How young is too young?daycare?
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How young is too young?daycare?
| Tue, 12-02-2003 - 1:00am |
If you have a career and you had a baby what age would you think is apropriate to send your child to daycare/dayhome after they were born?
I have a friend that is a dayhome provider, she has 10mnth old twins and she was provinding care for a 2yr old. Mom of the 2yr old just had a baby and she was back to work when baby was 4days old, in my friends care. It is only half days now, but she is soon going to be full time, the baby is almost 5wks. Thoughts?

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I asked this to you before, but you did not answer...so let's try again...
I am not foolish enough to think I
PumpkinAngel
Simply speaking for myself. . .but as a WOHM I have NO problem saying that I raise my children IN CONJUNCTION WITH their father, family friends, child care providers, coaches, teachers, clergy, etc.
MY issue with the sahm mantra (understandably used by some, not all sahm) that they sah in order to raise their children is that it negates the importance of others in the child rearing team and implies that others are raising the children of WOHMs INSTEAD OF (not in addition to) their parents.
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Edited 12/11/2003 3:36:09 PM ET by pumpkinangel
PumpkinAngel
You didn't put in the time. The best caregiver you could find for your baby was an inexperienced 19yr old, (most certainly preocuppied with other things), university student. Not to mention, you couldn't be bothered putting in more effort than that required to look down your own hallway for a caregiver. And found someone you could pretty much "make" do your childcare. Its a novell way of helping to pay a child's way through university though, if you forgot that in order to work to help the first through, after she was all grown up and in no need of childcare - her younger sibs still would be.
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Or some might say, if your family is truly your priority, you recognize that even though a teenage daughter in university is the easiest person to bribe into doing your childcare, an inexperienced 19yr old is far from the best childcare option available, and doing childcare is far from the most suitable job for a university student. No matter how closely her dna resembles the baby's. Or yours.
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Same? Who cares. Things can be better, or just as good, without being the same.
What they aren't getting is a chance to develop any kind of self confidence or sense of personal responsibility. They fear and mistrust the world and have no clue how to function within it.
Kids need to know how to be individuals while belonging to a herd and functionning within it and contributing to it. Human beings are social animals. To pretend otherwise...well you are wondering where all those problem kids come from? Thats where alot of them come from. From families who don't value any social group beyond the family.
Problem with your play on my words is that I haven't seen many, if any, WOHMs claim that they are the ONLY ones raising their children- to the negation of other influences.
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