Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children aged five and younger have spent time in a child care setting (Wohlgenant, et al). This number is increasing and the need for child care continues to be more and more demanding. The big question is whether daycare centers, home care faculties, or the stay-at-home mom the best choice for children? Overall daycare centers are more beneficial to children 's social, emotional, and educational development because of the center ' tighter guidelines. About 57 percent of children are in some type of child care based in a daycare center, while 23 percent were cared for at home by a relative of some sort, and 12 percent are in home care facilities (Davidson 671). Over half of children are in a daycare center, meaning that is the right choice for children when we can provide the right staff, education, social and emotional atmosphere. Every parent wants their child to have the most one-on-one time with the teacher or daycare provider to help improve the child 's education. Within daycare centers, they have requirements on the staff-to-child ratio and the maximum group size they can maintain. The Child Care Center Licensing guidelines state that for every four infants there must be one staff member and the group maximum capacity is eight children (9). This indicates that there will be at least two staff members with just the infants and more staff for the older age groups. As the children get older and become more independent, the
Daycare has become a controversy because of the great quantity of advantages and disadvantages that it involves. While a very large number of parents have to rely on child care centers because of career ambitions or financial needs that only their jobs can fulfill, most child psychiatrists believe that the ideal growing environment for an infant is at home with the family. The problem is that choosing the right caregiver, a good substitute for the parents, is very hard, and the consequences of a wrong decision can be very detrimental to the child’s personality development. This choice depends on many factors like culture, education and especially income. In fact, the financial availability plays the most
Because a high percentage of children were spending majority of their time in a childcare setting, and with those programs ranging in quality, Bermuda was chosen as the site to further this research (Phillips, McCartney, & Scarr, 1987). Nine childcare centers that accepted children from infancy through preschool agreed to participate in the study. These centers were chosen in respect to the diversity of the children’s family backgrounds and director’s experiences in childcare (Phillips, McCartney, & Scarr, 1987). A total of 166 families participated in the study, with criteria being that the child must be three years or older, and attending one of the target centers for six months or longer. Of the 166 children, 130 were African American and 36 were Caucasian. Nineteen months was the
Finding someone to take care of your child during the day can be a tough decision, and you will most likely be deciding between a daycare center and home daycare. Are you aware of what the major differences are between these two options? By understanding the differences, you can decide which one is best for your child’s needs.
Sending children to day care can have short term and long term effects on a child’s
55% of American mothers now return to work by the time their children are one years old -- out of either financial, professional, or personal necessity. In today’s society, there are concerns as to whether attending daycare during infancy produces negative or positive effects on the development of children. Many of these concerns are influenced by the fear that separating an infant from its mother may cause emotional harm to the child or disrupt the mother-infant bond. No study finds that children of employed mothers suffer solely because their mothers are working. Research has shown that mothers who work spend as much time playing with their babies as do mothers without outside jobs (Huston &
Over the past five to six decades women have been entering the workforce in ever increasing numbers. Some enter because of financial need and others for professional and career goals. Whatever the reason, the result for the children is the same; they are in daycare. Many
An increase in baby booming makes it tougher for working parents to find daycare. The facts prove that having children come with a true price. Even so it doesn’t change the issues of finding child care or makes them go away. When parents work, quality child care is a necessity. And it does not come cheap. For families with more than one child, child care can eat up one salary, leaving parents wondering both working is worth it. When thinking of child care there are some options to consider like choosing a child care center, the costs of child care centers, and waiting lists.
Families have many choices for childcare, ranging from in-home care, a childcare facility, an after school program or a
One of the largest social controversies of the current time are the parental pressures attached to whether or not a child should attend daycare. While many parents struggle with this decision, others do not have the luxury of choice; many questions are raised asking if it is beneficial or harmful for infants and young children to attend daycare, spending the majority of their waking hours with caregivers other than their parents. There are of course many opinions and studies regarding this issue. As with any controversial topic there is no right or wrong answers for the masses. The majority of studies conducted all seem to have similar results. This is an issue and dilemma of such personal magnitude that it should not only be regarded
While daycare/ childcare centers provide a safe haven for young children and left in the care of licensed caregivers, there is more to daycare then just temporary relief for parents. These facilities offer a nurturing and fun learning environment to promote curiosity, innovation, and continuous growth in developmental abilities and positivity in children, and they also have the ability to provide encouraging and engaging activities that endorse emotional, social, and academic development (Phillips 1987). Within these facilities, high quality care calls for each child reach greater levels of learning and can develop skills at their own pace under supervision.
If one ever wanted to become a daycare teacher or aide, this essay will be beneficial. Not every day is sunshine and rainbows. Actually, hardly any days are sunshine and rainbows. I’m going to classify the worst type of daycare kids. After reading this paper, others should understand how to handle these kids, or how to avoid them.
Childcare is the starting point in your children 's lives. The choices you make on childcare can affect them greatly. It is when they will begin to meet the friends that they will grow up with as they go through grade school. Children need this step in their lives to adjust from staying at home, to staying with other children in a completely different surrounding. There are so many different options for childcare now a days, it is extremely hard to say which is the most beneficial for children. In this paper I will discuss the childcare decisions that my mother made for me, what to consider when evaluating childcare, and compare them to some of my references and see how they are similar and also how they differ.
While working in daycare for many years and listening to parents concerns I would hear one complaint over and over. “Why is my child not potty trained yet?” Parents expect way too much from daycare workers. They expect the daycare to teach it all since they are paying a high price for their child to attend. Personally I did not want daycare workers teaching my son the things that I could teach him. I wanted to be the one to teach him everything, especially things like how to write his name and tie his shoe. When my son was in the preschool room, I asked the pre-k teacher what he should know by the end of pre-k. She gave me a list and he conquered everything on the list before he began pre-k. Many families have both parents working. Child care may be their only option, however I have witnessed too many parents abuse it. Some parents will bring their children into the daycare at 6:30 am and will not pick them up until 6:00 pm. These children do not get the quality time needed with their parents. There were many children who were better off at daycare than at home, so child care was definitely a positive atmosphere for them. Too many times I witnessed a baby take their first step in the nursery. This is a memorable milestone that most parents look forward to. They should be the ones to witness this, not a daycare
While there are some caregiver’s that are only in the human service field to earn a paycheck and with the lack of parental involvement in their child’s life, it can make a caregiver’s job more challenging. Daycare centers serve as a stepping stone for a child’s future that will teach them how to establish appropriate skills and aid in the development of their cognitive abilities. Positive child interactions not only aid in the development of social and cognitive development, but also in the child’s self-esteem and it lets them know they are important and loved.
The use of child daycare has been debated endlessly. It has become hard to determine how it may aid in the development of a child’s cognition or if it hurts it instead. This is partly because of the wide variety of types of child care and the opportunities that are given to young children. Fortunately, measures have been created to help standardize what a daycare does and how it is run. In this paper, several studies are assessed and the criteria that daycares are held to are evaluated. The effect of home environment is compared to the effect of a child being at daycare during the day. It is important to establish a high quality daycare while simultaneously engaging the child in a healthy life at home.