Daycare Disadvantages

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.

On-Site daycares would also be more time efficient for employees as they and their children will be going to one destination, opposed to travelling a further distance to drop of their kids before arriving at work. Dually this also compliments time effectiveness because employees can work later hours without the inconvenience of having to leave early to retrieve their child from a further daycare facility. In cases such as illness for the child, it also saves time for the company and the worker for the employee to be able to take their child from work to a hospital or other destination without the extra travelling.

Firstly, According to Payscale, the average hourly pay rate for a daycare employee is $9.53 per hour. This is very similar to the wages that many single working parents are earning. Furthermore, many young women find that leaving their children in the costly care of others so they can afford childcare costs is absurd. Companies such as Walmart and McDonald’s earn billions of dollars in

It is becoming more common for corporations to provide daycare facilities as a fringe benefit for their employees. What has evaluative research found regarding the costs and benefits of these facilities?

Childcare is not just changing diapers and playing with toys. I know this because I have been working in childcare for over six years. A person wanting to enter the childcare field always has to pass the obvious requirements, a background check, and mental illness check. Before they start there is more they need to know before they are ready to care for a child.

30 percent of Early Childhood educators change or leave the field completely every year. Think of that percentage, 30 percent altogether. That is a pretty large number to factor in annually. “It is estimated that staff turnover can cost, at a MINIMUM $3,000 for each lost employee.” (Page 200) Not only is it hard on the company and director when employees turn over, but it also becomes hard on the children and families at the childcare center because they have created a personal relationship with the employee! As most people know, there has always been a major factor that plays into the childcare field and that is low wages and poor benefits. Whether you are a teacher or a director, you really have to have passion for the field of childcare

Zampetti, J, (1991) stated that by implementing Onsite childcare this can serve to alleviate workers childcare concerns and greatly improve productivity. He further stated that this service could be a powerful tool to help with recruiting qualified and highly skilled staff and in the retention of current workers. This is attested to by McIntyre, L, (2000) who argues that onsite child care benefits foster an environment where worker are able to focus on the work at hand, because of the knowledge that their children are in capable hands, usually a close

Kossek, E. E., & Nichol, V. (1992), argue that on-site childcare service is now routinely provided by 12% of US companies having a staff of approximately 100. Based on their extensive research of two hospitals, like Children they concluded that the more workers using onsite childcare the less problem there was with childcare needs and that these workers were more positive. This is also supported by (Schandl, K, 1992) who reported that employees with on-site childcare have less absentees, less tardiness and that the service was positively influenced the workers’ decision to remain with the organization.

Daycare and in-home care are two different types of care a child could receive while growing up. I think that daycare is better than in-home care for a child. Because it gives child a developmentally appropriate educational learning, social learning with other kids their age, and haves a school-like environment.

Are you debating whether to send your child to daycare or to be a stay at home parent? Parents always face this question when their children reach a certain age. Nearly three-quarters of American mothers with children at home are employed. Many parents pick daycare over being a stay at home parent. Many people don’t know what daycare actually is. Daycare is a facility that takes care of children while their parents are at work. Stay at home parents don’t normally work, and stay at home with their children for most of the day. The ones that do work, work at home. It is very clear which one is better for children development. Daycare is better than stay at home parents for children development.

If you work outside your home and you have children, then you know how important it is to have quality, early child development and care for them. And if you’re like most parents, you’re probably wracked with guilt about having to leave them in the care of strangers all day; but take heart, outside-the-home child care is worse for you than it is for your children. In fact, placing your children in a high-quality early child development and care center can have a number of short- and long-term benefits for them that include:

On-site child care reduces stress and eliminates worry. Parents no longer have to find reliable, acceptable and proximity-close care. Employee's attention is solely on work and not elsewhere.

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.

Socialization- Kids will have a better opportunities to talk to other kids at the daycare. This will keep them from having antisocial behavior while growing up.

When choosing to send a child day care you have to think about the type of learning you want them to receive, the type of environment you want them in, and the people which you are leaving your child with. According to Berger (2014), “Social learning is considered an extension of behaviorism. According to that theory, people model themselves after people they perceive to be nurturing, powerful, and yet similar to themselves” (p. 293). So if a baby has positive influence such as a care provider who was kind and loving, they will pick up those traits, rather than if they had a negative one and learned to act out and curse. Babies adjust themselves to the people they are around in their lives and the behavior they see. The person caring for our children have as much of an impact as the parents. Day care is where babies typically spend most of their day, therefore being in daycare will affect their development by picking up the behaviors of the children around, as well as the caregivers. With babies in child care facilities, it aid in the developmental skills such as: language development, information processing, and emotional development. I think when choosing a daycare quality over quantity matters most. While working parents rely on daycare, they cannot always afford the best one so they have to choose a daycare