I’M STILL fuming.
Did you see that recent—and big—American study of kids in day
care? When they arrived in kindergarten, said the news reports, 6 per cent of
kids who had stayed home with Mom were rated as “aggressive”. But 17 per cent of
children who had spent 30 hours or more a week with someone other than Mom were
“aggressive”.
Better cognitive and language skills, mind you. But aggressive.
The usual pundits crowed that this proves Mom must quit her selfish job and
stay home with the kids. Day care makes kids smart but nasty. Science says…
