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: 10/26/2005 3:15:00 PM Author: Terri Subject: making a preschooler wear an infants bib! My first response to this post was definately that I felt it wasnt a health issue for the child at age 4 to require a bottle for liquid nourishment, it was a psychological problem with the parents. They want a baby not a child! they are missing most of the day, and feel they are doing extra good when they return from work by giving extra "care' in the form of bottles, bibs, and I guess next it will be a binky! sick sick sick I disagree with rudi that it is "abuse" to manipulate the child this way, but i dont agree with what they are doing. I feel it is becoming more typical in our society...guilty parents working full time, handing their children over to others to raise, and then either bribing them with material things or babying them way beyond the baby years, to soothe their guilt. The baby act is very transparent to me, and makes me cringe. I have parents that arrive at daycare with 45 pound five year olds swaddled in a blanket in mom's arms as if carrying a newborn! I always want to say"Is this a show for me you are putting on? or is it to fool yourself?" But of course, I dont. However, I have said (sweetly with a hint of sarcasm) "Oh, is there a new baby at the house??" Good parenting is hard to find! Nobody understands that better than the teachers who work with young children. I truely am very concerned for the future of our nation. Name: Email: Subject

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