New Child Care Regulations Ease Parent Responsibility
Massachusetts has passed new legislation for child care workers that will go into effect in January, 2010. The new requirements will have daycare workers assisting children with brushing their teeth after meals or if the child has been at the center for at least 4 hours. Child care workers will also have to complete reports on each child’s development in a number of areas and nannies will have to develop curriculum that demonstrate how the activities they do with children each day are preparing them for school.
Reactions to the new legislation range from Grover Norquist: “pathologically goofy” to Sherri Killins: “I don’t think there’s anything frivolous or overburdening in the new regulations.”
Are these new regulations needed? After discussing the concept of the “drop off generation”, it may become clear why the government has seen need to step in and regulate how children are being taken care of in a daycare setting. Parents are stepping back and taking less and less of an active role in their children’s lives, making it necessary in some people’s opinions, to have child care workers step up and fill that void.
Will other states step forward and follow Massachusetts’ lead? Hopefully they will not have to. Parents need to view this as a wake-up call instead of a positive change in child care. While it is important that teachers are appropriately and effectively teaching children in the classroom, should parents really trust the upbringing of their young babies and toddlers to childcare workers? Parents need to take more responsibility for their children than to simply provide clothes, shelter and the evening meal.
Read more about these new child care regulations.
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