Toddlers with Grandmothers

As a grandparent, I am not happy to share this finding Zvia Dover sent to us from Harvard's Daily Stat on August 17, 2012:

"For every year that a young child spends being cared for by a grandmother or other relative while the mother works, his or her test scores at age 3 to 6 drop by 2.6%, say Raquel Bernal of the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and Michael P. Keane of the University of New South Wales. Formal, center-based child care has no such adverse effect on cognitive achievement, according to the study of more than 1,000 U.S. single mothers and their children. Prior research suggests that grandparents are often stressed by child care and may not provide adequate educational activity."  

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