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The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
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22 |
Committees of the American Academy
of Pediatrics recommended...that to avoid chronic infections and childhood
epidemics, children under two should be cared for only in the company of
their siblings if at all possible.
...Large groupings and groups with turnover among the children ought to be
avoided when children are young, they suggest.
This, obviously, would exclude most day care centers.
Category = Disease |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page
22 |
And there are public health
issues associated with day care beyond just those of disease transmission.
Phyllis Weikart, a University of Michigan professor of physical
education, has implicated increased day care use in the sharp decline over
the last generation in the physical motor skills of children. Today's
youngsters are considerably less likely to learn physical skills and games
from older siblings, playmates, and role models than they once were.
Day care creates single-age ghettos where there is less transmission of
skills and information of all sorts across age boundaries.
Category =
Development |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page
22 |
Now a brief word about daycare
"quality". In the national research (including the latest N.I.C.H.D.
[The
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development]
study that activists misrepresent as exonerating day care), two facts are
clear. The first is that when you get right down to actual effects on
individual children, the differences between "good" programs and "poor"
programs are not large.
The second reality is that in even
the very best full-time day care situations, large numbers of children
(often a majority, depending on what is being measured) end up showing some
sign of maladjustment. Problems occur not just where the care is of
low quality but also among children in the most careful and expensive forms
of hired care -- one-on-one nannies, and university lab schools, for
instance. This is quite clear in the research, and the best way to
summarize it may be to say that excellent day care
gets less disappointing results than crummy daycare.
Category = Quality |
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07/03/2011
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