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Show Wednesday, January 19, 1977 Page 5 A3 1 VC?KZ Wade itf Child Care Last week we discussed two facilities in Park City for child care. The notion of day care, preschool, pre-school, and mother surrogates has been analyzed, criticized, rejected and accepted from almost every angle. Tradition and emotion tend to support the role of mothers remaining at home during a child's formative years. Present day reality forces many mothers into the job market out of necessity rather than choice. Some mothers have opted to juggle career and childrearing and may experience a sense of guilt. The "radicals" propose freedom for women and suggest that no mother or family is equipped to provide the experiences children have in an optimal day care setting. Regardless of one's stance on the issue of child care, there are some advantages to both child and mother. Susan Edmiston cites the following benefits in her article "The Psychology of Day Care:" 1. Richer environment-The child has more space, more equipment to play with, more material to learn from, and more activities. 2. Other children-There is an opportunity to interact with children of various ages and to learn from each other. This facilitates learning cooperation, depending on others, and beginning to feel responsible for one another. 3. Relief from and for parents-Day care decreases the isolation of the nuclear family and helps a child trust and relate to other adults. It allows for "mother development" in terms of time to pursue individual interests. It helps relieve some of the weight for child rearing from the mother. A "time out" for mother and child may result in more qualitative interaction when they are home. If a child spends most of his week with a sitter or in a day care setting, parents need to arrange a meaningful period of time with the child every day. If both parents work, schedules may be arranged for one to be with the child in the morning, the other in the late afternoon, and day care utilized when schedules overlap. This provides their child with modeling from both parents and an opportunity to see greater equality between parents. It lets both parents share in the highs and lows of child rearing. Day care may seem "too expensive-a luxury" but when the advantages to both child and mother are assessed the emotional cost of not utilizing these resources on even an occasional basis is high. The two facilities in Park City are actually below the national average cost for day care. A common problem in Park City and most cities is a lack of resources for children from infancy in-fancy to 3 years of age. Regulations for licensure are stringent and formidable and the cost of designing adequate facilities for infants decrease available services. One alternative is to form a co-op with mothers having children under un-der three years of age. Some facilities in Salt Lake City will take infants. For mothers working in Salt Lake City andor taking classes this might be an alternative. There is a list of day care programs in the Salt Lake City phone book. The Division of Family Services usually has an updated list of licensed sitters and schools. The Women's Resource Center Cen-ter at the University of Utah and the YWCA may also have listings and information on available day care. There are some publications that address ad-dress the issue of day care : The Day Care Book Day Car for Infants Who's Minding the Children-The History and Politico of Day Care in America. MICHAEL'S SKI REPAIR PROFESSIONAL TUNING & MOUNTING "Overnight service, or while you eat out" Open Daily 8-1 0 a.m. and 4-8 p.m. Call 649-8503 At the KNDERSPORT (Bottom of Main) Old Fashion Necktie. Party i IM fin ""J " f' 'l Jerry Springer, history researcher and author from Heber, Utah is showi above as book reviewer for a recent Butch Cassidy book. Springer will give a presentation presen-tation on "Mob Action and Lynching in Park City, 1883" at the Historical Society's next meeting on January 27, in the Kimball Fine Art Center. A Park City "necktie party" par-ty" hijacked a local train by gun point at 11:30 p.m. oil August 24. 18H:i. Hitching a caboose to the engine, the well organized mob silently rolled into nearby Coalville in the early morning hours and surprised guards at the jail and seized the murder suspect, Black Jack Mur- phy. They returned with him to Park City on board Unborrowed Un-borrowed train of the l lah Eastern Railroad. Black Jack was found hanging dead from a telegraph pole in the vicinity of the present Park City train depot. This highly controversial incident in Park City's history will be related in detail along with iiilm'Ming background at the next Park City Hi.storical Sociei meeting in the Kimball Kine Arts Center on Thursday. January 27. li(77 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Jerry Springer, noted area historian and researcher will present to history buffs some vivid happenings about this old silver camp. Springer, a sociologist and writer will give some background on lynch mob behavior, some selected lynchings and the western vigilante movement. The text of his presentation presen-tation will be a detailed ac count of Park City's first lynching from a published research paper he authored in the historical publication 'TheThetean.' The public is invited to attend at-tend this meeting in the Members Room of the new Kimball Fine Arts Center THE aM. I a. 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