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Good parents still make the difference
When children get sent to day care, they don't lose the language-development benefits of interacting with attentive parents at home.
References:
Booth, C.L. 1999. Studying the contexts of early experience in the 1990s. Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. January. Anaheim, Calif.
Clarke-Stewart, A. 1999. How child care relates to social, cognitive, and language development. Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. January. Anaheim, Calif.
Sources:
Cathryn L. Booth
University of Washington
Family and Child Nursing
106 South Building
CHDD Box 357920
Seattle, WA 98195
Alison Clarke-Stewart
University of California, Irvine
3340 Social Ecology II
Irvine, CA 22697-7085
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 6, February 6, 1999, p. 91. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
