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@vijay330pr You can and should call your legislator! It doesn’t help the immediate your kid problem but things like lower ratio care requirements can require less political capital to pass than (for example) universal childcare or paid parental leave so it could be something they’d go to bat for.

@loreina11 California is 1:3 for infant rooms, 1:4 for mixed age. It jumps to 1:8 at age 2-5 though.

@hulahooper There’s a fantastic research backed guide on choosing a daycare by a redditor (here, free pdf). Daycare quality in the US blows my mind a bit - only 10% of daycares meet the measures to be considered high quality, but 80% of parents believe their kid attends a high quality daycare...

@joshuaray You're right, there's no safe amount of lead and ideally you'd minimize any exposure kiddo has to inhalation or ingestion of lead. The blood level threshold is effectively the threshold that triggers further testing, pediatric conversations, or maybe health department visits to...

@jwd My real opinion is you make it a part of the public school system and fund it the same way, daycare workers unionize (not sure if they already are in Canada, they certainly aren’t here), you keep paying more until you find market equilibrium to attract and retain high quality talent and you...

@jwd In California, all infant rooms are required to be 1:3. They can be 1:4 if mixed age. IMO, while some of this is an individual parent problem, a lot of this should be a “call your legislator and demand better” kinda thing.

@peaceron It’s really not that simple. Full time daycare is not optimal for later behavioral outcomes for middle and high income kids with alternative quality childcare options. Objectively, full time daycare is the optimal solution for later life behavioral and academic outcomes in certain...

@religiondoctor I’m so sorry - this is so hard. It’s totally normal for kiddo to struggle adjusting even though it’s heartbreaking as a parent. I would suggest a few things: * consecutive days will probably help, as you call out. * social stories and acting out the day with her dolls together...

@jwd I think yes - it’s useful to know what to look for even if you can’t always provide it. Like - it’s useful for me to know that cooking whole healthy foods from scratch is optimal for nutrition even though I work and my kids get dinner out of a bag at least 1 out of 3 nights. Am I going to...

@peaceron A number of studies that find positive impacts of preschool (particularly in mixed income groups) are looking at the Boston model. That was 30 hours per week, so part time. In general, research supports the value of part time preschool around age 3, but a lot of it looks at 9-3ish, and...

@gavenv You may want to share this American Academy of Pediatrics position paper on corporal punishment (spoiler: don't). The consequences associated with parental corporal punishment are summarized as follows: corporal punishment of children younger than 18 months of age increases the...

@lionheartiv While I understand your macro point about risk, I think you’re misreading that study. Yes, they saw definite differences between children born between March and December of 2020 and children born afterward. However, it does not then follow that the cause of that was masking or...

@son_of_belial You might enjoy reading some of Ellyn Slatter's work, particularly division of responsibility.

@lemar349 I hear your point about not living in anxiety, and I think it's very true. At the same time, though, it seems like COVID falls victim to all or nothing thinking. Either you're wearing a respirator mask when you make your single weekly grocery trip that is the only outside contact your...

@anonymous9090 You might appreciate this review which was linked in the thread you posted. It was published in Nature at the close of 2022. The metanalysis included studies that covered about 80K patients. They found: “The prevalence of long-COVID was 25.24%, and the most prevalent clinical...

@bucj No idea! 100 years ago, I’d imagine kids were more likely to get sick/die due to things like poor sanitation. We know illnesses quickly swept through densely populated cities but the forced distance based on agricultural livelihoods likely meant kids living more rurally weren’t getting as...

@7thunders While I think there is a ton to unpack here (and I applaud your research and stance) I think it’s also important to clarify that it was normal prepandemic for toddlers to contract 12 colds per year, let alone other illnesses like stomach bugs, strep, etc. While I do see the links...

@the_precious_one This is really fascinating - while I agree it wouldn't sell well, that is absolutely the sleep program I'd probably want to do!

@paulinderjeetkhokher Thanks! The reason I thought of it as sleep training (and again the website is down so it's entirely possible its framed differently in how they describe the approach) is that Douglas calls out a few times that there is a behaviorist sleep paradigm, there is an evolutionary...

@iaian There are a number of citations to take a look at here. Here’s a small study on eighty infants that does suggest that progressive delays in response leads to greater self soothing at 12 months. There is some data but not super high quality that modifying responses to night waking at age...