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The primary caregiver is the person who provides the majority of hours of actual "hands on" care during your waking hours. Your mother paid the daycare workers to be your primary caregivers. [/quote]

Whether by waking hours, by importance or by authority, my mother was my primary caregiver.  I don't remember any of the others.  And I wasn't scarred by the "severed attachments" when my caregivers changed every year.  I am sure they were all fine ladies who did a great job. I'm grateful. But the thing is, I don't remember them. At all.  Not one. [/quote]
Your point?[/quote]
That the annual change of guard in caregivers made zero difference to me.[/quote]
Exactly *my* point, thank you. Children normally *do* remember some things about the caregivers they had before preschool age. The fact that you remember not a thing, is astoundingly revealing.

If you should ever study child development, you'll see that after enough severed attachments (each situation and child is different,) children simply stop attaching to the parade of caregivers. Continued repetition of severed attachments teaches children to not trust in the "safety" (as in stability) of their environment. Such early childhood experiences have profound long-term consequences, even if as adults we claim to be "just fine."

By the way, "The Hell of American Daycare" has a lot to do with the typical high-turnover rate of the poorly compensated workers. If your caregivers stayed on for years at a time, consider yourself fortunate.

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