Revision:Day Care and its Effects On Child Development

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Wild variety types of day care is amiable for children under age of 8, organised by local councils, voluntary organisations, private companies or individuals.

There is variety of reasons why families need day care services such reasons are:

• The parents are working or studying,
• One parent is ill and the other is working,
• They are single parent family and the parent goes out to work,
• The parents require a break from the demands of childcare.

Types of child care

As I've mentioned that there are many types of child care services that cane use such as:

• Relatives
• Childminder
• Nannies/mothers helps
• Day nurseries
• Crèches
• After-school care schemes
• Holiday care schemes
• Supervised activities
• Respite care schemes
• Baby-sitters

Relatives

Usually be in the care of a person that child knows well. As a result, there are no less likely to be a problem of getting used to strangers and to different surroundings and way of things.

Childminders

A childminder is a person who looks after one or more children, under the age of 8years. Choosing a childminder, any person who looks after a child has an influence on the way that child develops, so it is important for parents to choose childminders carefully. Parents are advised to:

• To go see several childminders before selecting one,
• Always choose registered childminders.

Law requires Childminders to register if they receive a payment. The childminder also need to be inspected by local authority to be assured that the facilities are of the recommended health and safety standards.

Nurseries

Nurseries are staffed with by trained nursery nurses and provide care for all or part of the day. They may take children of a few months old as well as those approaching school age. They may be private or state run, some of the latter may be provided specifically to help children growing up in deprived circumstances.

Garland and White (1980) carried out an observational study of children in day nurseries which led them to define two types of nursery care:

• Child-centred nurseries emphasised physical needs and the emotional support.
• Educational-centred nurseries focused on the intellectual needs.

Garland and White reported that nurseries seemed to find difficulties in providing both types of care but argued that physical and emotional needs should be the main concern, because intellectual development was unlikely to progress much in a child who was ill or emotionally insecure. Other studies show that children who have attended nursery become more active and less aggressive. They like school more than those with out nursery experience. The exceptions are children who are shy: they are unhappy at nursery and at school.

Day care or home care

Research into the qualities that distinguish good quality day care show that it should provide:

• Care that suits the child's emotional, social and intellectual development,
• Enough adults to provide frequent and lengthy personal contact between child and adult,
• Law staff turn out and familiar routines,
• Complex use of language,
• Stimulating activities.

These conditions should be provided.

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