Daycare Centers – Their Effects On Children
These are not the only benefits of putting your child in daycare, though being able to get back at work so you can keep the home-fires burning and take care of the family better is a distinct advantage; the child at a quality daycare facility benefits from being in a safe, healthy and hygienic environment with needs for food, play and washing up all taking care of.
With other children also present at the daycare, from babies to toddlers to pre-primary or even primary school children (that come in after attending school), your child at daycare learns to live in a social environment and learns new skills such as communication, interactivity play and team games besides values such as sharing, table manners, importance of obeying rules and being in a structured environment. So, when your child is ready to go to school, he or she has some sort of foundational base already about performing in a structured environment thanks to daycare training! It’s much like thinking of daycare as your child’s first school and outside community living experience that helps him or her learn to interact with other kids â like a unique and playful learning environment.
Children make friends, learn to follow rules, play turn by turn, learn good habits such as nap-time and putting away toys after finishing with them; a good childcare facility will have trained personnel and teachers to involve children in a variety of fun activities such as painting, puppetry, motor-skills expansion games and clay or sand-play besides music, dance and reading classes so not only does the child imbibe a whole new world of play-way method learning but attending a daycare also reduces the chances of separation anxiety for them when they finally have to go to school.
Thus, daycare essentially makes it easier for both the child and the parents to adapt to school life better and faster, as basic number, alphabet and speech concepts have already been picked up by most kids attending daycare regularly besides important socialization skills.
Most daycare centers also encourage a classroom-styled environment for older kids about to enter proper school so they are not intimidated by the first experience at the school and thus it is sort of a preparatory step towards formal schooling â albeit in a fun environment.
Daycare facilities also have teachers on the payroll, many of whom supervise timely homework schedules being adhered to by older, school-going kids and also guide them on various subjects, so parent’s burdens are lessened.
Thus, with a bunch of benefits â from meals, nap, games, studies and safety taken care of by quality daycare centers, parents have a great deal going for them if they pick the right one for their child; but, of course, they still need to play the Mommy-Daddy once the child gets home, right from the hug, to the ‘how did your day go’ and ‘glad to have you back,’ routine â it works to keep the children feel loved and cherished.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/daycare-centers-their-effects-on-children–740387.html
April 30th, 2010 at 2:36 am
Do feminists care about children?
I only ask this because feminists have no qualms with abortion. In fact, they fight vigilantly for a woman’s right to murder a baby.
That said, I’m "pro-choice" only because I think a woman should only have an abortion only if the pregnancy and/or birth will have fatal or near-fatal health effects on the mother.
Furthermore, feminists are staunch proponents of women staying outside of the home to focus on careers and throw children at daycare centers and teenage drug-addict babysitters, and not being nurturers and caretakers of the home and family. Should women focus on careers? Of course! But why do so many feminists bash women that choose to be caretakers of the home & family?
So, this begs the question; since feminists love killing baby fetuses and not giving it a chance at life, and because feminists love women staying away from their children; have feminists downplayed the importance of children? Do feminists hate children?
Queen Bee: I like how sexist women continue to think that a father/man should have no say in the life of HIS son/daughter as well. Many women have aborted babies behind the father’s back when his father was looking forward to having the baby. The father was of course devastated. But who cares, right? He’s just a male. His opinion is worthless.
": 0 D"– yep, you’ve got me all figured out. Mommy neglected me and made me stay with drug-addict teenage baby sitters. You’ve certainly got me pegged. Nevermind the fact that I simply care about the welfare of children.
I love my cat: If the mother is not financially ready to care for the child, she should give it up for adoption; or better yet, a family member or friend that is willing, able, and enthusiastic to want to care for the child for her. Is it that hard? Go through the one-time pregnancy, then give it up. Simple. Don’t take his/her life away.
": 0 D" — Are you mad? I do volunteer work at a children’s hospital for burn victims and children needing artificial limbs. What do you do for children?
Speaking out on the internet is just one of many ways to defend children, man-hater.
April 30th, 2010 at 7:38 am
Stop sh*t stirring and ask a real question for once. As someone else below me has already pointed out, you have already made up your mind. It doesn’t matter what anyone writes here. You are not looking for an answer, you are looking to stir emotions and cause trouble, nothing more.
