...Daycare: Good or Bad? Hope Plummer English 122: English Composition 2 Instructor Larry Holden 3/02/2014 Daycare: Good or Bad? In this day and age, more women are becoming more active in the workplace which forces them to leave their children in a daycare atmosphere. The first few years of a child's life are detrimental to their development. In general, traditional daycare settings do not have a reputation for being emotionally healthy, so we must ask ourselves the question, is public daycare worth the risks? In this paper, I will provide compelling examples as to why I believe public daycare settings are unhealthy for positive cognitive and social development as well as my suggestions for what type of childcare would be healthier. One of the reasons parents opt to keep their children out of daycare is due to the amount of germs their child will get exposed to on a daily basis. 'Children in day care centers are more likely to catch an infection than kids who do not attend day care. Children who go to day care are often around other kids who may be sick.'(Kaneshiro, 2012) This is partly due to the high number of children in each classroom and caregivers not using the proper sanitary actions necessary with high volumes of children. There are simply too many children to look after. This leaves many classes understaffed. I personally worked at a daycare for a decent amount of time and I can vouch for that fact firsthand. There...
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...Child Care Tammy LeStourgeon SOC312: Child Family & Society Instructor: Rebekah Clark October 8, 2012 In today’s society, it has become more and more difficult for a family to live comfortably and enjoy the even the most essential necessities of life on the income of one family member. In most households today we find a dual family income which has made the operation of non-parental child care increasingly more common. Non-parental child care, as referred to in our text, is any care given to a child or children by any individual other than the parent(s) during which time of the day both parents are absent. There are many way within which parents provide care for their child. Non-parental child care can be in the fashion of in-home care by a nanny or babysitter, a family member or friend caregiver, or a professional day-care center. Each of these non-parental caregivers, as with the parent, is equally responsible for positively affecting the child cognitively, psychologically and socially. The setting for a child might be in-home care by either a nanny or a babysitter. This care would be at the child’s home wherein the child is most comfortable. The individual caring for the child may be that of a nanny or a babysitter. During the initial years of life, the child will be forming the attachment and developmental relationships that are vital to his/her future. If successful, the child will also create such a relationship with its in-home caregiver...
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...Children in Non-Parental Care Rachel Metzger SOC 312 Rebekah Clark August 29, 2012 Children in Non-Parental Care Non-Parental childcare has become very important to many families and for different reasons. One of the main reasons of course, is simply because the need for two incomes is on the rise so both parents are now working. There are three main types of non-parental care that parent can chose from; a daycare setting which generally sees anywhere from 10-20 in a classroom, an “at home” daycare with a personal provider which is generally much smaller, 5-6 children or someone who comes to their home such as a relative or nanny. “In 2005, 61% of children from birth to age six spent some time in non-parental child care” (Alexander, LaRosa, Bader, & Garfield, 2010, p. 427). All three different child care services have their advantages as well as disadvantages and it is up to the parent(s) to decide what is best for their child. One of the most popular forms of non-parental care would be the traditional daycare setting. Traditional daycare would be in a center where the child (ren) is taken care of with six to twenty other children depending on their age group. Infants have a much smaller teacher to child ratio than the children in the five year old age group. Child care centers must be accredited and meet certain regulations for nutrition, staff qualifications children safety. This type of child care tends to be the most expensive, but for older children can be more...
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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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...would babysit after work. After giving a lot of thoughts, I decided to start my own daycare out of my home. My daycare would be open 24 hrs. Because the daycare is out of my home I will be saving on leasing a building. This paper will show the benefits of my day care. It will also have a chart that implement how funds are coming in and being spent. The usage of General Accepted Accounting Principles will also be discussed. It would also explain insurance just in case of accidents. This paper would also explain that is regulatory environment and why it is important to this company. Key words: daycare, GAAP, and regulatory environment As a business owner of Doctors Daycare, you can make average money or supplement a spouse’s income by running a childcare service from your home. Running a daycare from your home allow you order to spend time with my own children while still being able to bring in some money to contribute to the family budget. Have a daycare business is not so whatever your reasons be sure this is really what you want to do before you make your move. You have to love working with children to run your own childcare business. If you don't enjoy working with them it will show. Keep in mind these families are entrusting you with the welfare of their children. Find out if another home based childcare business is needed in your area. Some areas are very short on decent home based childcare businesses or any childcare service. Already established childcare...
