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Because they have to work from 9-5 and that does not go hand in hand with watching your children from 9-5. Also child in solitude vs children playing and learning with others etc. etc.
Not all can afford that or have relatives/friends to divert to. The solution seems clear, but it's not easy at all.
I have my doubts about the article, but it's mind blowing how people don't understand that anecdotes are exactly that, anecdotes.
Right, but even then I find it hard to believe unless the hired babysitter is doing nothing. Or unless the parents are leaving the kids alone by themselves for 8 hours a day.
That's terrible to hear.
I see that makes sense. It becomes more difficult to retain those skills when the kid is still learning to put them to habit. It works as a shift to their learning environment and that makes it easier to forget the potty training and hand dexterity when their schedule is now different. Is that correct? We learn more easily through repetition and consistency and covid has messed with that.
Part of me wonders if it's where kids have missed out on some of the peer-to-peer learning where they encourage each other to try new things, to be more independent, to copy each other doing things on their own and being praised for it. My five-year-old has come on in leaps and bounds in terms of independence and trying new things since being at school.
Damn...I have a world of new considerations to think about with regards to having a kid of our own.
Consistency and routine is a huge part of it for young children. Even the smallest loss of structure is going to have an effect on some children, as while parents try their best, there will also be a difference in the loss of time spent learning from other kids too. Generally the more points of influence they have the better, I think, and I wouldn't be surprised if losing access to adults other than their parents (e.g. teachers, grandparents, nursery staff etc), and their peers, is going to slow them down a bit or regress in some cases. Where parents are stressed and exhausted too doesn't help.
In my area in Canada, we had to start looking for day cares while my wife was pregnant. For a day care that will take him at like 1 or 1.5 years old. That's how long the waiting list is.
Because it's through school they were learning these things. Some kids come into the school system were their parents haven't taught them these things, and even though it's not a teachers job to teach them it, they will do because the kid needs to learn them regardless (potty training is a kind of separate issue as a teacher is really not meant to be left alone with a child in the bathroom and the parent really does have to do it). This happened before the pandemic - source: my mother was a nursery teacher and has dealt with this issue a longtime. This is exasperated by pandemic as kids are no longer in school, so there's no one keeping them up with the skills they learnt. For example there was already a massive difference (which affects a child long term and keeps snowballing) between a child who gets read to at school and a child who also gets read to be their parents in ability. The pandemic is expanding that difference. The big issue is they are never going to decrease that difference as even if you teach the child this skills again the other children that don't need taught them will be ahead and learning more and new skills so the difference just continues onward exponentially. That's why there's a lot of professionals that have wanted to keep the schools open during the pandemic as the loss of learning of some children is never really going to come back when compared to their compatriots.
