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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](also know so many many many kids with bad emotional regulation and ADHD who went through Daycare from an early age, and the parents will never make the connection. it's too far out in time.)[/quote]

Wow, you should tell them! You have to share your wisdom.[/quote]

Right. that's why our whole society needs to listen to the science on this, and support parental leave. It shouldn't be a guilt-ridden Mommy Wars issue, it should be something we all agree to do for our children. [/quote]

"the science" is not one study or blog post. It is a set of studies of varying quality. Different people have come to different conclusions about what the results of the existing studies actually mean. The author of the blog post cited by OP clearly has an opinion on this, yet has not been willing to put their actual name on it. There are much more nuanced summaries of the evidence on this issue where the authors have actually been willing to stand behind what they wrote, including:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/202002/the-deal-daycare-what-do-the-data-denote
https://parentdata.org/day-care-bad-children/

It saddens me to hear that some parents have left the workforce based on an anonymous blog post, though I'm hopeful that they simply used the blog post to justify the choice they would have made anyway to stay home, which is a perfectly valid choice.

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But the nihcd study is pretty much bad news actually.  Only 11% of daycares are excellent and so the effect for ~90% of day care kids is therefore negative unless you come from a very troubled home?  It basically just reinforces the blog post.  What am I missing? [/quote]

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