My typical day

[ScottTheFish]

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Since I think day care is healthy for a child, of course it isn't preferable. Their current situation seems normal and healthy to me. Of course I don't try to bash others on the head with the bizarre idea that day care makes someone a bad mother.

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Wow. Time in daycare is better than time with a parent, even with money issues aside? Good Lord.

Are you really telling me 40 hours a week in daycare and 10 with the mother is better than the other way around? And I'm the one with bizarre ideas?

You're really not too bright are you? Did you read this earlier?

I'll say it again. 4 or 5 hours a week of interaction with other kids away form home is GREAT. NECESSARY. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. I never said it wasn't. All daycare is not bad.

Was that somehow unclear?

I've said several times in several different ways daycare does not make someone a bad parent. I spelled out specific circumstances under which I consider it bad parenting.

I assume your kid will go to boarding school from birth through college. With so much rearing by strangers and so little time the parents, it will be the healthiest kid in history.

In your case I would buy it. Better yet just don't breed.

[Kablooie]

I think you're the one that's being persistantly a little bit on the dim side here. Previous posters are quite right in pointing out that daycare is helpful in socialising kids, and giving their immune systems a workout. Humans have never formed social groups that consisted of 1 parent alone with their children before the twentieth century, there is a huge amount of social and anthropological history that documents this. 40 hours of daycare is worse than 40 hours with a parent? Parent is ill/alcoholic/depressed/abusive - daycare is worse? Dream on.

I don't know what it is about some americans these days, they just have to tell everybody else how to live their lives in a complex and varied world, and there is no deviation allowed from their one true way. The last bunch to try this approach were the communists - it didn't end well for them i hear.

It's tough being a parent, there's no excuse for making it worse for people by laying down guilt trips on how much day care they use.

[Freudian]

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Wow. Time in daycare is better than time with a parent, even with money issues aside? Good Lord.

Are you really telling me 40 hours a week in daycare and 10 with the mother is better than the other way around? And I'm the one with bizarre ideas?

You're really not too bright are you? Did you read this earlier?

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Are you using caveman-weeks with much less time here? Where the hell did that 10 hours/week come from? If you think she spends that little time a week with her baby you shouldn't talk about the brightness of others.

Anyway, since you are in a rut with your moral arguing I'm putting you on ignore now. I have no doubt you will continue to preach to others how they shall lead their lives without me. Five posts is my fundementalist limit. I don't want to O.D.