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:40 am
Feminists do not hate children, however, they value the life of a living, breathing, thought-forming, pain-feeling woman over a fetal blastocyst which does not form cognitive thoughts nor feel pain (look it up in the AJM)
There are over 60000 children waiting for an adoption right now, so let’s add to that? And on top of that, there’s at least a 2/3 higher risk of abuse in foster care, so let’s all put our kids up for adoption into that nightmare?
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Sounds like you have already decided what you think.
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:44 am
I am a feminist and a stay home mom. No one ever hastled me about it. Feminists don’t hate children they just don’t want more child abuse and overpopulation. No man can imagine carrying a baby. Where do you get your facts? Typical banter from a "pro-lifer".
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:46 am
No, we don’t hate children.
We just don’t like the idea of our entire existence being reduced to the equivalent of being a brood mare. Our lives shouldn’t revolve around the carrying to term and raising of children. It doesn’t for men, so why should it for us?
And if you tell me that the highest calling a woman can have in this life is to give birth and raise a child, I will vomit. That’s a choice some women make. Others don’t. That’s the whole point of feminism. We want to have a choice and a say, and not be defined by the fact that we happen to have a uterus.
Are you defined by the fact that you have male reproductive organs? I thought not. So don’t define me by the fact that mine are female. There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother. I should know–I didn’t have kids, and it was by CHOICE.
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Hey guess what? I couldn’t possibly care less what you think, or why – because you’re not the one who gets pregnant!
Your confused, jumbled diatribe is just an excuse to slam women anyway. I don’t care about you, or your "opinions".
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:50 am
buddy you need to do way more research befor you run your mouth , for real. feminist can be defined in many ways. it is an opion that a bundle of cells is an actual being not a fact, abortion is a moral issue which not all feminists agree upon, second i dont know what "feminist" your talking about, that bashes women who care for children. I being a feminist myself who cares for children have never once heard a feminist putting another women down becasue she is caring for their own children, but simply encouraging other activities and giving women the option of just more then the care taker of the family. serisouly you shouldnt talk about a subject you have no actual proof, or facts, of. it is plain to see you just took a few things you heard possibly from the tv or some other form of media , and came up with lame asssumptions.
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Pro choice does not equal feminist.
but posts like this do equal ignorant!
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Most feminists are highly concerned about children, about children’s access to healthcare, about children’s rights to decent education, and to the protection of their economic well-being. If women can’t work, then they can’t economically support their children. Even worse, if a woman has to stay with a violent or abusive man just to keep a roof overhead because of no money, the children are not protected. Poverty is one of the biggest threats to children. It affects every aspect of their lives into adulthood.
Also, most feminists support anyone’s choice to stay home and raise children, men and women. They encourage more participation from fathers in the raising of children. They encourage the rights of young girls who will grow up to be women. They also encourage flexible work schedules for both parents, to work around children, and they encourage accessible daycare for parents that have to work.
If a woman can’t afford to take care of a child, if she can’t feed the child, if she isn’t mature enough to have a child, how can she take care of the child? That is how a lot of kids end up abused, hungry, in foster care, and enduring a gluttony of awful experiences. Abortion can be the responsible decision.
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:56 am
your question is such a vast overgeneralization of feminists that its obvious that you just want someone to agree with you. of course feminists dont hate children! by your logic, since I eat meat, I hate all animals!
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April 30th, 2010 at 7:58 am
1. It’s not a baby. It’s a potential baby, just like a sperm cell is a potential baby.
2. Day care has never been proven to be fundamentally detrimental to children.
3. No parent in hell would ever willingly let a drug addict babysit their child; this is pure ageism on your part.
4. We don’t care if women want to be caretakers. Why do you?
5. Considering how many feminists have their own children and make them their top priority, and have fought for laws that would help parents and children, I’d say no. In fact, I like children so much that I’m not having them. I wouldn’t want any children exposed to the horrible mother I’d be.
