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Child care linked to later behavioral issues
The more time that children spent in child care, the more likely their sixth-grade teachers were to report problem behavior.
Also, children who got good quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabulary scores in the fifth grade than did youngsters who received lower quality care.
And this is news?
Yup, sure is.
Posted by: Joshua on April 6, 2007 12:55 PMYup, sure is.
Posted by: Joshua on April 6, 2007 12:56 PMThe study appears in the current issue of Child Development. The authors emphasized that the children's behavior was within a normal range and that it would be impossible to go into a classroom, and with no additional information, pick out those who had been in child care.
That's an interesting line. While I'm a big fan of actual science, if one couldn't pick out the children, is it possible that there's a bias in the study?
Posted by: ron on April 6, 2007 04:09 PM