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Deep Dive.

Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast, parents, you've been lied to, you've been told that it's

not a problem to put your career above raising your babies.

You've been told that your children actually need early childhood education, preschool,

daycare, what have you, because it's important for them to be around other babies and toddlers

all day so they'll be socialized and well-adjusted, nonsense.

The lives you've been told and the lives you tell yourself have all been destructive to

society and to our children.

Just about any elementary school teacher can tell which of their students spent their

early years in daycare-like settings and which had loving mothers at home with them.

How simply based on the differences in their behavior, the tenderness, the security,

the peace of being with mom all day makes an enormously positive impact, especially

in the first three to five years of your child's life.

Kids need their parents, and ladies I especially want you to understand your value as a mother,

you can't be replaced by the hired help, by a nanny, a babysitter, or a daycare worker.

I've asked countless callers and thousands of people in live audiences, this is what

I've said, if you died today and were reborn tomorrow, would you like to be born into

a home where you'll be cared for by a nanny, nine plus hours a day, or would you choose

to be taken out of your crib each morning and driven to a child care center where you

spend most of your day, or would you like to be loved, all your waking hours by your very

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