Individuality and continuity in a baby's care

It does not seem possible to over emphasise these two factors: individuality and continuity in a baby's care.

Staff in charge of the best residential and day nurseries in the country are devoted people. They use all of their creativity, devotion, and all of the money they can get on trying to provide stability of care for the babies in their charge. It cannot be done. The institution does not only have babies to cope with; it also has staff to deal with. Their training, rotation to different areas of the nursery for experience, promotion, holidays, and sickness produce ever-changing caretakers.

The baby will make no objection because he or she does not yet know one from another. However, their learning of one from another may be delayed if there is no "special" one who lasts. In extreme cases, babies who were cared for in institutions from very early on have developed serious problems.

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