehow it didn't seem conducive to slumber. As
she stood rocking in the midst of the bright noisy room, the caregiver
looked at me ruefully and said, "She's fighting it!" And well she
should.
*Brave New World -- A. Huxley's horrific science fiction novel's vision of the
future, published in 1932
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