Establishing Routine In Child Care

The child needs consistency and familiarity so that he can orientate himself and construct a mental picture of the world. This need is particularly evident in the child from about the age of 18 months. The child may become very upset by minor changes in his life. This stage coincides with the stage that he first realises that he is able to manipulate his environment by moving objects from one place to another, so by providing order in the child’s life, this helps children to find objects where they previously saw them and it prevents them becoming disorientated. This is why the “prepared environment” is so important for the young child. Order helps the child to orientate himself and organise his mind.

Over the past five weeks, data has been collected from the process of getting my daughter, Sophie, ready for daycare in the morning. I have tracked six key areas, or steps, in the process: The time it takes to wake her up, The time it takes to get her to go to the bathroom, The time it takes to get her stuff ready, The time it takes to get her dressed, The time it takes to brush her teeth and hair, and The time it takes to get her into the car. In this paper, I will discuss what I have discovered based on this data, I will identify roadblocks to the process and recommend strategies to overcome them, and I will discuss the variables which affect the steps in the process. Finally I will discuss

* Be able to provide routines for babies and young children that support their health and development.

When considering a child’s needs and routines in your setting, it is important that we communicate with the parents and find out a little about the home setting so we can carry it on when they come into our care, the more we talk to the parents the more we can help the child’s emotional needs and routines.

An arrival routine can be adaped for a baby, toddler and school child . A parent and child will arrive at the setting they can then choose an activity thats set out in the morning , for example lego for a school age child, a farm for a toddler and noisey toys for baby.

Despite being a two hour a day drop off daycare the Kid Zone is a primary agent of socialization for children who are not in all day daycares or some form of traditional schooling yet. A child can learn quite a bit in the time they spend in the Kid Zone especially when the child is there on a daily basis. Due to the nature of regular children often coming in my coordinator felt it was necessary to add a scheduled “curriculum” to the daycare. This curriculum is composed of basic daycare activities you would see in a standard preschool. Things such as physical activities, crafts, reading and establishing a number and letter based mindsets are all utilized on a daily basis at set times. The time we spend with the children may be short but as their

Last week we met as a team to create a transition plan for two children to return to their father’s care due to the father obtaining and maintaining housing, employment, and sobriety over the past ten months. The children were present at part of the meeting and contributed their thoughts about returning home with their father. The children then expressed being excited to be able to move home with their father. The transition was set up to have the children in their father’s care on October 14th so that the children would start their new school following fall break. I met with the father this week on Wednesday and found out that the father had quit his job on Tuesday. As we talked the father stated that his supervisor was being disrespectful Monday morning and continued to be disrespectful throughout the day and the father was unable to tolerate the disrespect any longer so he did not return to work on Tuesday resulting in a no call no show. I provided the client with several employment leads to local businesses and encouraged him to apply quickly. I notified the FCM

Two pieces of legislation that ensure quality provision are The Children’s (Scot) Act 1995 and The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004.

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.

With so many children attending day-care centres today while their parents are at work, it is important that these centres help children to achieve personal and social development at the proper rate. The best way for these centres to accomplish this task is to utilise effective child care strategies. Strategies just guide the educators through the process of assisting the children in their care in developing the necessary personal and social skills for them to succeed in life. Learn about these some of these strategies here in this information.

A day of caring for a toddler may leave you tired and with little time to focus on other tasks at the end of the day. Toddlers need constant supervision which makes time scarce for any activities that do not revolve around the child. While caring for a toddler, you have to be aware of any hazards around you. For example, small toy parts could be choked upon and bodies of water could cause drowning if the child is left unattended. This, coupled with feeding, clothing and entertaining the toddler can easily keep you busy the whole day.Consequently, good planning and baby-proofing are two good ways of making sure that you have some time and energy left at the end of the day to tend to

Asking how day care affects children’s behavior and development is almost like asking how parenting affects children’s behavior and development. Day care has many effects, some negative and some positive. These effects depend on the quality of the care, the type of care, and the amount of time spent in caring, just like parenting. Children spending more than ten hours a week in the care of someone other than the mother has a long reach. Time spent in day care at a young age negatively affects a child’s social-behavioral development.

Daycare’s three main areas of expertise are creating an environment for personality development, cognitive ability and educational readiness. (Eberstadt, 2004). It would be simple enough to say that modern daycare meets these goals. However, like most definitions, it can vary. In today’s society, daycare is seen as more of a typical workplace rather than an exciting learning environment. Daycare as it’s known today started back in France in the 1840’s. About a decade later, it came to America. Today, there are countless daycares all across America, varying in shape, size, and most importantly: quality of care. An association that checks early childhood credentials is the Childhood Development Associate. The CDA has six main goals, and the first (and arguably most important), is “to establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment”. These days, not every goal that is set is achieved all of the time. Daycare is harmful for all parties involved due to stressors for workers, parents, and children.

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.

My question relates to my idea that I would like to explore further, I think it would be really fascinating to see how early childcare settings accommodate children with diverse needs while using developmentally appropriate practices and maintaining inclusion as well as the overall well-being of the child. I think comparing developmental appropriate practices to the Montessori method could be interesting as well as I believe they are both related and can be used together to direct independence and self-directed learning from children. It would be interesting to see if early childcare settings bounce beliefs and ideas from both to create beneficial activities for their children.