Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 8/2/2003 1:05:00 PM Author: Barb Subject: Its great that you are able to make the ... It's great that you are able to make the choice to stay at home with your children; but it IS a choice, and those who choose otherwise should not be criticised anymore than you wish to be. Quality daycare DOES exist, and those who choose it are not doing damage to their children. My mother stayed at home with all 5 of us, and my sister and I are completely different due to birth order and any number of other factors. Children in quality day care DO grow up healthy and happy, in spite of some of the press which claims otherwise. Primary care in daycare may not be Mom and Dad, but it does give children a secure base from which they can grow and learn. In my infant department, we all are CDA trained and dedicated to giving the best care possible to the infants in the program. We have a 1:4 ratio, which we maintain RELIGIOUSLY. We do work as a team, but the babies bond closely with the primary caregiver, so that they have a "safe place" to explore their world from. I think the early socialization with children their own age is a plus, too. I have twin grandchildren who do not go to daycare, and I think they would be lost without each other for best friends and playmates. Name: Email: Subject

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