Weekly crèche
Week cribs were in the GDR nurseries for children aged six weeks to three years.
The children were handed in to the care facility on Monday and picked up again on Saturday afternoon. The offer was mainly for parents with a high time load, such as shift workers . Weekly crèches were run as communal or company facilities.
Weekend nurseries as a form of nursery care have been under the Ministry of Health since 1952, whereas the children's nurseries as an institution of pre-school education were the responsibility of the Ministry of National Education.
According to research by Eva Schmidt-Kolmer published in 1959, children in day nurseries experienced “physical and psychological development ... on average faster and cheaper than in week nurseries” .
literature
- Birgit Wolf: Language in the GDR. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016427-2 , p. 251.
Web links
- A lobby for the single-income family , FAZ , February 6, 2007, with remarks on the week nursery in the GDR
- Everyday life in the GDR: The weekly nursery children , Deutschlandradio Kultur , February 22, 2017.
- Ute Stary (formerly Bendt): Weekend day nurseries and children's weekend homes in the GDR. In: Germany Archive. Federal Agency for Civic Education , January 19, 2018, accessed on January 6, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Eva Schmidt-Kolmer: Behavior and development of the small child. The influence of different social milieus on child behavior and its importance for childhood hygiene. Akademie, Berlin 1959, p. 133 ( Google books ).