Posted on 02/12/2006 9:10:43 AM PST by tbird5
The Sunday Times - Britain
The Sunday Times February 12, 2006
Child guru says nurseries harm small children Sian Griffiths ONE of the world’s most popular parenting gurus is to warn that placing children younger than three in nurseries risks damaging their development.
Steve Biddulph, whose books have sold more than 4m copies worldwide, says that instead of subsidising nurseries, which do a “second-rate” job, the government should put in place policies to enable mothers to stay at home with their babies.
The advice signals a reversal of views for Biddulph, an Australian with more than 20 years’ experience as a therapist, whose previous bestsellers include Raising Boys and Raising Girls.
In his new book Biddulph will admit he has changed his mind because of growing evidence of increased aggression, antisocial behaviour and other problems among children who have spent a large part of their infancy being cared for away from home.
He argues that such children may have problems developing close relationships later.
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I think your point is that anything run by the Japanese is bad. Just like any gross generality, this one is wrong too.
Seen and addressed already.
"single mom" is an accurate term. Yours is a distinction without a difference.
Since they scrubbed the history of WW2 in their educational material....and nursery schools are encompased in the educational category...no, I wouldn't use any educational model based on deceit.
Actually, whether someone chooses to put their children in daycare or not is irrelevant since both are choices based on former choices good or bad that were made. Bottom line is people do what they have to do to live and people live the way they choose for reasons only they know. It really is no one's business. You nor anyone else should feel the need to defend choices. Decisions are hard but once made you cannot look back and make it different. It is what it is and we move on with the knowledge that we all have made some bad choices. Anyone with a brain knows a babysitter, daycare or anyone other than the mother or father is not the best scenerio for raising children BUT we do what we have to do (the same as our parents and theirs did) and we be the best that we can be and hope it all turns out. Is that not life?
I'm glad you know my wife better than I do. By the way, what should I get her for Valentines Day?
Go charm some snakes or something.
Oh please, get off your high horse. You know exactly what I meant but chose to portray it in the worst light possible. You have no idea how my wife works, and I can guarantee you that are children will be more well-adjusted than your self-righteous little brats (how can they avoid it) any day.
Exactly. So we agree on everything except the political correctness of the term "single mother"?
Go figure. :-)
Bottom line is people do what they have to do to live and people live the way they choose for reasons only they know. It really is no one's business. You nor anyone else should feel the need to defend choices. Decisions are hard but once made you cannot look back and make it different. It is what it is and we move on with the knowledge that we all have made some bad choices.
Then why on earth were you agreeing with Ninian in post 142? According to him, he's never made a bad choice or decision.
I don't now but I get so tired of someone posting some stupid article that anyone with a brain could have concluded. Then we argue back and forth about its value. Spock was right--some need a good whipping.
You don't need to be any kind of a guru to know this. All it takes is a little common sense.
"Parents who put their babies in day care are awful people "
Wow... compassionate conservatism at work.
That was completely out-of-line. Far beneath anything a FReeper should ever say to another FReeper.
Ditto. Furthermore, there is no such thing as single mom. Either they are widowed, divorced or unwed. Politically correct speech = single mom.
Now we are back to the beginning. He is correct in his response--don't be a single mom. Again, single mom has victim spelled all over it. Furthermore, who are these single moms that they think they have it any harder than some married couples. How do they know the finances of their neighbor? My point is no matter what a person makes (even the rich) they have their money spent even if it is donating it. Just because a person is not married does not give them special status in my book. And I am done arguing this stupid topic. SINGLE MOM=VICTIM. MOM equals dignity in my book.
Hey n00b, when twenty years worth of freeping tells you you said something stupid: believe it!
But the implication is that all single mothers chose to be single mothers.
Surely you don't think that is the case? Aside from the the turkey-baster crowd, of course.
I'm only a couple of FReeper years younger than you, tyger.
And you said something pretty unintelligent a few posts ago.
No need for it.
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