Childcare's Positive Impact On Child Development

In today's society, more parents and families have begun relying on various types of child care arrangements in order to meet the challenging demands of having to balance work and family. Now that a high demand for child care is necessary parents are faced with the issue of seeking suitable care that conforms to their standards, state regulations, and qualifications required to ensure the safety and wellbeing of their children enrolled. This task could prove troublesome for most parents especially with recent Surveys of child care centers and family day care homes stating that the majority of child care was not of a high enough standard to have a positive impact on child development, and a disturbing fraction was of a level that could threaten

Group child care homes must be licensed, and have their licensed renewed every two years (Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, 2014). The staff to child ratios for child care centers differs by the age of the children hence from birth to one year is one adult to five children (1:5), one to two years 1:6, two to three years is 1:10, three to four years is 1:12, four to five years is 1:14, and five to seven years is 1:15 (Military One Source, 2014). The maximum groups sizes differ by age therefore from birth to one year the size is ten, one to two years twelve, two to three years twenty four; four to five years old is twenty eight; and five plus years old is thirty (Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services,

The director of the child care must be at least twenty one years old, have a GED or high school diploma, a master’s or bachelor’s degree in child developing field, some verifiable experience in an approved setting working with children, or other qualifications that can be found at the Kentucky family services website (Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, 2014). The teachers, assistants, and substitutes must be eighteen years of age with training in first aid, CPR, have orientation, background check, and a certain number of child development training