#childcare

[animentality]

#twitter #conservatives #gop #liberals #childcare #parenting

[crutchesandspice]

At this moment, children’s hospitals are at capacity and are turning away sick children. WEAR A MASK.

#disability #ableism #childcare #covid 19 #vaccinations

[dragonflavoredcake]

I don't know how many parents are on here, but

Please, I am begging you, if you think your child might be neurodivergent, tell them.

Sit them down, ask them a few questions about symptoms of whatever condition you think they might have, and listen to what they have to say.

Mull it over. See how their answers measure up to professional diagnostic criteria and the childhood experiences of other neurodivergent people.

If you see things aligning, tell your kid what's going on and take them to see a reputable professional (if they're younger) or ask them if they want to talk to a pro about getting a diagnosis (if they're older).

Please, don't try to hide their neurodivergence from them. I went through school not understanding why I had such a hard time connecting with people. I grew up with a "not like other girls" complex because I genuinely was not like them. I grew up thinking that everyone hated certain textures, that everyone found buffet lines stressful, that my social struggles were just introversion. When I had to secure my own accommodations, I told people that I occasionally had sensory overloads. 

When my mother told me that she'd known for years that I probably had ADHD and autism, I was an adult, and I resented her for that decision. After the lightbulb moment faded, I demanded to know why she hadn't told me before, and she said that I hadn't been struggling.

But I had been struggling. I had assumed that my struggles were normal and I'd been bent on "fixing" myself in a way that couldn't and shouldn't be done.

Had I been given that vocabulary, I could've explained why I became so obsessed with my interests.

I could've given a better explanation than "I have sensory overloads sometimes" when I had to wear noise-canceling headphones in high school (and I probably wouldn't have gotten those accommodations if I hadn't had a reputation as a good student). I could've told my teachers that it was because I was autistic, instead of relying on a term that I learned from Spider-Man fanfiction.

I could've researched ways to work around my ADHD so I didn't drown under a mountain of late work.

If you hide your child's neurodivergence from them, you are refusing to give them the right tools to understand themselves.

#adhd #autism #actually autistic #the neurodivergent experience #neurodivergent #short essays #parenting #childcare #this has been a psa #blog psa

[nothorses]

I saw your tags on the post about trick or treaters not speaking and I am v interested in hearing more of your thoughts on the concept of “developmental delays”! I‘ve seen the idea that disability is a construct, but I’m not as familiar with the idea that development is also a construct. You have really great takes as an educator and someone who like, actually GETS how kids work, so I am interested in your thoughts!

I also know that posting on this subject might be poking the bear, so it is 1000% cool if you would rather not comment 💜 Tysm!

Oh I'm happy to talk about it! I love talking about this stuff, thank you for asking me to 💙

This isn't exactly new ground; there's been plenty of research into and writing on the subject, and deconstructing "development" as a static concept was, ironically, a huge part of my most recent development class.

The idea is that our understanding of "benchmarks" of development, which informs the larger concept of development as a whole, is heavily rooted in the assumption that Western culture is The Standard. We prioritize walking, talking, reading, and writing, which means we cultivate these skills in our children from a young age, which means they develop those skills more quickly than they do others.

To use one of my favorite examples from Rogoff, 2003, Orienting Concepts and Ways of Understanding the Cultural Nature of Human Development:

Although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust children below about age 5 with knives, among the Efe of the Democratic Republic of Congo, infants routinely use machetes safely (Wilkie, personal communication, 1989). Likewise, Fore (New Guinea) infants handle knives and fire safely by the time they are able to walk (Sorenson, 1979). Aka parents of Central Africa teach 8- to 10-month-old infants how to throw small spears and use small pointed digging sticks and miniature axes with sharp metal blades: "Training for autonomy begins in infancy. Infants are allowed to crawl or walk to whatever they want in camp and allowed to use knives, machetes, digging sticks, and clay pots around camp. Only if an infant begins to crawl into a fire or hits another child do parents or others interfere with the infant’s activity. It was not unusual, for instance, to see an eight month old with a six-inch knife chopping the branch frame of its family’s house. By three or four years of age children can cook themselves a meal on the fire, and by ten years of age Aka children know enough subsistence skills to live in the forest alone if need be. (Hewlett, 1991, p. 34)" (pg. 5)

In the US we would view "letting an 8-month-old handle a knife" as a sign of severe neglect, but the emphasis here is placed on the fact that these children are taught to do these things safely. They don't learn out of necessity, or stumble into knives when nobody is watching; they learn with care, support, and safety in mind, just like children here learn. It makes me wonder if Aka parents would view our children's lack of basic survival skills with the same concern and disdain as USAmerican parents would view their children's inability to read.

Do we disallow our children from handling knives because it is objectively, fundamentally unsafe for a child of that age to do so- because even teaching them is developmentally impossible- or is that just a cultural assumption?

What other cultural assumptions do we have about child development?

Which ties in neatly with various social-based models of disability, particularly learning and, of course, developmental disabilities. If your culture doesn't value the things you are good at, and you happen to struggle with the things it does value, what kinds of assumptions is it likely to make about you? How will it pathologize you? What happens to that culture if it understands those values to be arbitrary, in order to accommodate your unique existence?

#education #childcare #disability #ftr I am specifically saying that it adds an important and interesting dimension to models of disability based on the social model #because disability is a complex combination of social/cultural and legitimately limiting factors that people to this day #are still trying to define in an inclusive and effective way #(and probably will be forever because it's so tied up in social/cultural and political stuff) #I dont want to imply that disability is 100% entirely made up- but it also isn't 100% entirely 'objective physical reality' or whatever. #its complicated. ill have better thoughts when im not just like 5 weeks into my first disability studies class lmao

[mapsontheweb]

As the cost of living increases, so does the cost of raising and looking after children.

