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With all due respect, you sound like someone who doesn't have children. Most of the argumentation for "parents should stay at home and care for their kids" is b

by harryf 4y ago

With all due respect, you sound like someone who doesn't have children. Most of the argumentation for "parents should stay at home and care for their kids" is based a different world to the one we now live in - a throwback to times where we lived in small communities and child raising was more a group effort with grandparents and relatives helping out. Today 56% of the worlds population lives in cities. That means childcare is essential for socialising a child. A child at home with a parent until kindergarten is probably going to spend the first 4 years of their life in a small apartment with one adult, bearing in mind that many young parents are generally not well off. This is not healthy situation for the child or the adult.

tetromino_ 4y ago
> A child at home with a parent until kindergarten is probably going to spend the first 4 years of their life in a small apartment with one adult This is such a strange take. Do you really imagine you and the child will be locked up all day in your apartment? Most cities are not warzones or quarantine areas. Cities have playgrounds and parks, and the child will probably insist on going to one at the minimum daily. The local branch of the city library will have storytelling sessions at least once a week, likely more; and when the storyteller is done, there will be the shelves of early books your child will love to explore. Cities will have lots of kids of the same age group on your block, probably even in your apartment building; your child will inevitably play with them. There will be friends and relatives who will visit you and whom you will visit. Perhaps organized play dates with friends' kids who live further away. And some sort of local young family meetups, organized at the library or playground or via the local Facebook group. There will be parades, festivals, strolls through the historical center, beach days, museum visits, barbecues in the public park... Unless you make a deliberate effort to avoid all of that, your child will surely get socialized.
TheGigaChad 4y ago
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by harryf 4y ago

tetromino_ 4y ago

> A child at home with a parent until kindergarten is probably going to spend the first 4 years of their life in a small apartment with one adult This is such a strange take. Do you really imagine you and the child will be locked up all day in your apartment? Most cities are not warzones or quarantine areas. Cities have playgrounds and parks, and the child will probably insist on going to one at the minimum daily. The local branch of the city library will have storytelling sessions at least once a week, likely more; and when the storyteller is done, there will be the shelves of early books your child will love to explore. Cities will have lots of kids of the same age group on your block, probably even in your apartment building; your child will inevitably play with them. There will be friends and relatives who will visit you and whom you will visit. Perhaps organized play dates with friends' kids who live further away. And some sort of local young family meetups, organized at the library or playground or via the local Facebook group. There will be parades, festivals, strolls through the historical center, beach days, museum visits, barbecues in the public park... Unless you make a deliberate effort to avoid all of that, your child will surely get socialized.

TheGigaChad 4y ago

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