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Article: Expert on babies cautions about child care. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 28, 1994
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MOORHEAD, MINN. _ Eight, 10 hours of child care a day is too much _ for the child, the provider, the parents.
Magda Gerber, internationally known expert on babies, talked to about 100 child-care providers from around North Dakota at a conference last week. She bemoaned babies having to adapt to an adult world, where their schedules and care-givers are changed about as often as their diapers.
Babies need stability and security. Because of the frustration of caring for people who can't talk, the turnover rate is notoriously high among care givers of infants.
``When I came to this country in 1958, there was no such thing as surrogate care. Some hired nannies, but ...