We all know that childcare can be expensive, but did you know that in 28 states it costs more than college tuition?

This is from NetCredit who analyzed the average annual fees paid for public and private college tuition and the average cost of childcare in each U.S. state: https://www.netcredit.com/blog/cost-of-child-care-by-state/

#maps #submission #us #childcare #education #costs

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My best friend and I lived in a small rural area in a small house and we ran some kind of agency together from it. One day, we got a knock on the door and someone left a baby on the doorstep with $5 million in cash and a note that said "please take care of them".

The rest of the dream was pretty much a sitcom of me and him taking care of this baby and buying baby necessities at Walmart while scrambling to take care of the child.

#dream #friend #best friend #friendship #sitcom #baby #walmart #buying #shopping #child care #childcare

[jewishevelinebaker]

Facts dont care about your feelings until facts say that hitting your children teaches them that violence is ok and facts say that children are more likely to be harmed by family members than strangers and then its personal anecdotes about why hitting is ok and teaching children about sexual abuse in schools isnt

#aud.txt #childcare #child abuse #child welfare

[queerism1969]

#abuse mention #emotional abuse #actually abused #child abuse #abuse survivor #substance abuse #children #childcare #child #mum #toddler #families #liberal feminism #radical feminism #intersectional feminism #feminism #male violence #patriarchy #beauty standards #misandry

[bootleg-nessie]

If holding children at gunpoint and forcing them to smoke an entire pack of cigarettes is a crime then lock me up

#parenting tips #parenting #children #child #childcare #r/196 #r/196archive #196 #/r/196 #rule #meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting

[mysharona1987]

#Ivf #democrats #republicans #politics #alabama #childcare

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Education workers with the Peel District School Board, including educational assistants, early childhood educators and child and youth care practitioners, have voted in favour of strike action as negotiations continue between the school board and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 2100. About 3,200 of the 4,000 employees in Local 2100 participated in the vote, with 98 per cent of them voting in favour of strike action, according to a news release issued Friday. 

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #ontario #strikes #worker's rights #education #childcare #unions #education workers

[probablyasocialecologist]

Although research shows that children are not harmed by quality center-based child care, and may even enjoy greater cognitive, linguistic, and socioemotional development than children cared for at home, American conservatives hate the idea of child care because it also challenges male authority in the family. One op-ed contributor for Fox News sees universal child care as part of an evil plot, arguing “totalitarian governments have gone to great lengths to indoctrinate children, and the biggest obstacles they faced was parents who contradicted what the government was telling their kids.” In this view, everything that state socialist countries did to support women —increasing labor force participation, liberalizing divorce laws, creating kindergartens and crèches, and supporting women’s economic independence—was aimed as brainwashing children. Even public schools served the primary purpose of indoctrination.

Kristen Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism  

#Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism #childcare #children #conservatism

[bebx]

{not my video.} this. is NOT cute. or funny. at. all.

parents, either control your kids or put them on a leash if you can’t. I’m serious. you think it’s okay to let your kid go and just hit an animal like this??? it’s not. and you know what angers me even more than seeing your child abuse an animal? that if this poor dog were to rightfully defend himself and attack, because some random brat kept hitting him, he’d get put to sleep. and if this were the case here, I wouldn’t feel sorry for the damn kid, but I’d feel sorry for this beautiful, well-behaved animal. and I’m mad because it’d happened before, again and again, where a parent failed to teach their child to behave and said child went to abuse a dog and then the dog defended himself and attacked, and the one that got put down was the dog when all he did was defend himself from some brat who. attacked. him. first.

I’m glad this isn’t the case in this specific video because it would break my heart to see another good boy (the dog) get put down because of a brat and its parents who failed to keep their goddamn child from being an animal abuser.

this. is. not. okay.

the one that should be on a leash in this case is not the dog.

I’m not even sorry if I’m being rude here. it’s not okay for you as a parent to let your child hit an animal like this and think it’s oh-so cute then if said animal were to defend themself and attack back, they would be seen as an ‘aggressive animal’ and got put down.

if I see your child do this to my dog — or any other animal — believe me I will not stand by and do nothing.

either teach your kids to be kind and respectful to animals or put them on a leash if you can’t. or, better, use a condom.

#important #dog #dogs #pitbull #pitbulls #animal #animals #childcare #children #parenting #pets #pet #rottweiler #rottweilers #pit bulls #american pit bull terrier #pit bull #the dodo #parents #animal lover #animal lovers #child care #dog attack #animal attacks #animal attack #dog attacks

[housewifediary]

Only rich women can be housewives..

even though you pay someone else to watch your children and at times cook for the family while you drive another vehicle so your spouse can also work... so who is really rich darling? I know I'm rich in love at least. ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎

#tradfem #feminine #mumblr #sahm #girl mom #traditional femininity #housewife #pink #loves #married #tradwife #trad wife #happy #rich #wealthy #well off #childcare #honestly just let women be happy #i could work and double it #I could be rich really #but I'm happy #I have all I need #just prioritize and I believe in women! #all women!

[tormentedscentedcandles]

#omam #of madness and mammals #yassen gregorovich #alex rider #childcare #parent memes #mom #womb envy

[heterorealism]

#feminism #weaponized incompetence #men ain’t shit #bad dads #gender inequality #boys will be boys #parenting #childcare #divorce him #gender socialization #gender #teachers #education