Furore Over Recent Daycare Studies

Hi,

If you’ve got any interest in daycare, then it’s hard not to have noticed the recent furore over daycare studies that suggest leaving your kids in daycare leads to bad behaviour.

If you’re in any way worried about these reports, then I want to put your mind at ease. The studies show that it’s the quality of the daycare that matters and since my readers tend to be a caring yet professional bunch I’m quite sure you’re not likely to do any damage by starting a home daycare.

I’ve just been reading a great blog post which counters a lot of the arguments that the media have been going overboard with lately.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Mark sent me a link to Emily Bazelon’s article, The Kids Are Alright, in Slate.com. She interviewed study’s author, Margaret Burchinal. The article is worth reading in it’s entirety.

One thing that is lost in much of the media hoopla is how little high quality daycare they found in their data set. Nearly all the families that used center-based care used low-quality ones, probably because they are the cheapest. They wanted to compare high and low quality daycare centers, but there weren’t enough kids in high-quality daycare for them to do a meaningful comparison.”

You can read the whole thing here: Daycare Round 2

Talk soon,
Mary Nightingale

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