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>Where did I say this should be mandatory

Nowhere, just like where I suggested you said it should be.

>was the best and only option?

You said it was an advantage of daycare. My point is that there are better ways to get that advantage.

>I've found group daycare staff are often more qualified than individual nannies.

Minimum wage vs minimum wage.

>The situations I've seen caught did not "rely on the judgment and interest of minimum wage daycare workers" but were done through communication.

If you're relying on daycare workers to communicate to you that there is a potential issue, you are relying on them to be interested enough to make the observation.

>One thing I've seen come up a lot is older generations either don't know, or dismiss, "back to sleep" as a way to minimize SIDS.

And you're going to take the lady at daycare who has a high school diploma's word for it?

>I constantly have to give milestones for my kid; birth weight, when they rolled over, crawled, walked, first word, first sentence. As years pass I have a rougher idea about what's normal and completely forgot about more minor milestones like; parallel play, object permanence, when pronouns should be understood, etc. even when I'm close to other families kids hitting those milestones.

Some parents will be less likely to notice missed milestones than minimum wage daycare workers, I guess. Most children won't miss the milestones, but they will miss the time with their parents, whether they realize it or not.



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