“I don’t want someone else raising my kid.”
For Early Learning Nation, Work Life Everything co-founder Haley Swenson considers the frequent refrain that paid child care providers are abdicating responsibility for raising children from their parents.
She asks, “When this person’s older kids were in school for 6 hours a day, five days a week during the school year, were their teachers “raising them,” I thought about asking? Surely, she didn’t think dads who worked full time while their spouses cared for their children were ceding responsibility for “raising the kids” to their wives? And how many hours in child care did a child need to spend per week, before they were being raised by someone else? 40 hours? 30 hours? There are 168 hours in a week. Where was the line between socializing with and being cared for by trained early educators, and being raised by them?”
She asks just what it is we are afraid of when it comes to letting educators raise our children with us.
