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- From: ashley@oar.net (Ashley Burns)
- Subject: Re: Maternity lv and day care
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.170721.3761@oar.net>
- Organization: OARnet, Columbus, OH.
- References: <ddg-241292084132@dgregorio.mitre.org> <168CA793A.CREECH@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> <1992Dec29.151026.16185@trentu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:07:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.151026.16185@trentu.ca> xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory) writes:
- >
- >So far the followups to this post (the ones I've seen) have all
- >suggested that leaving the older child in care, even a few days
- >a week, will make the older child feel rejected and unhappy.
- >
- >Let me tell you about my friend who took her older boy out of
- >home-based care at age 3 when his younger sister was born, and
- >kept him out throughout her nine month leave. He was desparately
- > lonely. The baby was very demanding and wouldn't take a pacifier:
-
- In response to this thread I keep thinking: why don't mother, toddler,
- and baby all go to the toddler's daycare for a short time each week?
- I can't remember if the original poster had home-based daycare.
- My day care provider would probably love to have another adult around.
- I can tell she likes to swap baby stories--we often get talking at
- the end of the day. But I think you should pay her for the hours you are
- there: after all, she (or he?) gets paid for having people in his/her
- home.
-
- Question: does anyone have a male daycare provider/center worker that
- is not the father of the children?
-
- --Ashley, ashley@oar.net
-
-