Many people hope to take care of young children themselves, but the real economic pressure and career development often make it difficult for parents to make such a choice. Starting from July this year, parents who apply for childcare will be able to receive an additional 20% of their labor insurance insurance salary. Whether it is affordable or whether it can be given up, child care itself is a precious gift and investment that affects the child's life.
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Text: Huang Dunqing
Make parents more secure in parenting. It is an important goal of governments around the world in education and family policies and even saving birth rates. Governments and enterprises have also frequently increased their investments, giving or increasing benefits such as childcare allowances, subsidies, paid maternity leave or childcare leave for people and employees.
It is indeed important to relieve parents' financial pressure. However, American psychiatric therapist Ruth Bettelheim compiled a study and proposed more inspiration for parents. For example, one parent can take care of the baby personally, which can help the child's mental health, behavior and academic development, which is a precious gift for children.
Government expenditures, as well as fathers or mothers, may have lost income and workplaces, but these costs are actually converted into long-term investments in children and the country.
U.S. President Biden also calls on companies to provide paid maternity and childbirth leave for parents, hoping that workers can have 12 weeks of paid leave to raise babies and take care of their families; up to $4,000 per month, while low-paying workers can receive nearly 80% of their salary.
Bethei, who has more than 20 years of experience in education and psychology, education and counseling, affirmed this change, but has also compiled more than ten studies of psychology, education and child development scholars, calling on the government to be more generous to parents and children, so that parents can have longer, more complete, and at least one year of paid infant care leave.
Because babies need full-time parents to take care of them, parents also need time, experience, creativity and concentration to give enough physical contact, response and care needed for infants and young children to develop.
Intensive parent-child interaction helps positive behavior and academic performance in the future
She pointed out that primate , especially humans, body temperature, heartbeat, hormone secretion, and brain development in infancy all rely heavily on their interaction with their main caregivers and physiological synchronization.
If you lack sufficient attention and positive education and care before the age of 1, it will have a long-term impact on their psychological and physical development, such as reducing emotional normative strength, psychological quality intensity, empathy, stress management, and the ability to establish positive emotional connections with others, it may also lead to impulsive, behavioral problems, loneliness and pessimistic personality.
This may also make their brains involuntarily expect bad things to happen, focusing on negative feelings in life experience. These traits are closely related to their future behavioral performance, academic performance, and even life development in school.
Bethai cited Nathan Fox, a professor of child development at the University of Maryland, in a Romanian kindergarten as an example. When Professor Fox entered this kindergarten, he was very surprised that all the babies were lying obediently on the bed, very quiet. Because these children have been trained and learned, it is useless to cry, and no one will come to see them and respond to their needs.
Fox works with other professors to assist half of the children in relocating to adoptive families with better attention. They track the developmental differences in children who stay in kindergartens and adopted ones. Children who have been left in kindergartens and are constantly ignored in MRIs show that their brains are relatively small at the age of 8, with a large number of neurons gathering, deep processing of information and white matter in different brain areas, and their brain development is significantly backward. Their socially related abilities are also relatively slow.Because they lack attention and stimulation for a long time.
provides paid childbirth leave, which actually affects the entire society,
. What is even more surprising is that the American Psychology Association pointed out that even in the United States, the problem of infants and young children lacking enough attention and being ignored is very serious.
Perhaps some parents can be lucky enough to find trusted nanny or baby care institutions to help take good care of their children. But it is not to be denied that perfect nanny and baby care institutions are often hard to come by, making many parents sincerely hope to take care of infants and young children in person and give them more complete attention and care.
This article also reminds parents who cannot keep their babies due to practical factors or other considerations, don’t forget to give their children as much focus as possible during their children’s infancy, especially before the age of 1, and give them more love and attention. also calls on enterprises and governments to give their parents more support and flexibility.
Bitehai's article was originally published in the New York Daily News, and was subsequently reproduced by other media. In the United States, where there is no legal paid maternity leave or paid childbirth leave, it advocates that the government and enterprises should allow willing parents to go home with peace of mind at least financially to accompany their children's growth.
Because this is not only about the development of individual families and children, but also affects the entire society. After all, if too many children develop at the beginning of their lives, they will not go smoothly or have problems. In the future, the cost of investing in the biased behavior and catching up with learning may be higher, and it may not be enough or too late to spend more money.
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