Child Care Settings

Some parents feel young kids shouldn’t attend day care centers because it takes away boding time between a child and the parent, or a child is too young to learn .I totally disagree, a child bonds with their parents from birth, eight hours a day in child care center will not break a parents bond .Studies show the earlier a child a leaves away from their parents its teaches them to become self-sufficient on their own without total dependence of their parents.

My interviewee is a close friend of mine, she is a Curtin university student, as well as working at a daycare center. Her job involves working with children from 0-3 years of age. She provides care and guidance for children as well as teaching kids primary and essential knowledge from young age. She deals with all types of children and she observes the children’s behaviors on daily basis, as this is a important role for her job. In the past she has spent time observing specifically autistic children, she explained how fascinating she found autistic children, and that she would like to learn more about their condition. She explained how often she has to try harder to explain simple things to autistic children, by repeating herself several times, showing him/her examples of her instructions. She also told me how as soon as autistic children understand her instruction, follow her rules to the best of their ability, often doing an excellent job. She said that its as almost if these children are adults, for example when she tells children “it is home time, time to put away all the toys”. Autistic children put the toys exactly where they got them from often in an organized manner. After that I asked her if she is interested in knowing more about autism. she explained her knowledge of autism is limited and that she would like to know why autistic children, have an excellent performance in areas such as, music, art, math and perform poorly in other areas such as,

E1. The five pieces of current legislation which will influence polices within a setting consist of The Data Protection Act 1998. This supports the setting by ensuring confidentiality is kept and personal details are not left on display for all to see.

The present struggle for women in Western societies to manage the double burden of paid and unpaid work has many economic disadvantages. On average women employed fulltime find themselves completing 14.3 hours of housework per week, whereas their male counterparts complete only 6 hours of housework per week . As women are unfairly burdened with domestic responsibilities they often miss out on senior positions. Crab highlights that in 2014 women represented “60 per cent of graduates,” however occupied only “10 per cent of executive positions. And only 2 to 3 per cent of CEO positions.” If women become mothers they are further economically disadvantaged as they resign from their job all together or need to find flexible work, statistically retiring with less superannuation than men . These social structures disadvantage women’s finances and Australia’s economic growth. Pru Goward, former sex

The ideal childcare setting for my 6-month old baby would be one that included all of the assets I was looking for in a child-care. I would first come to a conclusion on why I was sending my infant to a child-care setting, and make a pros and cons list on whether it was feasible to do so, or to stay home with the baby. Some of the assets discussed would include the education of the employees, health, safety, proximity, cost, nutritional needs, mental, cognitive, and emotional stimulation. Each will be discussed in turn.

Berk & Meyers (2015) found that childcare rates in the United States raise serious concerns; rates are set by each state, and the cost is usually high. Berk & Meyers (2015) also found that only twenty – twenty-five percent of childcare facilities with positive, stimulating experiences, and most did not meet standards. Childcare can be affordable even under financial circumstances. A parent attending school, working or seeking work, can inquire at the childcare facility to see if they are aware of available assistance for government agencies, private organizations in the form of a subsidy. They might also be aware of tax breaks offered by state and local government. Circumstances listed above might require a person to seek childcare facility close to home or work. Only a parent can decide which is most convenient. To avoid putting an infant through the ordeal of a long commute, choosing a facility closest to home would be ideal. Yet, if the commute to work is long, and consist of high traffic jams, selecting a facility closest to work, will allow for quick response in case of emergencies at the

