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By
Catherine M. Pruissen
Daycare,
What Every Parent Should Know
- Daycare
plays a major role in your child's emotional, intellectual,
and physical growth. Poor care can stunt your child's
ability to do well in school.
- Low
standards of hygiene and safety in a poor child
care setting can lead to injury and illness in children.
- Many
child care settings are unregulated. Even where
regulations exist, they may not be enforced enough
to ensure quality.
- Inadequate
care causes parental stress. As a result work performance
suffers.
- Poor
arrangements often fall apart, resulting in absenteeism
or tardiness at work, irritating some employers.
Quality
Child Care
Quality
daycare promotes a child's full development through:
- a
happy and safe environment;
- opportunities
for active and learning play;
- nutritious
food.
Quality
daycare helps children develop:
- confidence;
- creativity;
- coordination;
- problem
solving skills;
- and
healthy relationships with others.
Most
of all, quality daycare has caregivers who relate
well to children and care about their well-being.
Locating
the 'right' child care setting takes time, effort
and careful planning on the part of the parent.
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©
Catherine M. Pruissen
Catherine M. Pruissen is the CEO of About Child Care
Consumer Services and developer of child care online.
She has published numerous child care related literature,
including Start and
Run a Profitable Home Day Care, The
Daycare Alternative, How to Find Good Child Care,
Caregiver Aids: Business
Forms for Caregivers and Parents, Income
Tax & Record Keeping for Child Care Providers,
and a host of workshops and workbooks. She was the editor
and publisher of the bi-monthly newsletter, Parent Care,
Your Child Care News-line. Catherine was also the coordinator
and workshop facilitator for The Child Care Information
Centre in Calgary, Alberta, and ran a successful dayhome
for eight years. |
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