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Originally Posted by MissMisa
This is going nowhere, lol. I just disagree with you.
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I am just asking you to explain why, because it seems to be the opposite of logical to me.
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Just because parents work, doesn't mean their child is being raised by strangers.
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For most of the waking day the child would be raised by someone besides his parents.
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I didn't say it was more or less ideal, I just said it was as ideal.
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Ideal means best. You said it was more ideal for a child to be raised by someone besides his parents. I say it is ideal for a child to be raised by his parents.
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Originally Posted by MissMisa
You seem to think that working = omg no time at all with child!
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For a baby or a toddler those 8 or 9 (or more) hours away from one's parents are an eternity. Work will always be there, but a baby is a baby and a toddler is a toddler for only a little while.
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The average shift here is something like 7-8 hours. There are 24 hours in a day.
In the UK, full time is around 30+ hours a week. So to make that, you'd work about 4 days a week if your shifts are 8 hours. Dad works Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Mum works Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
So that means the kid spends two days out of seven in day care - which is probably how long you'd put the kid in day care if you were a stay-at-home mum/dad anyway.
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We've done this before
A baby sleeps like 12-16 hours a day. It sounds like you have very short work weeks in the UK. In the US 40 hours a weeks is considered standard, then you have to add in commute times. That's a big hunk of one's day.
Yes, if parents can arrange their schedules so that one parent is with the child all the time, that is great! That's what I have been saying from the beginning!
If one of the parents is a stay-at-home parent, why would you ever need to use daycare?
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Even if you both work 5 days a week, you still see the kid all weekend and every single evening. If the child is happy, what does it matter? You can't tell me that most children are unhappy at daycare, if a parent thought their child was unhappy they wouldn't put them there!
And if they do they are a bad parent, working or not.
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As I said, work will always be there. A child is a child for a few blinks.