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[quote=Anonymous]My mom was a hippie, LLL type who was really interested in child development.  She wasn't openly judgmental, especially not about the usual stuff, but I know she stopped providing child care because it made her sad.  This was when professional women needed to behave much more like men, and take home a lot of work, and men still weren't picking up much of the slack, so a lot of these mothers were very stressed, and kids who were sick or needed a mental health day or extra attention weren't necessarily getting it.   She felt (and I remember agreeing and feeling a difference in these families) that these women were very disconnected from their children and that the children were not getting their needs met.  They just seemed so lonely.  She didn't judge the mothers for working, but it just upset her that there was no way to prioritize the kids.

What she DID judge was feeding children a low-fat diet, which was popular with "educated" upper-income women at the time.  OMG.  That made her insane.  There would be some poor nervy kid with allergic shiners and dull skin and no energy whose parents were all about preventing heart disease and she might make some gentle educational comment (because of course she was absolutely right).  But then later at home, she just lost it and ranted.  I think she really worried about these kids, their CNS and immune development.  That was another reason she stopped doing child care, because she wasn't going to lie to the kids' parents in order to feed them properly, but she could not stand to see their health issues, especially next to her own healthy children.  [/quote]

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