Why Is Child Day Care Important

To Be or Not Be Child Day Care

I think that the research done by Tiffany fields, in the article “Today care or not today care: that is the question” answer a lot of question I had about daycare. does early child day care help with the social and development of an infant, is it really a step in the game, or is it just a waste of time for children to be in daycare from such a young age?
Fields, conducts studies from early age on “quality infant day-care and grade school behavior and performance” which I find interesting and informative. What is interesting to me was how she started the research at such a young age, with the children as young as 6 months. To prove that early child care is important, for social and child development, which
proves to be a great start in an infant’s life.
Her studies followed the kids who participated all throughout daycare, and grade school.
I personally think it was smart to see if you imply early child education and early behavior development will the training continue to be a routine, a structure they build for life, or was it just a waste of time? For the looks of it, it’s not. Study shows how well full timer children did around others. The full timer didn’t look for comfort in teachers showed positive emotion than part timers children did. Who’s to think that a few hours can change a child’s behavior. She also had better results with early child care children, which now I wonder about myself. I never attended daycare. Is this why I have a harder time in school and I’m not confident about any work I do.
Fields also found how kids that spent more time in a daycare are less depressed. I would ask if this is true but her research shows it is. I just wish that that Tiffany and her colleagues would have incorporated the study with children who didn’t attend high-quality day care. I guess this is a question that will go unanswered by field’s studies which will keep me thinking. What if a child that didn’t attend a high-quality daycare can achieve all the outcome a child who attend a high-quality daycare does. Moreover, I also found her research to be a little confusing. This might be because I didn’t attend daycare. Just
kidding.
Field’s information doesn’t display whether the result are from infant daycare or from students who attended quality daycare programs. But, shows children who attended high quality have an advantage in academic performance but continues to prove that her finding is consistent with others. Fields, and her study has educated me and has made me realized how quality daycare could be important and I say could be, because she never done a study on children who didn’t attend daycare but did show significant results with children that did attend a quality daycare. The results were amazing.
I just think, poor mothers, poor me.
To think that I only had to worry about carrying my son for nine months and hoping his head wasn’t so big when born but now after reading Tiffany Fields study in the article “Today Care or Not Today Care: That’s The Question”, it’s a good ideas to start looking into a good daycare program for my son, at an early age because it’s important to start early intervention in social and education development. My niece and nephew attended day care but Because of resources it's difficult to be able to afford Child Care, Head start, early Schooling. Melany and Aidan started in a Nursery/ Head Start program since they were babies and they are smarter (ABCs, colors, shapes, numbers) when entering Kindergarden, more independent than other children, potty trained sooner and spoke clearer (less baby talk) than other children. Riley who barely spent time in Daycare is not as social, is more attached to his mother, is speaking later, and shows little interest in potty training. This reminds me of a discussion we had in class about children who parent start teaching at young age will adapt faster to learning. Learning wouldn’t be as hard when they get older because of early
intervention.

Overall the researched was great. I could relate to her research because of my nephews and niece and know because of my son, who I want him to be everything he could be and day care will be a great start for him.