How much daycare is too much?
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| Thu, 03-31-2005 - 11:26am |
Did anyone see the Wall Street Journal today? An article on the "Personal Journal" page talks about two studies that are coming out -- one being the already referenced NICHD study -- that shows 45+ hours a week of day can do harm to a child. What I found interesting about it is that the NICHD study says *anything* other than mom care is other care!! What happened to Dad?
The other article, in the same section, is an article about how parents are outsourcing everything now, including potty training! The article states that parents will send a child to a batting coach instead of just playing catch in the backyard. Another service, that costs $60 an hour (!), will help teach your child how to ride a bike!
I don't have an online subscription to the Journal, so I can't post the stories here. Does anyone else have one?
mom_writer

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Who is working out five days a week? Every person on this thread has said 3 times a week. I see your point but I certainly understand the need to exercise.
When your children were young, you did not do anything after work in order to bond? No church committee meetings, no circle meetings, no meeting with friends? You came home and stayed? If your husband watched the kids, what do you suggest a working mother does when she has a husband unwilling/unavailable to watch the kids? Should the mother then stop all activities?
Since I don't have a spouse, I do take my children to the church nursery so I can go to committee meetings and circle. I have taken them to the gym nursery after work too (when I was working full time.) I do not feel it hurt our bonding time or our relationship. At all.
&nbs
Hey maybe they co-sleep and don't care if the kids nightwake all night from being overtired.
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I have been trying so hard not to say anything.
I am not the world's greatest speller.
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Mondo
i don't know cyducks...i guess i look at it differently.
at least there is *one* parent around while the other works. i can't speak for dual income families because i'm not part of one but based on the observation i have noted, i find it ironic to inform a child that you have worked hard all day to provide for them then turn around and include that you must now continue to stay *away* from them to get some sort of exercise routine in which is much more flexible for some than a work schedule.
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
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