...hiring a nanny. Most parents chose daycare mainly because it is cheaper than a nanny and because it allows their child to learn so much like interacting with other babies their age, learning how to problem solve, share, and it gives them the opportunity to explore so many areas that they may not experience being at home. A daycare is a great example of a for profit organization. The sole purpose of a daycare is to provide quality service and a partnership with the families that are in the center. I have worked as a lead teacher in a for profit daycare for seven years now. I have had the pleasure of learning so much about how the business is ran, what it takes to keep up a daycare and the rules and regulations of having a daycare. I will say it is not an easy task and it takes a lot of research and understanding to keep a daycare up and running. Laws are constantly changing when it comes to providing services to children because of all of the crazy things that people are doing to children in today’s word. The legal and political environment that governs and regulates the economic activates of a country, including political risks, local laws, tariffs, taxes and treats of terrorism (Editorial, Board. 2011). The legal environment of a daycare is determined by the state government in which a daycare is provided. The first law any daycare must obtain is a license within its state to own and operate a daycare. The...
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...Home Daycare vs. Commercial Based Programs Ronnetta Morris English 121 Instructor August 14, 2011 Looking for a daycare center for your child is an important decision that many parents are forced to make. It can be a very stressful process for new parents to find a daycare center for their child when it is time to return to work or school. Unwanted stress can be avoided by parents when comparing daycares if there is an outline of what type of questions to ask. When choosing a daycare it should be based on your family’s needs and moral beliefs. Taking the time to research every daycare center of interest will give a clear vision of daily operations and expectations on what the daycare will be able to offer. This experience can be very challenging but knowing these answers to the questions will give parents self-awareness of what type of child care setting is best for their family unit. Parents can return to work, leaving their child with a right fit childcare provider and with a peace of mind after several observations of the daycare programs. There are three basic childcare centers that exist: in-home, religious based and commercial centers. Parents have the option of an in-home daycare, religious program or a commercial based program. No matter what program you choose, children are taken care of in a loving and nurturing manner. Some of the difference between all three types of programs may be alarming but it’s helpful information. In-home daycares...
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...After another exhausting day at the daycare center, my mother trudges through the door, lets her bags hit the floor, and sighs loudly. “It’s useless trying to talk to these parents sometimes,” she exclaims to no one in particular. “I had another say, ‘I don’t have to listen to you. You people are basically only professional babysitters.’ I do much more than just babysit.” Everyone in the room, having heard this several times before, nod their heads sympathetically but do not actually think about what they are hearing. For a while, I simply followed what the adults did and agreed with everything my mother said. But once I got older, curiosity started to settle in. Since daycare teachers have to receive hours of training, they are obviously gaining the knowledge to do thorough childcare work. Yet how are these skills translated into the work place? What duties do childcare providers have that make them differ from a “professional babysitter?” Fortunately, being related to a daycare worker provides an opportunity for observing firsthand what happens “behind-the-scenes.” One of the most distinguishing features about most daycare centers are the whimsical displays and bright colors that decorate their exteriors. It is not uncommon to find a popular cartoon character painted on a center’s glass doors or to be greeted by a window full of paper snowflakes during the winter. Although these displays are easily overlooked and after a while may even become expected, more work goes into creating...
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...afford to have one of the parents staying at home and taking care of a child. Hiring a babysitter might be too pricey. In a lot of cases taking a child to a day care center is the best idea. In a day care center your child will be under the constant supervision of day care personnel exploring the world with other children of the same age group. I used to babysit my neighbor kids while I was a student. I really enjoyed it and it also was not a bad source of income for me. My two good friends and I absolutely love children and starting a daycare center seems to be a good choice of business for us. We’ve decided to open Little Ducks Daycare. Little Ducks Daycare will provide quality childcare services for middle-class families in Arlington County, VA. According to The Department of Community Planning, as of January 1, 2013, Arlington had an estimated population of 212,900 and among them 10, 800 are kids under 5 years old. Little ducks Daycare will be a partnership managed by 3 partners. Each partner’s responsibility, percentage of ownership, allocation of profits and losses, and other major points will be included in a partnership agreement and signed by all partners. Our center will operate from 7 am till 6 pm, Monday through Friday. We will be closed in observation of all public holidays. Little Ducks Daycare center will offer year round care for children ages 3 months to 5 years old. We expect to open our business on January 1, 2014 and have 25 children enrolled with us. To comply...
