Why You Should Not Put Your Child in Daycare

Many women and men are forced to put their children in daycare due to the necessary fact that both parents must work to support the family. If corners can somehow be cut or unnecessary bills eliminated during this important stage of your child's life, I strongly support having one parent stay at home with their young ones.

There are many reasons why this is so, some proven by research and others proven by the backlash felt years after some of these kids grew up. Some I have seen and learned through personal experience as a teacher. Here are just a few to consider before enrolling your child in a daycare preschool environment.

1. Research proves many children reared in daycare become more defiant when older. Although negative behaviors will certainly occur during the age while your child is enrolled, this is usually typical of a growing child. What child doesn't question or defy authority at some point? The issue arises when research has proven that many daycare reared children grew up to become much more defiant in their 5th and 6th grade years of school. The study compared all of the children reported by teachers as having negative qualities such as bragging, lying, cheating, destruction of property, cruelty and an overall sense of disobedience for authority and their peers. Unsure of why this occurs, one can speculate. In today's times it is very difficult and sometimes against school policy to properly discipline a child immediately after the behavior has occurred. Waiting to be reprimanded by their parents when they get home just doesn't do the trick, and these negative behaviors are reinforced.