desertvixen | (no subject)

Here's a thought.

Instead of all the scare-mongering and distorton going on after the latest day-care study to hit the news, how about FIXING day care? (Especially since even FATHERS were considered day care by its standards.)

How about creating standards? How about paying people a good wage to do this job?

How about we stop blaming mothers who need to work, and thus need to use this system?

As far as I am concerned, day care has been nothing but good for MV. We have an excellent center where the staff cares about the children they supervise, and don't have so many that it's impossible to do the job. They have administrators who work with the parents to avoid problems. She gets to be a social butterfly, be around kids her own age, and play with stuff we don't have.

Family daycare is not an option for us. Our nearest grandmother is 6 hours away, and I wouldn't leave MV with her anyway, as we do not agree on several tenets of childraising. Even if we did live closer to one of the other two, they work. They have lives beyond providing me with childcare.

Let's quit heaping more guilt on mothers and try to fix the problem.

DV (NOT AN APRIL FOOLS' POST)

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Wait, what are they saying now? Cripes, I hate the attitude in this country lately that the only valid career choice for women is SAHM.

Day care can cause behavioral problems in the sixth grade. "Problems" that are within the normal range.

DV

Gah. :(

Why only SIXTH grade? What about fifth grade? What about seventh grade?

I had a lot more problems in 6th grade than having been in day care when I was 3-4.

Obviously, these people have never seen "Daddy Day Care" or even "Mr. Mom".

I am primary non-parent care for my 2.5-year-old niece. There are days when -- even as much as I love the kid -- I can't wait for her to go to day care. (This kid knows NOBODY her own age. Her entire life is grown-ups.)

Fathers? Please. My father thinks 2.5-year-olds should be old enough to understand when he says there will be NO MORE MESSES. Little kids make messes, it's what they do.

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I'm interpreting your comment to mean that your opinion on the "father issue" is that fathers should a priori be considered incompetent.

I'm sorry to hear your father's an ass. They're not all like that.

In fact, I had pretty much the opposite reaction: they're thinking of fathers as a type of *day care*? Rather than, y'know, a type of PARENT?

Fathers were considered day-care? Watch out.. fathers are only as good as the apparently incompetent day-care centers!

I completely agree with you.

On a separate note, sorry for being such a bad friend. :(

((( )))

DV