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The whole transcript is in the article in WND.com. Almost hilarious how the judge belittles the case. He must be one of the good guys.

The whole transcript is in the article in WND.com. Almost hilarious how the judge belittles the case. He must be one of the good guys.

The whole transcript is in the article in WND.com. Almost hilarious how the judge belittles the case. He must be one of the good guys.

Thanks for the additional info. I think you’re a better example of what I was writing about. A cell phone for a 6 year old? Right.

OK. You got me.

Reasoning like yours is why we have high abortion rates, sex ed for grade schoolers, no fault divorce, skyrocketing national debt, etc. etc. Public policy and social trends are always being adjusted for the exception and not the common good. Sure, i could find an example where someone needs to have a total untrained and unqualified person watch their children while they earn a meager existence. But the common good would be better served if children were raised by their own parent9s) in a loving supportive environment. So public policy should be adjusted to encourage that. But there is an agenda that seeks to make everyone a producer and that means controlling the children. Watch for the new regulations for daycare and you’ll see what I mean.

You’re an idiot. Try rational argument sometime. maybe then someone will talk to you like an adult.

We’ve been fortunate in some ways with public school. But we “deprogram” the kids when they get home. I have a lot of respect for homeschoolers. Just never went that far. it could still be coming.

Did your going back to work when the kids were still in middle school have anything to do with them being single parents?

We were told by our parents that the teen years are when you are needed most, to greet the children off the bus and listen to their worries.

Just sayin’

A. It’s the law, though there are some ways around it.

B. They don’t feed the kids with a bottle, change their diapers, leave them on a blanket staring at the ceiling all day

C. It’s for 3 hours, 9 months.

D. Mom’s on call and available.

E. Teachers are certified and restricted to class size and student to teacher ration of about 7 to 1.

F. Nice try.

Now getting back to the original article...

And I do say in my article that there are some circumstances where daycare is unavoidable. But it should be a goal to avoid it. Sounds like you share that goal. Peace and best wishes.

I’ve heard all the psychobabble about how daycare kids are more rounded than stay at home kids. Each year when we put another kid in Kindergarten they offered programs to “catch my kids up”. And each year they were amazed how far ahead my kids were - able to read and write, draw and color within lines, kind and caring, toilet trained, happy, well adjusted.

Daycare superiority is a myth proposed by the industry and government. Nothing substitutes for a family, parents and siblings.

My next article will be about single child families. I’ll want to post that one in English and Chinese.

Children don’t care about such things as foreclosure. An apartment or smaller home is fine with them as long as they have love.

I always found the concept of daycare repugnant. My mother was a stay at home saint, sacrificing career and increased wealth for the good of her children. She was always there for us, attending to our bumps and bruises, our triumphs and failures. Dad carried the wage earning load. He did fine.

When I was young, putting children in daycare was rare. Now it’s a billion dollar industry and as commonplace as buying a new car.

So what goes on at daycare and how are today’s children faring. I took a close look and what I found was troubling.

A female co-worker provided my first glimpse of some troubling trends. After giving birth she couldn’t wait to get her son into daycare as quickly as 3 weeks after his birth. Then, when her next vacation came up, she continued to drop him off each day so she “could get more done”. The idea left me cold. Now I know someone who works at daycare and says that is very common.

She says mothers routinely drop the kids off while they take a day off and go shopping. Likewise, when Dad shows up in plaid pants, a golf shirt and cap you know where he’s headed. “If you need me call my cell, I’ll be at the...”

Equally disturbing is the lack of warmth when picking children up at the end of the day. With the days workload still churning in their minds, it doesn’t even occur to these people to ask the child how their day was or give them a hug. Nor do they inquire of the caregivers how the child did that day. They just lead them to the car and stick them in their seats with all the emotion of a delivery truck driver. That the revolving door of overstressed daycare workers means many different folks, many in training, watch the kids, seems to be of little concern.

Not all are like that. Some hire nannies to drop off and pick up the kids and watch them through the weekend as well. It’s a wonder the kids even know who their parents are. One dad was repulsed when he realized his child was sucking on another’s pacifier. The daycare workers kind of shrugged and thought “if he only knew what these kids pass around on a given day.”

Then there’s the illness deception trick. Since they know you shouldn’t drop a child off with a fever, they stuff the little kids with Tylenol so as to avoid detection for a couple of hours until mom is safely at her desk. “What? Johnny has a fever? He was fine this morning!” But the daycare providers have seen the pattern enough to know the exact amount of time Tylenol holds off a fever. They ask the older kids “what color pill did mommy give you today? Was it pink?” Mom and Dad aren’t fooling anyone. They’re just hoping the call comes late enough that they can stall their way to the end of their workday.

Career women aren’t quite as nurturing as they think sometimes. Nor as bright. One Ivy League professor type stopped to instruct a daycare worker how she wanted the child’s clothes changed midway through the day so that the first half day’s clothes could be preserved in case the child ever turned up missing or lost. The woman provided a plastic bag to deposit the clothing in. This isn’t something that couldn’t be handled at home? You don’t routinely have such clothing articles around? What, do you do laundry every night?

Some stories are sadder. Like the premature boy who was sent off to daycare with an oxygen mask only 7 months after being born months premature. “It’s OK to remove the mask when you change him,” mother explained. But when the 20-something daycare worker tried that the boy began to turn blue. So they decided to leave it on. This is a daycare center, not a medical facility. What kind of parents drop a child off in that shape for the day at a totally unqualified facility?

Then there are the kids who show up with other suspicious conditions or injuries. It should be no surprise that some percentage of these kids aren’t loved and suffer neglect.

There are truly hardship cases where professional daycare is needed. But in most cases daycare is the option for the upwardly mobile, those who value things and places over children. Could you do without a few things in order to spend time nurturing your own child? If you didn’t want children, why’d you get married and have them?

My wife left her job when we had our first child and has been home for the birth and rearing of all 7. Has it been hard at times? Do we sacrifice some things? Sure. But isn’t that what marriage and family are supposed to be about in the first place?

What kind of rude, self-centered drones are we thrusting on the world? Ones whose first memories are that their parents didn’t love them enough to spend time raising them.

My mom passed away less than a year ago. her birthday was yesterday. Happy Birthday mom.

Prophetic, wasn’t it? A whole generation now.

I do whatever is needed.

And most people don’t NEED daycare. They need to support a standard of living that’s above 99% of the world. They’ve bought the big lie about all the things they have to have. The government wants you to produce. And they’ll raise your children for you. Watch all the new regulations for daycare/preschool. They’ll slowly take over child rearing.

Don’t care about hit. And not tarring anyone. If the truth hurts, its not my fault. I give real examples and sadly, common ones.

If they find your last nerve, what do you think they’re doing to the daycare provider?