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...whose care we leave them in. For instance if I were enrolling my 6-month old child into daycare for the first time I may look at certain characteristics of a daycare before deciding on a daycare. I would look at characteristics such as the physical setting, safety, personal qualifications cognitive stimulation, cost or even the proximity; all these would play a contributing factor to me deciding on a daycare facility that I am comfortable with and also meets my needs and expectations. A lot of daycare facilities have websites that allow parents to view information about their daycare facility. I would review the information and any reviews that may be available on-line and list all potential daycares; I would then contact the daycare so that I could schedule a visit. This will allow me to speak one on one with the director and to tour the daycare during operational hours. Hopefully during this time it will also allow me to speak with my child’s potential teacher and see the classroom as well. Upon my scheduled visit to the daycare facility I will make notes of things that I may want ask while I am there. Once I arrive for my visit I will look at the physical setting of the daycare facility. I will look at the building’s exterior and its landscape to see if it’s being up kept. If I am within sight of the playground, I would look to see if this area is clean as well. I would take observation on the safety on the outside, looking to make sure all gates are secure so that kids...
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...Affordable Daycare for Low-Income Working Families Pamela Durant-Stewart Strayer University Memphis, TN Instructor: Dr. Lisa Joerg Research and Communication- BUS 531 July 07, 2008 Context of the Problem Three out of four children spend at least part of their day with a substitute caregiver, and Southern Mississippi needs to do more to ensure that care is high-quality and affordable. (Todd, C. and Ashton, A., March 2001). It’s not easy for an individual to live comfortably on less than eight dollars an hour. For parents working in low-wage jobs, trying to arrange reliable day care for their children can add another layer of anxiety to an already precarious existence. As part of Marketplace Morning Report’s series on the world of low-wage work, reporter David Schaper looks at the paucity of safe, affordable day care for low-income families. Kharfen, M. (Dec, 2000.) Low-income working mothers with children often have a hard time finding affordable day care. Even when child-care costs are based on a sliding-scale fee, many mothers with minimum-wage jobs can’t pay all of their child-care bills and still have money for housing, food, and transportation. we, as a society, want poor parents to be productive workers, some form of appropriate child care—regardless of parents’ ability to pay—must be available. Whether such care should be provided by employers, faith-based or charitable organizations, or through governmental programs is up to the citizenry to decide....
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...and grad school to attend to, it does not give me a great deal of free time to pursue my lifetime goal of opening up my own day care center. Today, I have decided to turn that goal into a business finally with the support of my friends and family. However, I do need to obtain start-up capital from a lender or from an investor. My goal is to properly convince the lender or investor that opening up my own daycare center is more than just a dream and that I am very passionate about opening up this business and making it a very profitable one. I feel that I have a firm grasp of how to properly run a daycare center, the accounting practices that impact a daycare center as well as the controls needed to safeguard assets to ensure that we stay in compliance and adhere to all regulations set forth. My plan is to start this business inside my home with the name of “Babies & Beyond” located in Somerset, New Jersey, see how well I do, and then perhaps look to expand and build a complete center one day. You are an Entrepreneur! 1. Describe the type of business you have created including: A daycare center is a place for parents to drop their children off with ease and comfort knowing that their money is going to good use to keep their children safe while also providing the children with a curriculum for learning. Daycare programs provide supplementary childcare on a regular basis inside and outside of a child's home and are administered by adults other...
