Daycare on Children My Grandmother, Thesis

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Research has found that children who go to daycare everyday and have to stay for long hours often become aggressive and don't mind adults well (Weitzman, 2006). They become uncooperative. Many of them get clingy because they are insecure. One author says that the children suffer "psychic distress" when they are constantly separated from their parents. Their health suffers because of so many children being all in one small space. Lice and ringworm are problems and other infectious diseases that children catch in daycare that they would not be exposed to at home. One study (Kay, 2005) showed stress levels are higher in daycare children who have higher levels of cortisol in their bloodstreams. There is also anecdotal evidence (like my grandmother's "evidence") that children in daycare bite each other in epidemic proportions. Biting is animal behavior. It implies a need for self-protection. Probably, children that bite don't feel safe, protected or secure. it's like they are on their own, and they have to survive somehow. They need to be with their parents. According to some experts, the increase of conditions like attention deficit disorder, separation anxiety disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder are the result of being deprived of their parent's supervision and love. Both parents work all day and are too worn out to pay attention to their children.
Some researchers feel that many of the problems young people have now are the result of lack of parental contact, problems such as "obesity, drug use, promiscuity, venereal disease, and poor scholastic performance" (p. 83).

Even the computers that are in daycare centers more and more may be bad for children. Too much time at the computer takes away from time playing. Children need to play. Playing a game on the computer is not a substitute for running, climbing, jumping, dancing and imagining. According to the International Reading Association, children need to use their imaginations in order to learn well and they need to handle real objects (toys and things), not just electronic images (Olfman, 2003).

A wonder if anyone has ever done a study where they asked the children what they would prefer. Would they rather go to daycare every day all day long, or would they rather stay at home with Mommy? A day or two a week might be fun to go to, but I bet most children would rather stay at home and be with someone who is thrilled with every one of their little accomplishments, who kisses them when they fall down, and rocks them when they ask......

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