Does Day Care Produce Bad Acting Kids?

I am not opposed to Day Care as a last resort, however I do firmly believe that Day Care can cause some real behavioral problems among children. So even though I think they should be used for last resort I also believe there is a trade off. You may need Day Care but at the same time your child needs extra attention to make sure they are not developing any behavioral problems.

When parents have a choice whether or not to send their kids off to Day Care or have one parent stay home I definitely think the parent must step up and raise their kid and not ship them off to some facility. But I also believe some school systems right here in America breed the same results. Not everybody can home school, but in an ideal world one parent could stay home and raise the kids and home school while the other heads of to work for the day to bring home the bacon.

I was just reading an article about how they have proven poor behavior is directly linked to the amount of time a child spends in Day Care. Though this may be true it also says that the biggest influences are parents guidance and genetics.

A much-anticipated report from the largest and longest-running study of American child care has found that keeping a preschooler in a day care center for a year or more increased the likelihood that the child would become disruptive in class — and that the effect persisted through the sixth grade.

The effect was slight, and well within the normal range for healthy children, the researchers found. And as expected, parents’ guidance and their genes had by far the strongest influence on how children behaved.

But the finding held up regardless of the child’s sex or family income, and regardless of the quality of the day care center. With more than two million American preschoolers attending day care, the increased disruptiveness very likely contributes to the load on teachers who must manage large classrooms, the authors argue.