Why aren't we building 24hr DayCare Centers??

[pcgeek11]

They aren't rationalizations. They are reality. I know people who stay at home to watch their child. they are quiet, introverted, and don't like interacting with other kids.

I do my best so that my children will be raised and grow up better than I was. Going to daycare during the day is no different than going to school during the day.

eh, putting kids in daycare has great benefits. it allows the kid to build social skills and also get sick to build their immune system.

i've seen this first hand. my brothers kid has been in "daycare" with his grandma since he was like 3 months old. my sisters kid has been in a traditional daycare since he was 3 months old, interacting with other kids the whole time.

they are night and day different. sure, some of it is just personality, but a lot of it i believe is the one kid simply doesn't know how to interact with kids. we were just on a big vacation with many other kids, and my brothers kid would just kind of do his own thing where my sisters kid was running around chasing all of the other kids. my brothers kid also has a problem sharing, everything is his and his only, whereas the opposite is true of my sisters kid.

sure, purely anecdotal, but this isn't the first i've heard of this. our first born is 4 months old and my wife is going back to work at 6 months, and her mom is going to be coming and watching our kid at our house. but by the time he is a year or 18 months old, i want to put him in a more social day care spot.

You can be cared for by a relative and still not be introverted. Nobody said put them in solitary confinement.