The release of the 2002 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Report amplified the public and political pressure placed on the government to implement a national scheme (Baird & Murray, 2014). A change in government at the 2001 election brought with it the strong conservative pragmatist approach of The Coalition government under the leadership of John Howard (Sawer, 1997). Policy changes made under the government during this time placed emphasis on women’s fertility and motherhood rather than their contribution and importance within the labour market (Baird, 2005). Resulting from political pressure felt from paid leave advocates from both political and public spheres, the conservative government introduced the Baby bonus in 2002 to appease their constituents while maintaining their opposition to the introduction of a paid parental leave scheme. This demonstrates the government compromising to maintain a balance between the government’s ideology and public and political support. The baby bonus supplied a small monetary bonus upon the birth of a child and was available, controversially, to both working and non-working women (Baird, 2005). The government’s implementation of various policies during their time in office showed ambivalence or possibly divides within the government surrounding whether women were to be supported as housewives or as wage earners (Brennan, 2007) with the baby bonus placing emphasis on a women’s role as a carer rather than a contributor to the economy (Hill, 2006). Changes in family policies can be linked to demographic trends, especially when birth rates and women’s workforce participation rose, resulting in increased demand on policy makers to alter policies to provide support and alleviate pressures felt by families (Gauthier,

These two chapters go hand in hand when opening or starting a center. It also have ideas of what needs to be discussed continually as a child care center is in operation. Of these two chapters, chapter 5 discusses the budgeting portion while chapter 6 focuses more on the funding of a program.

When it comes to my thoughts regarding the relationship between children’s identity formation and culturally appropriate practices within the toddler setting, I feel that a well-rounded educator is open to all cultures and respects their beliefs, in which helps a child absorb more of their own culture while learning about others as well, but also teaches children to respect others as they want to also be respected. “By reading, reflecting, reading some more, interacting with children, analyzing interactions, and so on, you will facilitate this development.” (Swim, 2017, p.128) In which case an educator is always learning from their students.

Firstly, the child care environment was significantly cleaner than that of the public restroom. I felt that this was primarily due to the surprisingly high number of parents who did not make their children wash their hands or the unaccompanied children that I noticed opting out of hand washing altogether.

Day care centres hold great opportunities for children to learn, to be cared for in a safe, stimulating environment with lots of educational resources where children can play and develop to gain secure attachments, to form security and have sociable peer interactions with others and the world around them.

For any child care setting big or small, one of the primary responsibilities of provider is to establish and maintain an accurate and up to date record keeping system in place, to be able to meet the requirements of government and statutory bodies

My early childhood care situation was closely tied to my family context. My mother only worked a couple days each week, spending most of her time at home caring for my sisters (one older and two younger) and I. When my mother worked, I stayed with my father, grandparents, or family friends. My care situation, therefore, was mostly in a family environment, so there were few problems finding appropriate care or adapting to a care situation. Though preschool and pre-K were important to my development, I believe that my family care situation was one of the chief factors in my development. Their attentive care and purposeful engagement with my growth and play shaped my development in many ways.

The second wave of feminism began in the 60’s worldwide. This wave of feminism primarily worked towards bringing equality into the workplace as well as into education systems. It was also the wave in which women started fighting for reproductive and sexual rights (Seibert, A and Roslaniec, D, 1998). In Australia, the Whitlam Government was specifically working on furthering women’s rights and equality in wages. However, stereotypical gender roles restricted women into continuing to work low status jobs. Whether that was as a child bearer or a housewife it was low status nonetheless. The Whitlam Government attempted to further Women’s rights in 1972 by making a law

As many women move from dependency on either a male-breadwinner or the state. For some women participation in the market has beneficial however because of discrimination, inequity and inequality the labour force is oppressive. As previously mentioned from the 1800s to the 1950s the state viewed women only as a wife or mother, therefore throughout this period women had were not participating in the paid workforce at the same level as men (Mclennan et al, 2010). By the 1980s participation of women in the workforce had radically risen as women were seeking the ability to “be able to choose what they do with their lives- to be homemakers full-time, to have a full-time paid job, or to be part-time in the workforce and part-time at home” (Office of the Minister of Women’s Affairs, 1985, p.4). The market met the needs of these women by providing opportunities for women to either work full-time or part-time, earn an independent income all with textbook equality with their male counterparts (Scott, 2003). The market through strongly encouraging women to work did meet the needs of some New Zealand women but solo mothers who were required to care full-time for infant children at home were not receiving any income and therefore were excluded (Scott, 2003)