Link: Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care - New York Times.
The headline should be: "Great Behavior Is Linked to Time in Quality Day Care".
Poor behavior in day care graduates is only ascribed to those children in substandard day care. I am frankly becoming quite unnerved by the volume of messaging attacking daycare as a general concept. Given the necessity of dual-working parents across most income demographics, it's not a useful construct.
My two children are successful graduates of daycare. I think daycare has provided additional stimuli and social benefits that we could not have provided under any other scenario.
Art, I was wondering if you could comment on the factors you weighed in trying to choose a good daycare. My wife and I are going to have our first baby tomorrow and I can see that in the future this is a bridge we may cross. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Enjoying your blog!
Posted by: Cameron Schaefer | January 16, 2008 at 10:27 PM