Early Childhood Surveys

Early education results from interactions between children and all adults who serve as their caregivers, including parents, relatives, baby sitters, teachers, and foster carers.

This paper will discuss various forms of caregivers, parenting styles, and early childhood education. Topics covered are:

According to the research psychologist, Dennis Cummins, child care is only beneficial to one-parent, low-income households. She notices that based on 50-year long studies, it became evident that daycare experience had positive influence on disadvantaged children, while it was detrimental to the children from two-parent, higher income families. “…early maternal employment was associated with beneficial child outcomes when families were at risk socioeconomically, particularly in the context of families with single parents and on welfare; these findings support the compensatory hypothesis of employment for these families. In contrast, other analyses indicated that employment was associated with negative child outcomes when families were not at

Michele Borba, an educational psychologist and parenting and child expert who is recognized for her practical, solution-based strategies to build strong families and strengthen children’s behavior and character. She says that, “High quality care in early years does affect children’s social, academic, and behavioral development. And those behavior and achievement differences, though small, were still evident more than a decade after parents stopped those day care payments”. Dr. Michele Borba also states that “Parents have far more influence on children’s growth and development than any type child care they receive”, based on a federally funded study by the Early Child Care Research Network; however, she agrees that high quality child care will improve a child’s development. The study showed, “Academic and behavior gains from child care that endured until age 15 were slightly higher when children were involved with ‘high quality child caregivers’. High quality is defined as “caregivers who are warm, supportive and provide high quality cognitive stimulation”. Here, Dr. Borba describes that the parent does have a larger influence on the child’s morals than the caregiver, but putting the child into these care centers will allow the children to thrive in academics. This early growth in education leads to a more developed child who will advance in learning. In a personal interview with Dr. Borba, she said that the quality of the daycare really makes a difference with the development of a child, but does not limit that “nothing beats the attachment of the child with a mother”. Dr. Borba continues to say that she did a report on Ann Curry's child care findings, saying “Impact continues 15 years later. High quality care in early years does affect children’s social, academic, and behavioral development… Teens in high quality child care settings before the age of five scored higher

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study was conducted in the 1990s, and its main goal was to follow 20,000 children from kindergarten to the fifth grade and recorded their academic progress, race, gender, family structure, socioeconomic status, the level of their parents’ education and other survey information. The focal point of the ECLS was to help determine what factors can correlate together when coming from different circumstances. In the study, researchers were able to collect various test scores from the children throughout their years in school, to see if any of the factors correlate to each other. Because the study contained a lot of information, researchers used a tool called regression analysis to weed out excess data, and focus in

Semi structured interviews with two parents from the Early Years setting, were used to give a more in-depth perspective of parents understanding. This qualitative method of research provided a way to guide the conversation to the topic of research, while still giving the opportunities to follow different paths of conversation to clarify and expand on different points and ideas. It was important to have key points written down before the interview started as this gave a focus for questioning. The interview responses and questions were recorded by hand, written notes were taken down throughout the interview, although this can lead the researcher to respond slower and is time consuming, recording the interview on a Dictaphone has been unpopular

Belsky (2007) How early child care affects later development; goes into great detail about a study conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). In 1991 NICHD did a study on what the immediate and long terms effects of child care experiences are for a childs cognitive and social-emotional development. In this study Developmental Scientist in 10 different area’s got mothers shortly after the birth of their child to be part of this research. They studied 1,364 children and their family's starting in infancy and going through child hood to see how the different types of child care effected each child. This study found that regardless of the type of child care a child was in, The parents are actually the most important relationship. It found that Parents are the biggest influence on the childs development. It also said that it is important to pay attention to the quality of the daycare your child is in because when a child

I chose adolescence, early adulthood, and middle adulthood age groups to interview and I asked three same questions to them. My first interviewee is my younger brother who is 14 years old. We have been brother and sister around 14 years since I was 5. I interviewed him in my house, face to face. My second interviewee is one of my best friends in Korea who is 20-years-old lady. We have been friends since high school. I interviewed her through text message. My last interviewee is my great mother who is 44 years old. We have been mother and daughter around 19 years. I interviewed her in my house, face to face. My goals for this assignment is to compare the different age groups and to determine how this person is impacted by the environment, or heredity, or history. My last goal is to have an opportunity to learn something more about them as well.

According to Teaching for Equity and Justice, participatory/experimental means to give children a chance to do hands on activities, which allows them to actually get involved with something rather that telling them information and giving them a test. At the early childhood center, I saw many of the kids showing intelligence through this. When I first walked in the teacher was reading a story to her students and asking them questions to seek participation from her students. Later, I observed children who were painting with popsicle sticks. In this room some kids didn’t want to paint so to get them involved the teachers played music with them. After observing the classrooms, I watched Claire's Classroom. In this video a speaker was informing

Child-care or non-maternal care of a child also has an impact on a child’s development. Research has found that child-care quality is positively correlated with family income indicating that those children living in poverty would be more likely to receive poorer child-care (NICHD, 1997). Studies show that quality early child-care

Today, a lot of mothers of infants under 12 ¾ months need to put their

The program I chose to visit was a child care center at Garrett LLC. For Learning & Growth, located at 1929 S Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60616. The classroom that I observed was an infant classroom, which children’s age between six weeks to one-year-old. The demographic in this small infant classroom was five children, with a ratio of three white boys to two black girls. There was only one six weeks’ infant baby girl in this classroom with a special need such as a need to drink her mother’s breast milk, which her mother already prepared every day six bottles of breast milk for the classroom.

Emma Castillo is a manager of Early Childhood at Lakewood Church for KidsLife; she will be the person this interview research paper will be examined. Before she was a manager at Lakewood, she was a manager at an oil and gas company for about five years where she communicated with clients and provided the orders to the employees. During this time she had the reputation of being distant and hard to communicate with because of her job role with the company was strictly business. Emma showed positive customer service but lacked in positive communication with the employees providing the orders in the chemical laboratory. The employees didn’t feel appreciated for their work ethics.

Throughout these past 5 weeks, I have gain a great deal of knowledge about children and their families, early childhood care, education and community and the impact they have on children’s development. In addition, I have learned, families are not base merely on blood relation, but on people who love and care for your well-being. Children can be impacted by many factors in their life, which as divorce, separation, neglect, mistreatment or disasters. Family dynamics as well, play a part in children’s development, such as being raised in a single parent’s home, adoption or same sex families.

Researchers have identified the importance of interplay in the healthy development of cognition and social development (Biro, Alink, Huffmeijer, Bakermans‐Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, 2015). Engaging in daily interaction will allow infants to mimic and learn socialization, this will influence the way that toddlers and young children engage with peers and caregivers throughout their childhood (Biro, Alink, Huffmeijer, Bakermans‐Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, 2015). Learning to connect with others will encourage individuality, cognition and social skills that can only be learned by experience. Researchers conclude that caregivers and parental figures prove invaluable to developing a healthy attachment with effective social-emotional experiences (Biro, Alink, Huffmeijer, Bakermans‐Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, 2015). Middle childhood, cognitive development throughout childhood is a valuable process that will allow children to flourish both independently and within peer groups (Burger, K., 2009). Scrutinizing diverse social backgrounds and educational availability, researchers have identified long and short term effects in the cognitive development of children (Burger, K., 2009). Data supports that the higher quality of both education and social activity is beneficial to the overall development of an individual, it is important to acknowledge that the quality need not equate to fiscal quality, as it is the time and energy that is given to a child