Monday 11 February 2013

Is it really better this way? Day care vs. stay at home moms



I have written before on this topic, but several recent articles drive me to re-emphasize my point.

Let's take it story by story...

http://www.gp.se/nyheter/debatt/1.583949-en-familjepolitik-som-gor-barnen-psykiskt-sjuka?ref=fb

"The first generation born under the new conditions in Sweden has been at the preschool from the age of one year, and during his first six years spent most of his waking life with preschool staff."

Although they give it as a result of evolution, this article from Göteborgsposten allows for a complementarian view of men and women.  In other words, men and women are not identical and women are especially better fit to take care of children, especially in their earlier years.

In Sweden, parents are penalized for having their children at home, and while they could send their children for free for a limited amount of day care, they recieve little or no benefits at all for keeping them at home.

http://www.svd.se/opinion/ledarsidan/staten-ska-lasa-sagor-for-barnen_7904478.svd

Sweden is playing a game that Socrates wrote about for many hundreds of  years ago.  Let the state control the children, and you strengthen the state.  The state knows better than the parents, etc.

Get people to believe that this is not the state pushing to have more control, but something the parents themselves want. Socrates believed that within the second or third generation people would be brainwashed enough to hand their kids over blindly.

And now the Social Democrats want to have obligatory day care for our kids, starting at infancy.  The question is, how brainwashed are Swedes in this matter?

http://www.helagotland.se/ledare/artikel.aspx?articleid=8309420

This article says something along the lines of, it is for everyone's best to put your kids into daycare as soon as possible, because, among other things, this will help your kids become better students in the future.  Unfortunately, according to this article, the facts do not back up that statement.

Ultimately...

God gave us a beautiful gift as parents, to raise our children, teach them of the Lord, teach them how to be a better person and love them abundantly.  A day care with one teacher to a couple of students who are not her own children will have a very very hard time competing with a mother who loves and wants her children's best.

Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it
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Deuteronomy 4:9  “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s childre

Psalm 127:3  Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

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