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...Non-parental Child Care and the Developing Child Your name here SOC 312 Instructor Heald August 20, 2012 It has become increasingly difficult for families to enjoy even the most basic of necessities on a single income. Dual-earner families have become more common, which means that non-parental child care has become a necessity. There are three kinds of non-parental child care: in-home care, family day care, and center-based care. Children who receive non-parental child care are positively affected cognitively, psychological, and socially. In-home care is typically provided by a nanny or babysitter. The children are cared for in their own homes, an environment they are comfortable in. Family day care is a home-based child care facility that is licensed by the state. A family day care is run by the homeowners and they can usually only care for a small group of children ages 0 to 12 years. Center-based care has children grouped by age in different areas of the facility with qualified and fingerprinted teachers and aides. Children ages 2 years and older are typically in groups of twelve (12), younger children are in smaller groups as per licensing requirements by individual states. The type of child care chosen is not as important as the quality of care provided by those caring for the children. A study on the cognitive development of young children in non-parental child care states, “it has been shown that children, especially from low-income families...
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...become aggressive over time and are that way as adults. Today, we will explore the idea of how aggressive behaviors differ between different age groups and how these behaviors affect the relationships that children have with their peers. This is an important topic to because many people don’t realize that aggressive behaviors are a normal part of child development and that they don’t always lead to bad social skills and relationships. A study was done by Deynoot-Schaub and Riksen-Walraven (2006) that consisted of the observation of seventy 15-month-olds in their day care centers in order to try to explain the relationship between how they communicated with each other and their temperaments, along with other correlations. Seventy children were randomly chosen from different child care centers that agreed to participate in the study in the Netherlands and they were assessed for peer-peer interactions and peer-caregiver interactions by visitations to the child care centers made by the researchers and a questionnaire given to the parents about the children’s general temperament. Seven groupings were assigned for the children’s contacts with other children and their caregivers so that the children’s behavior could be categorized. The results of the study included more positive peer-caregiver interactions shown among the children than combined positive and negative interactions between the...
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...years there has been an increase in trend for women to be pursuing a career, and hence, working mothers are bound to use daycare facilities to assist them in managing their children along with other responsibilities. These children therefore get a divided share of family/home atmosphere as being part of bringing up. As part of this research project, I shall study the impact of day care facility on the children of working mothers. Keywords: Maternal employment, Working mothers, impacts of external child care, daycare facility, child care, career oriented mothers, physiological health factors, personality development. Problem statement Our problem statement shall primarily be “The effect of using day care facility on child care due to maternal employment.” In simpler words, we shall study the impact of the use of day care facilities by working mothers and its effects upon the upbringing of children. Objectives There is a need to identify if this increasing trend is beneficial for the children in the long run or not. Thus, basic objective of the research shall be to conduct a study and conclude the following: 1. Identify their mental and physiological health factors affecting the children 2. Determine the impact of the above on their childhood and personality development 3. Social complexes developed by them while visiting day care centers 4. Study the Impact on their academic performance in long run 5. Personal development, dependency and mannerism...
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...comfortable with leaving my son in this persons care, even though the references she provided were solid. To make a long story short, my intuition proved correct and the situation did not work. I fired the caregiver, perhaps hastily, and now had to figure out what to do about childcare. The hospital my wife worked at had a childcare facility and luckily, they had one opening that would allow us to enroll our son. The facility was clean and bright, very well staffed, and very open and inviting. The trade-off was that the “tuition” was a bit much for a young couple, but we agreed the safety and development of our son was much more important than the cost. Reflecting back on this with knowledge I now have, it is an absolute certainty that the daycare had a formalized system in place; however, I cannot identify which method. This “system” is the distinguishing factor between the two examples provided above. In one case, the caregiver assumes the role of guardian. The responsibility, if taken seriously, is to protect the child from harm and provide for the child’s basic needs. Robert Furman recognized in 1966 that caregivers are in a unique position to do something more for the child than just keeping them safe and fed (Dougherty, 2009). He recognized that the caregiver could affect the child’s learning and development. Furman posited that childcare experts could be linked with care providers to assist them with their development. In essence, providing an education to the providers...
