New Brunswick government gives early learning curriculum to parents and daycares. (Should the state be fixating on regulating families while deregulating business?) Read the Daily Gleaner article “Province to unveil curriculum for preschool children today” (broken link)
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A brilliant answer to those 2nd-wave feminists who oppose who hate mums who look after their own children—Atlantic Monthly article: “I Choose My Choice”
A brilliant answer to those 2nd-wave feminists who oppose who hate mums who look after their own children. July 2008. Atlantic Monthly - web article: "I Choose My Choice" See also these Kids First news updates: Second wave feminist, Erica Jong,…
Institutionalized daycare in the Spin Cycle
July 14, 2008 - Canadian Taxpayers FederationParents and governments across Canada have rejected institutionalized daycare programs. So what is the B.C. government offering now? All-day kindergarten. No matter how the government tries to spin it, all-day kindergarten is nothing more…
High Costs and Low Quality: Daycare in Quebec & Sweden
High Costs and Low Quality Quebec government study finds 73% of licensed daycare is of minimal or lower quality (Quality Counts! Assessing the Quality of Daycare Services Based on the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development PDF).The OECD find “a…
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Sweden to Fund Parental Child Care–Reverses Decades of Discrimination (broken link)
The Swedish Parents' group, Föreningen Barnens Rätt Till Föräldrarnas Tid (approximately the Association for the Right of Children to Their Parents) is a sister-organization to Kids First. It is part of the Swedish "parents' rebellion" that has collected over 50,000…
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Kids First submission to BC Early Learning Agency on all-day schooling for 3 to 5 year olds
Kids First submission to BC Early Learning Agency on all-day schooling for 3 to 5 year olds: July 5, 2008. Helen Ward. Kids Fist Parent Association of Canada - government submission: "Comments" (PDF) This document can also be found in…
Background to All-Day Kindergarten: The “Integration” Agenda to Merge Daycare and School
Analysis by Kids First of the “Blueprint Paper” for Child & Family Policy by the OECD, UNESCO and World Bank. Quotes from, links to, and Kids First commentary on the key ideological strategy document behind daycare and all-day kindergarten: STATED…
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Kids First Requests names of “stakeholders” invited to all-day schooling consultations
From: Helen Ward [mailto:info@kidsfirstcanada.org]Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 10:17 PMTo: Kennedy, Susan E EDUC:EXSubject: Re: Your question Thank you for your reply. Could you provide more details as to the membership of the ECLA? You mention "parent advocacy organizations", stakeholders,…
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Australians debate “means testing” for the $5,000 per child birth bonus promised for July 1, 2008 to increase birthrates
Australians debate “means testing” for the $5,000 per child birth bonus promised for July 1, 2008 to increase birthrates (broken link)
Press Release June 27, 2008
The BC government is conducting a secretive so-called "public" consultation on early learning—but parents are not invited. The issue is full day schooling for ages 3-5. Online consultation at: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/ecla/ (broken link) There is a July 18 deadline.Such a major…
Interview with Canadian Dr. Elliot Barker on Roots of Criminality
Interview with Canadian Dr. Elliot Barker (Natural Child - web article), child psychiatrist and founder of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He sees lack of empathetic parenting and consumerism as the roots of criminality.
The OECD and Canada's Daycare Lobby: Ties Denied (broken link)
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ranked Canada last of 14 countries in spending on early learning and child care. Its says of its generally negative review of Canada: "We trust… that our external perspective, based on many…
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Daycare Turf Wars: For-Profit Big Box vs. Non-Profit Big Box vs. State-Run Big Box
March 28, 2008Helen Ward, PresidentKids First Parent Association of Canadawww.kidsfirstcanada.org604-291-0088 The issue of funding 'private for-profit' daycare is where the daycare lobby gets internally conflicted between its left and right. The bed-mates start to fight, and as in most divorces,…
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The OECD: Globalizing Daycare Lobby Ideology
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's "finding" that Canada ranks lowest in spending on child care and early learning, and its predictable recommendations, need to be seen for what they are intended to be: propaganda tools for the domestic…
Debate on "Income Splitting" between Martha Friendly, Co-ordinator of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit and John Williamson, Head of the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation
Monday May 26, 2008. Martha Friendly. Ontario CHCH News - Partial Radio Transcript [with commentary by Helen Ward] "Live at 5:30"Martha Friendly: …Providing better child care [she means daycare centres] would actually encourage more women to have more children while…