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Northern Indiana | My apologies if I sounded self-righteous. I've kept quiet about the issue of daycare for a long time, but I won't any longer. I've been involved in that issue on both sides of the fence, and I'm here to tell you that daycare is not good for little children, and it's time we start to understand that. How do you know that your child has turned out super? How can you be sure that your child was never traumatized in the environment? I'll be honest with you - you don't, and he was. Your child had to compete for attention, fight for the right to be who they were, and constantly be subjected to stress and germs. Daycares hire mostly low-quality people who are willing to work for low pay. Daycares are concerned with staying in business, and if that means filling a room with way too many kids, with not enough workers, then so be it. Daycares always put the most positive spin on the environment. They decorate and play music and do everything they can to make it seem as if everything is just wonderful. But what they won't tell you is how your own child or children are handling that lifestyle.
I didn't intend to imply that parents are bad because they put their kids in these places. Most parents make their decisions based on what they're told or what they see. But the bottom line is that you can't observe your children and what they deal with during the course of their days in those environments, and I know for a fact workers won't fess up either.
Children need their mothers - it's a biological fact. From infancy up until at least 3 yrs of age, you can actually harm a child emotionally if that child is forced to be seperated from mom for more than 2-3 hours a day. We know it's not good, educators know it's not good, pediatricians know, and churches know, but we don't talk about it anymore because of the angry reactions we get when it's brought up. These little people are fragile, and I'm convinced that it's just plain cruel to force a baby or a little child to grow up in a place where it is impossible for that child to be loved the way they need to be. Again, I congratulate this couple for wanting to make some changes, and I hope they can make it work. | |
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Working with wife full time
