Advantage and Disadvantages of child day care
Different Child Care and Its Effect on Child Development
Introduction
Every day there is a child born within a family. Families are very diverse. Most families have either one or two parents that provide income for the homes. They must find suitable child care for the children either in home or out of home. This is very important because the decision will affect the child in his development. There are many different factors that examine how child care affects a child’s development such as type of child care, social class, and quality. Do these different factors really make a difference on children development? After all the research and different articles, which is the best choice for child care/
Characteristics of Child Care
There are different characteristics to choose from when choosing care for children such as cost, location, safety, and child development. Research Gamble, Ewing, Wilhelm surveyed over 200 participants on what are the factors are considered when it comes to child care.
Several of the factors that emerged from the present analyses matched our expectations for what parents consider in deciding on child care arrangements or judging quality, including scheduling (e.g., hours of operation) and institutional structure (e.g., teacher student ratios, accreditation, routines, and environmental characteristics).Of particular interest was the emergence of the child centered orientation factor. This factor includes items describing program characteristics that would tailor lessons to a child’s abilities, provide freedom to explore, and encourage curiosity and choice. By knowing what specific characteristics the parents want when it comes to child care allows for parents to make a decision on the type of child care (Gamble, Ewing, Wilhlem, 2009). It is stated by Kim and Fram that, “use of child care is similar for married and single mothers, single mothers are far less likely to rely on the other parent for child care, and more likely to rely
Introduction
Every day there is a child born within a family. Families are very diverse. Most families have either one or two parents that provide income for the homes. They must find suitable child care for the children either in home or out of home. This is very important because the decision will affect the child in his development. There are many different factors that examine how child care affects a child’s development such as type of child care, social class, and quality. Do these different factors really make a difference on children development? After all the research and different articles, which is the best choice for child care/
Characteristics of Child Care
There are different characteristics to choose from when choosing care for children such as cost, location, safety, and child development. Research Gamble, Ewing, Wilhelm surveyed over 200 participants on what are the factors are considered when it comes to child care.
Several of the factors that emerged from the present analyses matched our expectations for what parents consider in deciding on child care arrangements or judging quality, including scheduling (e.g., hours of operation) and institutional structure (e.g., teacher student ratios, accreditation, routines, and environmental characteristics).Of particular interest was the emergence of the child centered orientation factor. This factor includes items describing program characteristics that would tailor lessons to a child’s abilities, provide freedom to explore, and encourage curiosity and choice. By knowing what specific characteristics the parents want when it comes to child care allows for parents to make a decision on the type of child care (Gamble, Ewing, Wilhlem, 2009). It is stated by Kim and Fram that, “use of child care is similar for married and single mothers, single mothers are far less likely to rely on the other parent for child care, and more likely to rely
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