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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Actually the only one I know who bf only, no table food and no formula was wohm.
PumpkinAngel
Although we do homeschool as well, it is strictly for individualized educational purposes only. In our situation, homeschooling is not a "social experience", it is a one-on-one learning experience. In other words, she goes to school to socialize with her friends, and she is homeschooled so that she may learn and explore topics of interest that are personally meaningful and challenging to HER as an individual.
What's the problem here? Sounds like we have the best of both worlds to me LOL.
I do not think this is a teacher's responsibility at all. In fact, my dd's teacher doesn't even eat with the class at all. She has lunch in the teacher's lounge LOL. Sure, teachers probably do give an occasional hug, but that's about the extent of it. I guess the biggest difference between "caregiving" and "school" is that by the time a child reaches school age they are fairly independent and don't require much in terms of "caregiving" especially in a school setting when their friends are around.
I do not think teachers can be accurately compared to substitute caregivers. They are not caregivers. They are not babysitters. They are teachers. There IS a difference.
Edited 12/12/2003 1:59:52 PM ET by cyndluagain
And yet...you have the utter gall to put down and berate parents who send their children to dc/preschool as failing to care for their children 24/7, in spite of the fact that those children gain exactly the benefits that your child does (socialization, etc.), merely because you label it a "want" on the part of those parents. Frankly, my daughter have FAR more to gain and far more reason for being in preschool than your daughter does for being in school, and those reasons actually have nothing to do with me not wanting to have the responsibility (did ft SAHM thing for over 6 years after all) or my work being more important than my child or my being incompetent as a parent and, therefore, needing better care for her. *She* gains by it in a concrete fashion that would be impossible to provide at home (ignoring your odd and unrealistic theories about language acquisition). People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones....an old cliche, but an absolutely valid one.
Laura
Does that mean I shouldn't be a parent? Gosh, I sure hope not. I think part of being an adult is knowing what is best your loved ones, as well as what is best for *you* as an individual, and adjusting your life accordingly. For me, if I were in that situation, the very worst thing for my kids would be *not* asking for help, since I can't imagine that an overly-stressed and severely depressed parent would be the ideal for any child (and that is what I would be in your friend's shoes.)
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