By the way, I mentioned this question to my dad; his answer is "Duh, yes!" Consider yourself an addition to his ever-expanding Idiot List.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:00 am
My mother is a true feminist. The argument feminists make about it being the choice for the women and their bodies. Do not make the argument very well when considering the rights of the child. I believe women should be treated as equals in the eyes of the law. But a question of equality is if its the women’s body and choice why does a man not have choice. Afterall, the argument that won the law case in the supreme court was that it falls under a natural right law because it has been done for centuries in the past by women. My question would be if women have the right to opt-out because its their bodies. Why does the man have to support the woman and child after birth? Does his body not make the money?
I don’t know about the answer to your question. However, my mother does not support abortion. She is "pro-life" She calls the nazi-feminists man-haters and female chauvinist heifers(to compare to male chauvinist pigs). She stands for women as equals not betters. I agree with her completely.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Yes, I am sure they care about children. However, the details of your question reveal that you don’t care much about the truth. What a load.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Interesting point of view. I think it’s so stupid that women decide it’s "their body, their baby." Totally not true. She didn’t get pregnant by herslef. If a woman wants to abort a baby, the couple should decide on that TOGETHER. I’ve always thought that. It isn’t fair to the men. As for those women making fun of other women who WANT to be caretakers, that’s dumb as well.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:06 am
There’s nothing wrong with daycare, jeebus. In the state I grew up in, you had to have at least 30 units in Early Childhood Education courses in order to work at a daycare, but I digress. I would be pretty wary about leaving any child of mine with a random teenager though. I would have to know the kid’s family pretty well first, and even then I would probably have nanny cams all over the place. I’m paranoid and over-protective like that though.
And you don’t sound pro-choice to me. You support NOT giving someone a choice in all situations, so I wouldn’t call you pro-choice at all.
You seem to have made up your mind that feminists all hate children, and I happen to be one who does, but I didn’t always. For four years I was a feminist who loved children. I worked as an English tutor for kids in grades 1-8 my first year of college. I adored every single one of my students. They were so much fun! I didn’t start to dislike kids until I started working retail two years ago. In other words, my dislike of children is completely unrelated to me being a feminist and 100% related to me working at Target, where I have to hear screaming kids 40 hours a week. And even so, I acknowledge that I’m still 20 years old and might change my mind after I’ve been out of the retail world for a few years.
Edit: Yeah, it’s easy to say "just go through the one time pregnancy" when you are a man and will never have the experience of being pregnant. It’s not as easy as just "oh stay pregnant for 9 months." Your body changes forever after you have a child.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:08 am
There isn’t one woman who "loves" killing baby fetuses. I think you are trivializing situations to disparage people’s choices, which doesn’t get anyone anything but angry.
So by your logic, a woman who is raped should not be given the option? I find that ludicrous.
If you care so much about the welfare of children, what are you doing to make changes?
I don’t think you are looking at the whole picture, and are condemning women who make difficult choices. I give kudos to those who can stay home and raise their children and be able to afford it. Most people nowadays simply cannot. My mother, for example, had to go back to work when my father left when I was 10. I stayed at daycare so she could put food on the table and buy my school clothes. What is wrong with that?
The fact of the matter is that women are human, and like us deserve to have a choice as to how to live their lives. To force them to do what we think as men into stereotypical "what a woman should be" gender roles is counter-productive, and not to mention fruitless.
Let them decide what they want. They don’t fight vigilantly to murder babies, they fight for choice that they have an option whether they want to do that or not. As for the scenarios where an abortion is done in secret, that’s for the couple to take up together.
You are taking a very complicated situation and are trying to simplify it as if it’s no big deal. It is a big deal to the people having to make these type of decisions. It’s not as simple as you think.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:10 am
–If the mother is not financially ready, she should give it up–
Except that there’s nine months before the baby is born, remember? If the mother doesn’t have insurance, how is she going to get adequate health care to make sure the baby is healthy? What if she doesn’t qualify for Medicare? What if she has to go on bed rest and can’t work?
And the fact is that most young mothers wind up not giving up the baby once they’ve been through the pregnancy, even if their original intent was to put it up for adoption. Maybe this has something to do with hormones, but it is a fact. People keep going on about how irresponsible teen and single mothers are, well, it seems to me that women who decide to abort because they can’t take care of a child are being responsible.
