I do agree that modern parents are unprepared for group care. But in their defense, it is VERY common for parents these days to have no experience with children before having a child and most families have only one or two kids. The very nature of their home life is in exact opposition to group care. They have no perspective to base off of to gain an understanding of group care for babies to preschool age. WE providers are the ones that have to teach them that before the little ones go to school. I have had so many first time parents and one child homes since beginning daycare so I am not at all surprised by the confusion from parents when their child is not the prince/princess of the daycare. That is why I enjoy working for teachers. They understand the dynamics of group care.

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