This is great, thank you for the link! My 16-month-old niece recently started daycare and that’s seemed like a shame to me since she was thriving on tons of one-on-one attention (being with a rotation of loving relatives from 7am to 5pm on weekdays, and parents the rest of the time). I think her parents made the switch because they want her to be socialized but I now see that that’s not a thing; maybe I can get them to pull her back out and wait until she’s older! :D
This is great, thank you for the link! My 16-month-old niece recently started daycare and that’s seemed like a shame to me since she was thriving on tons of one-on-one attention (being with a rotation of loving relatives from 7am to 5pm on weekdays, and parents the rest of the time). I think her parents made the switch because they want her to be socialized but I now see that that’s not a thing; maybe I can get them to pull her back out and wait until she’s older! :D
I think socialization may play a positive role later on in school, but for toddlers in daycare, the results are indeed very clearly negative.