I don't agree with this automatic assumption that daycare is detrimental, it can be very beneficial particularly for the social aspect.

I don't think it's saying that daycare is detrimental, just that it's not strictly Attachment Parenting to use daycare. In the same way as it's not strictly Gentle Discipline to use time-outs, but many of us do, and still consider ourselves to be using GD.

I personally fail to see the benefit of the "social aspect" of daycare over DD being with me doing our normal stuff. It kind of assumes that the primary carer and people one encounters in normal life don't "count" as people. It's not that i think it's detrimental, i just see it as benign - neither better or worse.

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