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Science Shams & Bible Bloopers,
How You're Being Hoodwinked by Know-Nothing "Experts" and Gassy
"Authorities"
by David Mills, © 2000,
pg. 165-166 |
From Part II: Pseudoscience affecting
Children and the Family,
Chapter 7: Myths of Parental Convenience
Myth: Daycare is good for children because they participate in
stimulating and educational activities and because they learn social skills
through interacting with other children.
Fact: The typical daycare center
provides the stimulation and educational opportu nity of a day in prison
-- and spreads far more infection and communicable
disease than the county
jail. Kids do not learn social skills through
interacting with other kids, any more than children learn to play the piano
through interacting
with other musically illiterate children.
Children learn social skills through observing and emulating adult
behavior.
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Science Shams & Bible Bloopers,
How You're Being Hoodwinked by Know-Nothing "Experts" and Gassy
"Authorities"
by David Mills, © 2000, pg. 166 |
Comment: Never leave your
child in the custody of a stranger. The fact that a daycare center is
"licensed" or "state approved" is meaningless. Even child abusers can
easily craft neatly-typed resumes with impressive-sounding references.
Category = Danger, Regulations |
The Irreducible Needs of Children --What Every Child Must Have to Grow,
Learn, and Flourish
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA ©
2000, Introduction, pg.
xii |
From the 1970s through the 1990s there has been a
transformation of the attitudes of families towards raising their own
children. During this time, there has been a huge increase in the
number of families giving up the care of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers
to toddlers for 35 or more hours a week. In other words, large numbers
of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are spending the lion's share of
their days in non-parental care.
More important than mere numbers are reports regarding the quality of
this care. These are not encouraging. The most comprehensive
study of the quality of day care reported that the vast majority of
center-based care was not of high quality: over 85 percent was not
of high quality for preschool children and over 90 percent was not of high
quality for infants and toddlers.
-- quoting S.W. Helburn et al. from "Cost, Quality, and Child
Outcomes in Child Care Centers", University of Colorado, 1995.
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