Since the beginning of time, mothers have always cared for their children. At-home moms taught and raised their kids until they were old enough to live on their own. As millenniums passed, moms would teach their daughters the life of a woman, cooking and cleaning for the male members of the family. As the mid-1900s came, mothers stopped staying home and began to work outside the comforts of their houses. With no one to take care of the children, a new industry was formed: childcare centers and daycares. Children flooded these businesses when their parents were at work and stayed until one parent got off. Daycares made a mother’s life easier when she went to work, knowing her kids were cared for. Being a childcare director would be a needed …show more content…
The economy is very important to any business. When the economy is down, businesses have a hard time keeping their doors open. Parents might be out of work or do not have the 8 to 5 type of job (Daycare 1). Amy Phan writes, “Parents lost jobs or had reduced work hours and took children out of day care” (1). She explains that parents are finding child care too expensive to continue (2). Directors can introduce new services to offset the falling enrollment. Some centers are offering parents flexible and half-time care programs and are watching kids on a drop-in basis (Daycare 1). The daycare Martha & May responded to the declining enrollment by boosting up marketing and offering special prices (Phan 3). Although most daycares can handle the changes of the economy, some fall short and have to be closed down. Consequently, parents have to find alternative programs for their children. When the New Haven daycare closed down, parents say that the search for a new program was difficult, being turned down because of space issues by daycares the district directed them to (Chinapen 2). Directors have to be careful how they manage their business financials. They never know how bad a situation will get, so they must learn to improvise what they can to stay in
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In my opinion, day care workers have many challenges. The kids ranging from two to
There is a problem in Texas impacting children’s futures; many childcare centers and homes are not providing children with quality care. In an article about cost and quality in Texas childcare, child development experts Susan Eitel and Joyce Nuner quote a study stating “that [nationally] only 10% of infants and toddlers are in high quality [childcare] programs” (34). The term ratio describes the number of children one caregiver is watching. This number is one of the major factors in the quality of a childcare program. Organizations such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children know as NAEYC release recommendations regarding ratios and accredit programs based on their compliance. Childcare centers and homes must comply with certain minimum standards enforced by Texas regarding ratios; however, these standards often set the bar lower than recommendations made by these early childhood experts. The current standards in Texas do not ensure that all young children receive quality care; for this reason, the Texas Department of Family Protective Services should strengthen the minimum standards regarding ratios to better regulate the quality of care children receive.
The childcare industry has variables including childcare by a family member, a traditional caregiver or a day care center. It depends on a family’s situation as to which one benefits them most. The two types of childcare to be discussed are the traditional caregiver and a day care center. Parents must decide whether they want a one-on-one or a group setting for the care of their children.
Child care is a rewarding and yet demanding career. These demands come from an abundance of sources: consistent changes to rules and regulations, requests from parents, and the forever evolving needs of a child in your care. Not only should these demands help solidify you as a growing early childhood professional, there are also plenty of other demands that can significantly affect your career choice. These include educational levels, levels of hands-on training, personal interests, family obligations, values, abilities, and your individual professional priorities.
The implications of this devaluation of this care work, while the growing ideas about the “priceless child” and our investment in advancing our society through the next generation is a confusing juxtaposition. Systems of both work/organizations and domestic/private spheres have been mutually transformed and as women and men attempt to negotiate new forms of care arrangements, perhaps the time has come to reimagine our definition of work and our society’s investment in the act of care. More family friendly work policies, corporate training to address gender and motherhood penalties and a continual reassessment of our own perceptions of care will all be necessary to truly adapt our system to our new sociological ideals.
Parents are always questioning whether they would like to have any more children someday. One of the aspects parents think about in this decision is child care. Child care can be pricey and the quality of the child care is also something to think about as well. Parents want their child to grow up and become very successful in life. Choosing a daycare from infant on, is part of the process to becoming successful as they grow. For one to add on to the family they need to think about the quality of child care, the price of child care, and attention of care: how their child will be raised. High-quality child care should be provided at public expense to all working parents!
Childcare or “daycare” is one of the most commonly used resources among Americans in the United States. There are many options for childcare that parents could choose from. They have many choices for childcare, ranging from: in-home care, childcare facilities, after school or government-funded Head Start programs. . “Head Start is a federally funded governmental program with the explicit goal of preparing underprivileged children for primary education” (Conley). This program is another option for the pre-k program. The cost of childcare has risen dramatically over the past year, and no one really knows whom to blame for it. The government offers families subsidies for childcare, but that is only if your income is low. But, what about the hard working, middle class families, that are still struggling to pay the high cost of childcare without government assistant? How will they provide childcare for their kids?
Kotter’s first step is to establish a sense of urgency for the change. This will be done by presenting the current situation of the pre-school, the demand and needs of full time working parents, and the consequences which may occur if the change is not implemented. This presentation would include a snap shot of current revenue and expenses and the effect of increasing cost of operations, on the profit of the pre-school, and show that if the p...
How does the cost of child care influence the decisions of mothers with young children?
It’s been noted that recent studies specify that “more than half of all 3-5-year-old children in the United States attend child-care centers prior to kindergarten” and “Given these high usage rates, the quality of these early child-care experiences has become an important public policy issue” (Peisner-Feinberg 2001). It is believed that part of the issue is a result of parents not knowing what the primary purpose of daycare/child care facilities are and what high quality daycares consist of in considering a their child should attend.
Introduction I have chosen to do my case-study at a childcare center in Framingham. This center is owned by Staples Headquarters and run by childcare company Bright Horizons. They currently have 196 children enrolled which includes the following programs of Infants, Toddlers, Preschool, Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten.
This is a realistic example of how the financial obstacles facing young families these days result in the use of non-parental child care. Many families today are faced with financial burdens, forcing them to utilize day care services for their children so that both parents can work. This paper will discuss three types of non-parental child care including center-based care, in-home care, and family day care. Furthermore, in an attempt to understand the effects of day care on children, this paper will evaluate the psychological, social, and cognitive impacts on child development as a result of day care. After reading this paper you will recognize that all types of child care can be effective as long as the provider is a quality caregiver.
Should the government provide day care centers for working parents? Parents who are working hard to provide there family a good meal and to pay the rent, the least the government can do for these people is to help out a parent by providing free child care centers for working parents right? Guess what, the republicans and the democrats from congress have been doing something about it. There have at least been 70 bills that have been introduced by both of them, but it seems like the house of representative keep turning down every single one of them. (Noble) Government should pass a law that provides free daycare centers because that would be one thing less that the working parents would have to worry about. Free daycare centers will help a parent a lot by not having to worry about paying, they could go and by more groceries more often or they could save that money for their child’s education. It doesn’t seem like much but if the government provides daycares centers it would really help out a working parent, and they would appreciate it.
I am a professional Daycare Director with over 7 years experience in handling the day to day functions of a childcare centre. My unique professional experience stems from years of providing excellent customer service, creative problem solving, building and maintaining a strong loving team for the well-being of