Babysitters for parents

CLARE Masters, (CP, 09/05). You state that children in childcare centres aren’t getting the education that they need because the system for educating preschoolers is unwieldy and mammoth.

You also state that the first five years of life are absolutely vital to all facets of development. You’re saying that some schools want parents to bring nappies and food, that parents are not reading to or trying to educate their youngsters and that distance learning is not as good as face-to-face teaching. Childcare centres are just that, babysitters for parents, who have kids and then toss them to someone else to raise and educate them when they should be home with a parent until at least five years of age. The years when they used to learn the basics of life by playing, watching and listening to parents and siblings.

Finland’s compulsory starting age is seven and they have one of the highest education standards — where Australia is going backwards at rocket speed.

Most kids on stations have started school with a two-way radio and written mail as their only contact with teachers and they have become well educated people in all areas of work.

Parents toss their kids into childcare, a lot of times when they are still babies, because both parents have to work, then complain about how most of one wage goes to keep child/children in care, even though the taxpayer covers a lot of it.

If that is the case, why doesn’t the one that earns the least money stay home and raise their children in a happy family atmosphere similar to what has happened for generations?

Kids raised that way are way ahead of today’s generations in nearly every way, from stress to being comfortable in themselves.

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