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...to do for research?” This was because, the whole time that I was anxiously scrambling back and forth about which study I wanted to do, there was already one right in front of my eyes the whole time. For the past few months I have been working at a daycare, a place where children are dropped off by their parents when they need to do things on their own and can pick them up whenever is necessary. The daycare that I work at is family ran and takes place inside their very own home. The inside of the house portrays a peaceful setting with warm, cozy colors in the living room to make you feel relaxed and bright, energetic colors in other rooms that leave you feeling happy and comfortable. The daycare provider, Debbie, has been working with children for 40 years. She is a very well known person throughout the community and treats the kids she works with as if they are her own. After thinking for a while about what I wanted to do as a study, I decided that I wanted to do something involving children and the relations/interactions that they have with their parents. Seeing how I work at a daycare, I do not really get to see much of the interaction that the children and parents have with each other. That is the whole point of a daycare, parents separating from their children for a period of time so they can get whatever it is that needs to be done accomplished. So one may ask, “How do you plan on finding out such behaviors when you do not get to see them together?” And that’s the...
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...Non-Parental Child Care Kiana R. Hoover SOC 312: Child, Family & Society Instructor: Kara O’Brien February 13, 2012 Non-Parental childcare is very important for many different reasons. It helps working parents attend to their child’s needs when they themselves can’t do so. Non-Parental childcare helps teach and mold children from an early age. It also helps children learn how to become self reliant earlier rather than latter on down the road. I went to a type of non-parental daycare facility it was fun and I was excited to go. I will talk about 3 different types of non-parental child care facilities which are childcare small childcare facility with 12 kids or less, childcare in a center with 30 or more kids, unrelated childcare in the kid’s home. I will then analyze the influences that non-parental childcare has on psychological, social and cognitive development on the children. There are many ways that parents provide for the care of their children during work-times. The setting for child care is a home or a center. The home may be the child’s own home, a relative’s (grandparent, aunt, etc.) home, or the home of an unrelated person. The individual caring for the child in the child’s own home may be the parent, a relative, or an unrelated person such as a babysitter. Home care can include the simultaneous care of many children from many families. Home care is sometimes referred to as family day care, even though the family may not be the child’s own...
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...Promotion Strategy…………………………………………………….. 10 • Promotion Schedule……………………………………………………. 11 • Promotion Strategy (cont.)……………………………………………… 12 9. Implementation Phase …………………………………………………………. 13 10. Executive Summary ……………………………………………………………. 14 11. Bibliography …………………………………………………………………….. 16 Company Description Kids “R” Us Babysitting Service is a new and local child care service located in Harlingen, TX. After performing a brief survey to the local families in Harlingen, their main concern was trustworthy and reliable child care in the evening hours at their home. Reva Leanna Rodriguez, founder of Kids “R” Us Babysitting Service, knew this was exactly what the families of Harlingen needed. Kids “R” Us offers local babysitting services for children 0-12 years of age, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week in the comfort of your own home. Our employees are trustworthy, reliable, have numerous references, years of experience, and most importantly background checks. Employees are taken through a vigorous screening/training process to ensure the safety of your children comes first. Unlike private hiring of child care, only Kids...
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...Childcare and Education Preshay Weatherspoon English 122 Prairie Markussen April 7, 2014 Childcare and Education Some may disagree that the best place for children ages three and under are day care and preschool programs. In early child care education there are many benefits for children. My argument is to state the different advantages in early education. The results of the Parental Childcare and children’s Educational Attainment study shows that with the control of time, the health of a child will not have an effect on the age in which he can enroll in school. After controlling for endogeneity the results of the study were profound, and that childcare time should never be omitted because it can bias the study. While the health of a child does not factor into him or her being able to attend school according to the health service applications and immunization program for childcare providers, many childcare providers believe that immunization of children is highly important but they do not have the education, training, or information needed about these infectious diseases. Children have about seventeen scheduled immunizations before the age of 24 months, and laws require childcare providers to maintain the records and enforce immunization standards but not to educate themselves about it. This study measured if there was truth to childcare providers seeing the importance of immunization, and the value of an education seminar or some sought of teaching to provide childcare...
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...| DAY CARE CENTERS | | | | | | Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction: 2 Thesis Statement: 4 Child Care Business 4 For-profit day care 5 Non-profit day care 5 Social Effects: 6 Developmental Skills: 7 Physical Skills: 8 Educational and Behavioral Effects: 8 Social problems and resolve: 9 Staff 9 Quality 10 Data 12 Pros and Cons Compared in Different Child Care Setup 16 Conclusion: 19 Works Cited 21 Executive Summary Many of the children in America and other economically developed nations are taken care by individuals who are neither their legal guardians nor their school instructors. Such organizations play a very important role in the overall development of the child, firstly they allow the parents to earn money for child’s future or in case of a single parent it allows the opportunity of employment to the parent, secondly it also helps in the development of the children by intervening in his normal course of study in his early years of studies, this mostly helps the children who are differently abled. This report brings out what is good for the development of the children, what a child care is all about and what is the viability of such an institutions? The basic motive of this paper is to bring out the positive and negative aspects of child care centres. Here, we give an outline of the quantity of kids being taken as subjects for our study; portray hypothesis and proof about the private's way kid consideration...
