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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just wanted to share my thoughts about the concept of daycare [i]in general[/i]. I am wondering if anyone agrees with how I feel.  It saddens me that so many of us put our kids in daycare.  Daycare was my plan when I got pregnant with my first, but after a few weeks of it, I realized that I wanted to be the one raising DC and I quit my job.  I am lucky that we were able to afford to get by on just DH's income. I understand that, in this country (especially in the DC area, and other metropolitan areas like it), both parents often [i]have[/i] to work in order to be able to support their children.  I'm not trying to insult any families that are doing that.  My comments are more about the way we're living collectively in this country, where parents find it necessary to outsource the important task of raising their children to person or persons they barely know.  Is daycare a common thing in other countries, I wonder (e.g., the Scandinavian countries, where standards of living and quality of life are reported to be so high?) It just seems so unnatural to me...the idea of having people we don't know that well spend more waking hours with our little ones than we do.  Sometimes I wonder if it has something to do with the general degeneration of our society (in my opinion).  Thanks for listening.[/quote]

You make me sad....and MAD!!!
how dare you say in one post that you are not trying to insult families that put their kid in daycare and in the same paragraph make comments like:
"It saddens me that so many of us put our kids in daycare"
"I wanted to be the one raising DC"
"parents find it necessary to outsource the important task of raising their children to people they barely know"

Are you so ignorant that you don't see how insulting that is to those of us that put our kid in daycare?
To say to me (yes, ME, who has her kid in daycare) that I'm outsourcing raising my kid is not only insulting it's ignorant and narrow-minded.  Not to mention hurtful.

how about I'm broadening my kid's life?  I'm finding the best people to surround my kid with? how about, my strengths are not sitting around singing "wheels on the bus,"  and making crafts but instead are finding the best and the brightest to raise my child the best I know how?

People like you are the reasons SAHMs have such a bad reputation.  You're sitting in your house, alone, with an infant, not recognizing that you might not be choosing what's best for your kid, but rather what's best for you.  Why not come back to us when your kid is 4, scared to be around anyone else but you, can't read, and doesn't know how to use scissors because he or she has never made a craft before.  Then we can say how isolating your child from the world saddens US!!! [/quote]

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