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In reply to the discussion: Relatively free daycare. [View all]

patrice

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2. There are some reformers around long-term care who would like to see daycare in those
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 04:04 PM
Jan 2012

work environments, which are also becoming more home-like, because it makes every kind of sense there is:

- CNA/CMAs need this and would be able to give better care with this worry off of their minds;
- other mothers could benefit from this resource;
- home-like environments are good, more healthy, for elders and part of that could be available to children too;
- some elders enjoy and benefit health-wise from being around children;
- child-care and child-care workers could become more professional.

This is a care model that has been in use for centuries, just got kind of broken by our culture, but has continued amongst folk such as the Mennonites and others.

One reform group is known as The Greenhouse Project http://www.ncbcapitalimpact.org/default.aspx?id=146 - it grew out of the work of Dr. Bill Thomas and there are other reform efforts out there, some incorporating child-care and others not.

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