Comments on: Do we REALLY value our children? http://www.theparentingcoach.com/blog/2008/06/23/do-we-really-value-our-children/ babblings! Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:17:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: barb http://www.theparentingcoach.com/blog/2008/06/23/do-we-really-value-our-children/#comment-22298 barb Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:19:40 +0000 http://www.theparentingcoach.com/blog/2008/06/23/do-we-really-value-our-children/#comment-22298 Holly, you make a good point. That is definately one of the consequences of paying people poorly. If they find a better paying job, they move on. It's really hard on young children when they get used to someone and form a trusting relationship and a short time later, the person leaves. I'm not sure where the woman from Denmark got her information from when she said people who put their children in daycare here are seen as "neglectful". I think her point was they we don't view daycare in the same way they do. Congratulations to your 2 year old for learning how to count to 10 in Spanish and English!! Wow! Holly, you make a good point. That is definately one of the consequences of paying people poorly. If they find a better paying job, they move on. It’s really hard on young children when they get used to someone and form a trusting relationship and a short time later, the person leaves.

I’m not sure where the woman from Denmark got her information from when she said people who put their children in daycare here are seen as “neglectful”. I think her point was they we don’t view daycare in the same way they do.

Congratulations to your 2 year old for learning how to count to 10 in Spanish and English!! Wow!

]]> By: Holly http://www.theparentingcoach.com/blog/2008/06/23/do-we-really-value-our-children/#comment-22296 Holly Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:55:13 +0000 http://www.theparentingcoach.com/blog/2008/06/23/do-we-really-value-our-children/#comment-22296 Thanks for the insight from a different perspective. Daycare is viewed in the US much the same way it is in Canada and daycare workers are very low paid. I have my daughter in daycare 2 days per week for socialization and learning, and it has been a positive experience. My biggest complaint is simply that there is a very high turnover at her center - due mostly to the fact that the workers make a disgustingly low wage and eventually get into "real teaching", which is also a disgustingly low paid career in this country as well. I think that this is indeed very reflective of how we value our children. I pay my babysitters very well - and I do it happily - because I want them to be nice to my daughter and play with her and not do anything that I don't want them to... I don't feel as if I neglect my child...my daughter is only 2 and she can count to 10 in Spanish and English - not sure I could have taught her to do that on my own. Now we are working on ABCs.... Thanks for the insight from a different perspective. Daycare is viewed in the US much the same way it is in Canada and daycare workers are very low paid.

I have my daughter in daycare 2 days per week for socialization and learning, and it has been a positive experience. My biggest complaint is simply that there is a very high turnover at her center - due mostly to the fact that the workers make a disgustingly low wage and eventually get into “real teaching”, which is also a disgustingly low paid career in this country as well. I think that this is indeed very reflective of how we value our children. I pay my babysitters very well - and I do it happily - because I want them to be nice to my daughter and play with her and not do anything that I don’t want them to…

I don’t feel as if I neglect my child…my daughter is only 2 and she can count to 10 in Spanish and English - not sure I could have taught her to do that on my own. Now we are working on ABCs….

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