Daycare is a huge thing to consider. You start by considering if you want your child being raised by someone other than yourself or if you want your child to grow up with other children from a daycare. Your child will be influenced by people and experiences with you not there. Good things that you gain from daycare are that your child learns to interact with other children. They learn to share and excel faster in school. Children should have some interaction with other children when they're young. Daycare is a good way to get your child to play with other kids and have more experience with people. They become more independent at a younger age. The important thing is to have a good quality daycare. Daycare is a necessity for a lot of families they need to provide for their family. A working parent needs to be able to work with out worry. Knowing that you have a quality daycare can ease a parents mind. Studies have shown that children do very well in daycare. A parent should also be able to have a career and children. Continuing to work after having a child is a personal choice if your career is important. More and more parents are working and placing their children in daycare. Statistics show In 2000/01, 85% of children aged six months to five years who lived with a single parent who worked or studied were in some form of child care. This was a significant increase from 78% in 1994/95. Among children who lived in households with two parents who worked or studied, two-thirds (66%) were in child care in 1994/95. By 2000/01, this had increased to nearly 73%. Whatever a person circumstances are, daycare is more and more popular and positive.
Resources:
http://blogs.trb.com/features/family/parenting/blog/2010/05/day_care_yes_no_or_maybe.html
http://www.amotherinisrael.com/over-parenting-and-daycare-dilemmas/
http://twinmommusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-care-is-it-risky-stop-guilt-already.html
By: Brooklynn
Brooklynn,
ReplyDeleteDaycare is a huge thing to consider! We have been trying to find daycare for my little nephew for a very long time and it is definetly not easy! A lot of daycares that are run out of homes have too many children. The daycare centres are set up quite well, but never seem to have openings, so you are placed on a waiting list. It can be very frustrating trying to find the perfect daycare for a child.
Brooklynn,
ReplyDeleteI think that the topic you picked is a good one because it is hard to make a decision on whether you should send your child to day care or not. This is a difficult decision because you want your child to be in good hands while your not there to take care of them. You also want them to be educated while they are at day care and be able to learn how to get along with other children while they are there. When they are there you don't want them to pick up bad habits from the other children that are also at day care. You want them to learn good habits and proper behaviour.
I believe daycare can be a great learning experience for young children as long as it is in moderation. Kids need the chance to interact with others and learn key skills like sharing and communicating. But I also believe that a child should spend more time at home or with a parent then at daycare. Your job as a parent is to teach your children and provide for them, not just pay for others to do it.
ReplyDeleteI think daycare is a good option for some families. When both the parents are working, then its great to use daycare, that way the child can learn to socialize with kids his/her own age (as opposed to being raised by a grandparent or nanny). And most people would ten to agree that socialization is a good thing. A family should not use daycare for a lame excuse, such as going to bingo or something along those lines
ReplyDeleteI think it’s great that so many parents put their children in day care. Interacting with other children can really help the child to grow in ways they never could if they were always just with their parents. But, children do still need their parents in their lives, and they shouldn’t abuse day care to the point that they never see their children.
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