How much daycare is too much?

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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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Registered: 02-11-2005
Fri, 04-08-2005 - 6:40pm
because daddy has worked hard all day to provide for child, which is shared over and over by mother here ~ versus ~ some circus of passing the buck to satisfy a parent need that in many ways, is *more* flexible than daddy's work schedule.
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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 6:54pm
That's as likely as your child being harmed for life for spending an extra hour or two in daycare each week.


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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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 6:54pm
You're a regular here too now, you know ...


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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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 6:57pm

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So, a wohm who spends 3 hours at the gym, and still gets teh same amount of time with her kids as the daddy in your example, needs more time but he doesn't? because his time is quality? hers isn't?



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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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 6:58pm
You are the only one that insists the extra time is actually 1.5 hours and nightly. You are the only one that insists that it results in McDs 5x a week. In your example, tFamily B does have a problem, imo. But that isn't what is happening with most of the wohms who take their kids to a gym dc.


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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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 6:59pm
And the kid whose mom sacrfices excercise says, while at the park, " I wish mommy would chase me around the big toy. But she's always too tired. And she pants when she does it for a minute or two. I wish she wasn't so fat so she could do that."


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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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 6:59pm
My dentist has evening hours.
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Fri, 04-08-2005 - 7:00pm

roflmao


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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Registered: 02-11-2005
Fri, 04-08-2005 - 7:04pm

huh? please show me *where* i am saying that wohps are spending 5X a week at the gym.

i have used words like normal, regular. quite frankly, the 5X is something i accept guilt on ~ 5X/1.5 hours at the gym as the only time away from my children.

you do the math.

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Registered: 02-11-2005
Fri, 04-08-2005 - 7:06pm

lol.

sorry for the ot spin again but that reminds me of friends in the midwest whose dh were ob/gyns. they had the funniest stories about the frills of having a dh for a gyn ~ yea evening hours in the hot tub. lol.

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