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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Atlas has nothing on me. I have held up our household for so long that I don't know anything different.
I wonder, though, when I break who is going to clean up the mess? I am fairly positive I am back to work quite soon. Just at night and only when the kids don't have activities. Should be interesting....
Off topic: We used to have a gerbil that hated the ball. I would put little Hamlet in and he would glare at me. I rolled it once and he just went flop, flop, flop. I swear he would not look at me for several days. Of course, Hamlet was quite the gerbil. He loved the vacuum and was very personable. I am still sad he is gone.
A guy at my church is named Hamlet. I always want to tell him I had a gerbil named that but he is older. I don't think he would care.
&nbs
Mondo
Oh no. Hamlet would just run to his cage and stand on his hind legs when the vacuum came near.
He died of old age--he was four. Poor thing was even graying.
&nbs
::::waving hand:::: Um, I am. And I personally believe that *some* form of exercise should occur daily. I would agree that weight/resistance training of some kind can probably manage at 3 to 4 times a week, but cardio, imo (and supported by most recent findings) should occur daily.
I don't, however, believe daily cardio has to be limited to alone time and could probably be managed in some form accompanied by (or in the presence of) small children.
Karen
"A pocketknife is like a melody;sharp in some places,
"take the gym out of the message and replace with the *bar* or the *mall* without your child when that child has already been without (you, the parents) an entire day."
Then your comment becomes completely different. Excersize is a *need*, going to the bar or mall is a *want*.
Excersize is just as important as providing for a family. If a parent didn't excersize he/she might not be around to provide for said family.
If you had the choice of the situation you have now- with DH work horribley long hours, or both of you working outside the home 40 hours a week - which would you choose?
Well, I'm not a dual income family either, so I don't know why you even mention it.
The FACTS are that you claim WOH hinders the bond between parent and child. The FACTS are that you claim unless the PARENT (not Mommy, you said PARENT) is at work, there is no excuse good enough to justify spending one more additional second away from the child's presence unless it is the parent's intent to compromise the parent child bond. And the FACTS are that your dh works longer hours than practically any WOHM on this board. And yet WE are the ones you criticize and not your dh's hours. And now it's okay because you're home, so your dh's bond is what?
It's a lame, bogus argument and insupportable by your own logic.
Karen
"A pocketknife is like a melody;sharp in some places,
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