June 19, 2020 - CBC radio The Sunday Edition - interview with a top daycare lobbyist - "National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery", says Martha Friendly: We don't know what the fall out will be…
Category: Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural
Washing their Hands of Responsibility—Keeping Daycare Centres Clean: The Impossible Dream?
Can mere mortals maintain even the draconian hand-washing regime required of daycare staff (and babies and children) to prevent spread of disease WHILE ALSO providing sensitive responsive care to a group of up to 25+ children? Try this at Home…
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Inadequate Daycare Quality (broken link)
2008 Canadian Paediatric Society position statement - Health implications of children in child care centres Part A: Canadian trends in child care, behaviour and developmental outcomes (broken link) The report states a 1998 questionnaire study of 325 Canadian daycare centres…
Daycares Spread Contagion: Close Them
March 20, 2020: Two days ago Kids First sent an open letter to the prime minister and all premiers calling for closure of all daycare settings. Then yesterday BC and Saskatchewan daycare advocacy organizations and the Saskatchewan NDP called for…
Open Letter to the PM and Premiers: Close Daycares Now to Reduce Contagion
March 18, 2020. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - Media Release: OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND PREMIERS: CLOSE DAYCARES NOW TO REDUCE CONTAGION (Download media release PDF here)
earlier kindergarten associated with 30% higher ADHD diagnosis
Harvard study shows earlier kindergarten associated with 30% higher ADHD diagnosis. November 28, 2018. Jake Miller. Harvard Gazette article: When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD
What is daycare and all day kindergarten really like?
June 2019: What is daycare and all day kindergarten really like for children and staff? Listening to an Early Childhood Educator's Eye Witness Account of All-day Kindergarten Pilot Project: June 2019. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada -…
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Negative Health Effects Of Daycare (broken link)
2009/16 Canadian Paediatric Society position statement - Health implications of children in child care centres Part B: Injuries and infections (broken link) "for every 9 h of daycare per week, there was a 12% increase in respiratory illness days. Children…
Delaying Kindergarten Reduces Hyperactivity
Oct 5, 2015 National Bureau of Economic Research paper: , “The Gift of Time? School Starting Age and Mental Health,” October 7, 2015 Stanford University article: A new study finds delaying kindergarten 1 year reduces hyperactivity and improves attention at…
Quebec Daycare System Results: Negative Social Behaviour, Increased Youth Crime
Sept 2015 working academic research paper by economists Milligan, Baker, Gruber showing long term negative impact of Quebec daycare system: "Non-Cognitive Deficits and Young Adult Outcomes: The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program" September 23, 2015 Maclean's Magazine…
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Universal Child Care Outcomes Questioned In New Study.
Sept 21, 2015: Universal Child Care Outcomes Questioned In New Study. This study is a follow up from a previous study by the same 3 economists that was published in a top peer-reviewed journal, Political Economy, and won the 2008…
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Research on Children in Orphanages Shows Vital Role of Parental Attachment and Other Impacts of Neglect
February 2014 . Jon Hamilton. science news article and video - US National Public Radio: "Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape A Child's Brain" Kids First reference copy here (PDF) "parenting... is a bit like oxygen. It's easy to take…
News: Waterloo Record on how full-day kindergarten makes things worse for kids.
Oct 2013 Waterloo Record article by Maclean's editor: How full-day kindergarten makes things worse for kids. This article exposes the lies told by the Ontario government about their studies of all-day kindergarten PDF: How full-day kindergarten makes things worse for…
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Sept 2013: Hamilton Spectator article – Kids First quoted
Sept 2013 Hamilton Spectator article - Kids First quoted "Full-Day kindergarten is merely glorified babysitting" Kids First Parent Association of Canada is not impressed with the move toward all-day kindergarten. "There is not one peer-reviewed empirical study of long-term outcomes…
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Sept 2013: The Telegraph newspaper – UK coalition says The Government should stop intervening in early education
Sept 2013: The Telegraph newspaper - UK coalition says The Government should stop intervening in early education. Letter signed by many experts says evidence supports more play and later formal schooling