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I wonder how hard that is to argue? We can afford for one of us to stay home, and we can afford the best nanny we could find, but we've sent our kids to daycar

I wonder how hard that is to argue? We can afford for one of us to stay home, and we can afford the best nanny we could find, but we've sent our kids to daycare because they can learn more from 4 teachers than one. Languages, cultural customs, social interactions. We see this again and again when they meet kids that have a single stay home parent or a nanny. They are more comfortable in social settings, they understand how to relate to other people, and they don't think people are strange for doing things differently. I'd love to see some data that shows that a mother is better than a trained baby sitter, is better than group care of some kind.

JauntTrooper 10y ago
There's a decent amount of developmental psychology research on the subject: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/documents/seccyd_06.pdf https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/documents/seccyd... https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200704/daycare-raising-baby https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200704/daycare-rais...
- jethro_tell 10y ago
  Interesting: >the more their teachers later reported that they do not work independently, did not use their time wisely, and did not complete their work promptly in grade school. I'm not raising kids to do homework. Real learning isn't copying from a book. It'd be interesting to look at this at a later date. Looks like these studies should have this data by now, since it started with kids in 1991.