High quality daycare have planned program of activities and temporal routine, there are means of proper training that introduce discipline into young children’s often unruly lives. The daycare leaves little doubt that young children require such discipline to absorb the complicated rules of social living. Children are reportedly prone to uncontrolled aggressiveness, natural curiosity about sex, the craving and competition for the teachers’ affection, tantrums, excessive shyness, the important principle of “social sharing” might be quite incomprehensible to infants until two years of age. Given such a discursive production of the normal child, it is not surprising that “all nursery school experts believe that three and four year olds need control.
However, daycare has some negative aspects and these are: Out of home childcare is not as convenient like in-home childcare especially during cold winter mornings. Secondly, a child is more likely to pick up pink eye, colds and other illnesses if he/she is around a large number of children. Since most daycares have policies that need sick children to stay at home, a mother still have to make alternative childcare arrangements whenever the child is sick. Finally, it is very difficult to find the appropriate daycare, there is no assurance that where will be an available daycare when you need it.
High-quality daycare is apparently a necessary technology for making the useful individuals that American society will need in the future, because its defining methods and means of training and discipline resemble those of the modern barracks, factory, school, hospital, and prison. In an important sense, it is merely another application of a tried-and-true technology for making useful individuals. It merely starts that process earlier in life, producing a normal child who is prepared to be fashioned into a serious student, dedicated soldier, conscientious worker, cooperative patient, and contrite prisoner -a “useful individual.” It is hardly surprising, then, that such scientific means of correct training would become an unquestioned fact of modern American life — a life lived within a great network of disciplinary mechanisms. That is the fate of the normal child and useful individual of the twentieth and, perhaps, the twenty-first century. As the popular daycare discourse examined here seems to conclude, it only makes sense that the young should learn to accept this fate at the earliest possible age.
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