THE ISSUE IS QUALITY CHILD CARE - One of the major issues that Crystal Stairs works diligently to promote is child care quality. So often we see that the average person, the general public, does not know what quality child care means. Most people use babysitting and child care provider interchangeably.
Crystal Stairs offers a number of workshops that teach child care providers about quality and how to provide quality care. We share resources and research, we connect experts to our communities, and we try to inform and empower parents and providers to understand how early childhood education, quality child care, and child development can play a major significant role in their lives and in the lives of the children they take care of, they love and they nurture.
So, in light of this, it seems odd, curious, unfortunate, possibly disastrous, and probably like a setback to learn that NBC will be airing a new reality show entitle Baby Borrowers. Or it may be hilariously entertaining and also enlightening.
Zero to Three, a national organization dedicated to issues and policies that pertain to children aged 0-3 wrote a great summary on the reality show. Click here to read it.
The premise is that teenagers will be given a child to take care of as part of an "intriguing new social experiment that asks five diverse teenage couples to fast-track to adulthood by setting up a home, getting a job and becoming caring parents." Zero to Three was concerned enough to write letters to NBC asking them to rethink the premise in hopes of focusing some component of the show on early childhood development issues.
Some say having teenagers go through this kind of experiment will help them rethink unprotected sex or sex at an early age. Some say this kind of experiment sacrifices thoughtful and critical conversations about early childhood development issues for the sake of entertainment value.
It's not TV, It's birth control. Well, what do you think?
Crystal Stairs is a private non-profit child development corporation. Our mission is: Improving the lives of families through child care services, research and advocacy since 1980. Visit on the web at www.crystalstairs.org
