nyc daycare?

Question

Can anyone recommend any good daycare / early learning places for my 6 month old in NYC, preferably below 34th Street? There's one across the street from my office at 17 East 16th Street, see a lot of kiddies going in and out of there.

Answer 1

Did you know that babies learn best in the context of a one on one relationship with mommy? Drs. Brazelton and Greenspan detail this in their book - the irreducible needs of children.

For children to enter care in their first three years of life is so damaging to their intellect - because they are not with mommy, not in her arms (infant brain cells only form connections when infants are being held!) and because they are so stressed by the separation - cortisol, the stress hormone that floods the brain of an infant crying for mommy, causes depression and anxiety, impairs learning, and causes stress disorders in adulthood for the infant who suffered so.

NICHD studies have found that kids who enter day care before 5 have school problems that persist for 12 years after stopping day care.

Humans are primates. Have you ever observed primates at the zoo or elsewhere? They never put their infants down. That's how ours evolved, that's what they need. Mommy's milk, mommy's arms, mommy's time and devotion.

No early learning center can deliver the goods for an infant/toddler - it's a lie parents tell themselves to assauge the guilt at the egregious behavior of abandoning their children to be raised by hired help - because infants and toddlers need mommy to learn best.

Answer 2

Try the two options below. They both have thier own strengths. You should be able to find out what you need though.