We are damaging children
 

Whats your opinion about this childcare guru saying children are being damaged by attending nursery etc.Ive never heard of him. Personally I think hes off his rocker.
is the government going to fund parents more so they can stay at home to look after these children? More money for the poor tax payer.:irked: :irked: :irked: :raspberry :raspberry :raspberry :gnasher: :gnasher: :gnasher:

well i'm not sure, is the answer.I can see that children would/might be "damaged" by poor quality childcare.But honestly, I'd love to see a time where parents/mum or dad COULD stay at home to look after their own children.I know i'd be out of a job,but I increasingly worry about our acquisitve society, by which i mean, it's not that all parents HAVE to go to work or we don't eat this week.Rather, I worry about the "I must have" society that demands a bigger house/better car/two,or even three, holidays ayear/gym club/golf club/must do lunch club/yoga club which in turn robs us of affordable housing for oour children, and quality time spent with our children too. I'm feeling really jaded today, sorry:sorry: :weepy: :wide-eyed :paperbag:

Biddulph focuses his warnings on what he estimates is the 5% of British parents who “slam” their children into nursery for a large part of their day from the age of six months
He believes nothing can provide an equal substitute for one-to-one care for a child under two, ideally by a parent. He argues that infants’ brains need to be stimulated by loving interaction if they are to develop properly
Nannies, he says, can work well as a halfway solution but only if parents are “extraordinarily lucky” with the person they find. He says, however, that care by family or friends is “a much safer option”.
Last year Penelope Leach, an authority on childcare, issued a similar warning after finding that young children looked after by their mothers did better in development tests than those cared for in nurseries, by childminders or relatives.

“The best nurseries struggled to meet the needs of very young children in a group setting. The worst were negligent, frightening and bleak — a nightmare of bewildered loneliness that was heartbreaking to watch.”