Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/child-care-as-shared-socialization/5014658/
Who cares for America's children? What does it mean to care for children? Care has several definitions that include protection, custody (left in a friend's care), and to watch over or attend to - a responsibility. Child care certainly contains all of these elements, children are protected, attended to, and their needs are met when they are in the custody of their caregiver. There is more to caring for children, however. These definitions do not reflect the amount of interaction, teaching, and learning that are part of a child care day. Child care is in fact a system of shared socialization of children and a serious examination of this system has implications for parents, caregivers, center directors, and society at large.Development of Hope and Will
Through the responses that they receive from their earliest caregivers, infants develop the attribute of hope, according to Erik Erikson. It is hope that develops from the exchange between the dyad of trust versus mistrust. In the same vein, the attribute that develops from the dyad of autonomy versus shame and doubt is will, that blend of curiosity and desire.
These attributes of hope and will are a necessary part of early childhood and important foundations to ...