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...Business Expansion Ciara A. Carter-Rhodes Western Governor’s University 1. Viability of product Children of God’s Daycare originally began in the home of the owner Claudette Douglas over a decade ago. Mrs. Douglas founded the idea to expand her dream of taking care of the needs of the community by establishing a day care center versus home child care. This personal aspiration became a reality when Class A licensing permits were established, a site chosen, and Children of God daycare was open for business in June 2011(http://www.dss.state.la.us.) This company thrives on the notion that the early stages in a child’s life are very important to their growth and development. Choosing a good child day care center is vital as more parents in today’s world have employment demands and require suitable day care centers for their children. Children of God’s daycare is providing learning programs and playtime for your child, along with a safe and healthy environment. At present, this business does not have an online presence nor strategy to strategically place them at a better advantage within the day care community. All inquiries from parents in the community are based upon location of daycare site, word of mouth, and flyer handouts within the community. Despite not having an online presence, this company would like to strengthen and grow their sales by acquiring their target audience of working...
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...snapshot of industry The pet care industry entails the comprehensive care of domestic animals. For example, when your pet fish needs food, a consumer purchases the fish flakes from a pet supply store. Another example of a segment in the market is a veterinarian. When your pet is sick, you take it to be treated. The overarching industry also includes buying pets. Since the pet care industry is very broad, and dominated by PetCo and PetSmart, we are focusing on the niche daycare (boarding) segment of the industry. The daycare industry focuses on providing supervision, companionship, and exercise services for a consumer's pet while away. In 2011, 63.2% of pet owners considered their pets to be family members according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.5 The demand for quality care of animals while the “parents” are away is incredibly high. The pet daycare industry provides the supervision and interaction that comforts pet-owners during either a long-term, short-term, or even daily stay. The main reasons pets are dropped off at a daycare are either due to vacations or daily jobs that take owners away from pets. Very often in this industry a pet daycare facility will offer other pet services such as grooming, pet food sales, and pet supply sales as add-ons to the primary service of boarding; however, this makes up a small percentage of total revenue. Industry specific statistics and details re: pet daycare and boarding The overall pet care industry was worth $55.72...
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...Parental Child Care Rhonda Swazer SOC 312 Instructor Rebekah Clark May 31, 2012 Non Parental Child Care Non-Parental child care is very important for many different reasons. It helps working parents attend their child’s needs when they themselves can’t do so. Non-parental childcare helps teach and mold children from an early age. It also helps children learn how to become self reliant earlier than latter on down the road. There are 3 different types of non-parental child care facilities which are childcare small childcare facility with 12 kids or less, childcare in a center with 30 or more kids, unrelated childcare in the kid’s homes. There are many ways that parents provide for the care of their children during work-times. The setting for childcare is a home center. The home may be the child owns home, a relative (grandmother, aunt, etc) home, or the home of an unrelated person. The individual caring for the child in the child’s own home may be the parent, a relative or an unrelated person such as a babysitter. Home care can included the simultaneous care of many children from other families. Home care is sometimes referred to as family day care even though the family may not be the child’s own family. Sometime going to a head start can make a child feel like a big boy or girl. For some children head start can be very reliant and the child can be very excited about learning. In home day care is very popular today a small day care facility that...
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...The combination of family grouping, continuity of care, primary caregiving and rich partnerships with families enhance healthy infant development and learning in the context of infant care in which family groupings have “a small number of children of different ages that are cared for in the same room” (Swim, 2017, p.13) in which case providing the opportunity for children and infants to interact with similarities close to their home environments. Leading to that of continuity of care in which this group of children has the same teacher/caregiver work with them, providing a stable and a “high-quality programming for very young children.” (Swim, 2017, p.13) Primary caregiving also bonds infants with their caregiver, in which case there...
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... In facing our responsibilities as a parent, choosing the “right” childcare is a critical choice. Choosing appropriate childcare encompasses more than just being a mere convenience or financial expenditure. Facing such a critical choice as parents we must understand and take into consideration the decisions we make today potentially affect our children positively and negatively for the rest of their lives. Conventional families must adapt to their environments; primarily both parents must work in order to maintain an appropriate manner of living even for the basic necessities of survival. If perhaps you cannot rely on local family members or friends to assist you with your childcare needs, professional daycare is the primary option for parents working outside the home. Case Study Overview In this case study; John and Sue have a happy and healthy 8-month old daughter, Tyree. As with the majority of mothers in this world, Sue has to return to work; this means precious little Tyree must be placed into childcare. Upon touring several childcare facilities, John and Sue must make that forever critical decision on behalf of their daughter; placing her in childcare, away...
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