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...Non-Parental Childcare Paper Jonnathan Estrada Ashford University SOC 312 Child Family & Society Bridget Morales April 09, 2012 In the past half century, there has been a dramatic increase of mothers who have entered the workforce as women have taken on expanding roles in their occupations accompanying the men in our society (Marshall, 2004). In today’s society, it is very common that both parents take on the role of being a breadwinner, seeking a higher education and pursuing their career dreams. This has contributed to the 60 percent of children ages 0-6 and the 50 percent of children ages 6- 14 who receive part time or full time alternative childcare other than from their parents. (Berns, 2010). These statistics have raised questions to researchers as to whether or not children in a day care setting are at any advantages or disadvantages because they spend so much of their time outside of the home. In this paper I will explore the 3 different kinds of non-parental childcare and analyze the influences it may have on a child’s psychological, social and cognitive development. In many situations, a relative, friend, baby sitter or even a nanny may come into the home to take care of a child (Berns, 2010). This setting is commonly mixed between family members who are available such as grandparents who are no longer working and have the time to care for the children...
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...BUSINESS PLAN OF [pic] “EVERY CHILD IS SPECIAL” [pic]EASTWEST UNIVERSITY Course Title Introduction to Business (Bus-101) Prepared For Rumana Parveen Senior Lecturer Business Administration Department East West University Prepared By- 1.Abdalur Rahman Sadi ID# 2009-2-10-167 2.Quazi Shamsul Islam ID# 2009-2-10-154 3.Jubair Rahman ID# 2009-2-10-155 4.Mohammad Golam Syed ID# 2009-2-10-240 5.Mustafijur Rahman ID# 2009-2-10-171 Submission Date: 29-07-2009 PROFILE OF THE GROUP The team of the business plan consists of five members. These members are going to start the business. We will share the ownership of the business equally. The share of the ownership will be based on the investment of the owners. All of the owners are going to invest TK. 8, 00,000/- for the establishment of the business. These owners will take every major decision for the business and they will share the profit or loss of the business equally. We will appoint the management of the business and will closely supervise them. Initially, the five partners or entrepreneurs will hold all the managerial post. However, as we grow bigger then we can consider hiring any professional manager to take care of matters. For any decisions to be approved all of our owners must be agree. Otherwise, the decision will not be accepted. For the better management of the business as well as for the communication and decision-making...
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...Content Review: Week 2 EDUC - 4004 2012 1. Explain why the following terms should not be used interchangeably: impairment, disability, handicap, and at risk. Learning and understanding the related terms of exceptionality helps others to understand the similarities and differences of those with exceptional needs. The terms impairment, disability, handicap, and at risk should not be used interchangeably because the terms have different meanings. Additionally the terms refer to different types of individuals with or without exceptional learning needs. For example, the term impairment refers to the loss or reduced function of a particular body part or limb (Heward, 2009). Such as a soldier who may has a missing limb due to the current war or a child losing their leg after an accident. Handicap is a term that refers to a problem or disadvantage that a person with a disability or impairment encounters when interacting with the environment (2009). Children who may not have an identified disability but have a greater chance of developing a disability are considered at risk (2009). When an educator apply this term to infants, preschoolers, and young school age children because of biological, the home environment, or developmental problems. 2. Explain how each of the six major principles of IDEA will guide your thinking about working with young children as a child development professional. Based on what you learned in the first 2 weeks of the course, if you could recommend...
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...Observation Samantha Evans EC310 June 21, 2015 Barbara Sheats Observation Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Tricia’s Sunflowers, Perry, UT (In-Home Daycare) 9:30 – 11am In this observation, I will refer to the child with a hearing impairment as B. When I first stepped into the room where the child with the hearing impairment was, I immediately noticed a few things around the room that were put there specifically for her. There were flashing lights right next to a clock and there were pictures of ASL signs next to written signs in the room. Right away, I could tell the teacher in this room really took the time to see what she could do to assist in communication. This room has six children, all between the ages of 3-5, and B is the only child who has a hearing deficiency. B wears a hearing device, a cochlear implant, to help her hear better and understand the other children. Although she is encouraged to keep the device on at all times during school, aside from nap time, B will take off her device if she is upset, needs quiet time, or is not feeling well. I arrived just as the children are beginning their morning group session. The teacher in this classroom, Ms. Tricia, knows ASL because she taught her children ASL when they were babies and toddlers to assist in communication. During morning group, as the teacher is talking, she is also signing to B who is sitting in the front and center of the group. It is interesting and heartwarming to see the other five children...
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