Pushy, or Leaders?

[arianna]

MM! Just a thought ! Daycare causes aggression ?

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/daycare010419.html

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[Lynda/WA]

I would like to know more about how the study was conducted. Based on my own experiences the kids that went to the daycare center were (in general) much more aggressive. You could easily see which kids were future bullies. On the other hand every home daycare my kids were in was great. I wonder if the home daycare kids were included in this study? I'd like to see a break down. Centers vs home daycares. Children with the same provider daily and those with multiple providers or centers with high employee turnover rates. My suspicion would be that daycare center kids are even more aggressive than the study suggests but because the home daycare kids are included the numbers are diluted. No proof of that suspicion, just personal experiences.

Here's an example. When my son was in a center he was bitten multiple times by one of the other kids. As she worked for the center little was done. I'm talking about bite marks that broke the skin. I pulled my son out of there (for many reasons) and put him in a home daycare. Eventually the other little boy was removed from the center for attacking other children (including other worker's children). He went to the same home daycare as my son. I was worried my son would again be attacked. both boys were about 1 yr old. In all that time they were together the two boys never had a problem in the home daycare. Later the other boys mother quit working at the center and opened a home daycare. Since it was such a small community, other parents were aware her son had had problems in the center with aggression and were hesitant to take there children there. I was told by another parent she decided to try it because my son had had problems with him in the center but not in the home daycare. They felt it was the enviroment that made things worse and gave her home daycare a try. I never heard of any problems when she had her son in her own home daycare setting just as he had no problems in the other home daycare. Only at the center. We swapped short nightime babysitting with each other. The boy never acted aggressive in that setting either.

BTW, my DS has been in a center, homeday care and at home with me. My DD has been in homedaycares and home with me. I'm all for good home daycares.

I'd also like to know if this aggression remains. I heard of a study today that says first grade teachers spend much more time on classroom management then on teaching. I haven't actually read the report (LA Times) but supposedly teacher education level and classroom size isn't a factor. I can't help but wonder if the two studies have a correlation.