And an embryo is not a person. The vast majority of abortions occur in the first trimester. The fetus, at that stage, cannot be considered a person, only a potential person. Most abortions after this period occur because of health complications in the mother, or because of birth defects.
I am currently a SAHM and a feminist. I do not feel "bashed" for my choice, but am glad that feminism afforded me any choice at all.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:12 am
I don’t know who, but someone in this section, hates children and oprah so much that they deleted my question which asked for help to put pedophiles away. That disgusted me, to know that people let their hatred for Oprah or whatever get in the way of us trying to help children, babies and toddlers who are being sexually abused. And it’s boys and girls, make no mistake about it. These people are sick, and those who reported that question, are even sicker. I guess I’ll lay low for now. I’m just too freaking disgusted by the whole thing.
One thing I’ll say, many women did star that question, and some of them were feminists. So I KNOW some care about children.
I see you changed your name.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:14 am
You can’t group all feminists as one philosophy. There are many different types of feminism. Not all feminists think it’s bad to be a stay-at-home mom. Not all feminists are pro-choice.
Anyways, there is no consensus as to when life begins, so you can’t say definitively that abortion is murder. Some believe life begins at conception, some believe once the umbilical cord is cut, and there are people who think it happens at some point in between. Thus, a feminist who believes life begins when a baby is born cannot be considered to hate children.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:16 am
As far as I know, feminists care about:
1. children being born wanted rather than as mistakes, and being raised by parents who can feed and clothe them decently and who aren’t drug addicts, drunks or criminals
2. want children to be well taken care of and that isn’t always by their mother – but it could be by the father or another relative or daycare
3. want children to attend good schools and be motivated to do well academically, so they might get tutors if necessary
4. want children to train for well paying careers, so feminists encourage girls and boys to attend college and seek out what they do well
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Why do people keep asking the same things?
Feminists don’t care about anyone but themselves, period.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Yes. Men, on the otherhand, declined to protect children and worked them nearly to death in dangerous factories and mines until feminists fought for Child Labor laws. Men today, as a voting block, persistently vote AGAINST every single measure that benefits children including school funding, all child nutritional programs, prenatal care programs, universal child health insurance, all quality childcare measures and attempts to enforce childcare standards nationally. Thanks to men as a voting block, the U.S. now has one of the worst infant mortality rates in the world, the lowest math and science scores in all the developed world, our college grads can’t compete in the global job market because men fought for "English Only" and now our kids are considered illiterate in international corporations compared to equally qualified candidates from other nations who are multi-lingual, one out of every four girls under 18 years old has a STD thanks to men voting against non-religious sex education and children are the largest demographic group living in poverty. Men commit 97% of all sexual assaults against children, abductions and murders. Men comprise the vast majority of parents who refuse to support their own children, per dead-beat parent stats in every country and state of the union. A woman’s chances of being murdered are greatest when she is pregnant and it’s the baby’s father who murders them. The child porn industry is fed billions of dollars every year by men. Child sex slavery is a booming business and nations like Thailand are visited by thousands of men from the U.S. who are sex tourists there to f*ck a child. And, the MRA "role model" Warren Farrell advocates that it is a father’s "right" to sexually touch his daughter. Feminists are the only hope children have in the U.S.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038249/
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26296
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/5000-child-sex-slaves-in-uk-437800.html
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:22 am
Of course they say they do, but their actions (e.g. encouraging abortion and sending women out to work in cra*py jobs full-time etc) tells a different story.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:24 am
I think Patois summed it up
In developing countries it has been shown time and time again that men spend more of the household budget on tobacco, alcohol and other luxuries whereas women spend more on food for their children > consequently children are better nourished and more healthy.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:26 am
I’m not a feminist, but I am pro choice. It’s not a gernder issue, I just think that because we don’t have a contraception that is 100% effective, there wil be accidents and I don’t think couples should have to have a child just because of that.
it ll depends how you think, to me a fetus which is just a few weeks/months old tghat is a bunch of cells is not the same as a child.
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