effects of day care on child's development
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Effects of Day Care On Child's Development
As per National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) studies over 70% of children are in child care arrangement because their both parents are working.
Sometimes, parents are advised by a child specialist to enroll their child in a day care because that will promote the child's
development.
Let's learn more about the effects.
Daycare has both positive and some negative effects.
The effects vary and depend on factors like :- Quality of care :- Type of care
:- Amount spent on it and :- Parenting.....
What are the pros and cons of day care?
The positive developments are :-
Memory :-
Day care children show early advantage than home care in terms of memory development..
The day care children tends to score higher on different standardized school tests than home care children.
Cognitive and language development:-
The day care children develop higher cognitive functioning and a larger vocabulary skill, which enhances their language development.
The children who get proper nurturing day care environment usually achieve good scores in class.
Development of social skills :-
Early positive effect of attending day care helps the child to develop high quality care on cooperation
:- assertion :- responsibility
:- self control etc..
The children of day care develop bonding so easily with adults and peers than child who did not attend day care.
The long term positive effect of social development also indirectly enhances the child's dynamic growth process in
later age.
What are the negative outcomes of day care?
Behavioral ups & downs :-
Sometimes, the day care is also responsible for the development of negative behavioral issues in children.
According to the NIH study, the child who spends ten or more hours in a week in day care tended to be more argumentative, disobedient and disruptive in class.
The children who spent more time in day care always have conflicts with parents and teacher in later age.
These children also show a habit of not doing work independently
:- Don't use time wisely :- Don't complete their work promptly etc..
These children also show an attachment insecurity with parents and in later stage they experience social
withdrawal, depression, and anxiety etc.
But except all these things, the child development is all depends on caregivers of the day care center. So parents should select a
day care very cautiously.
The following are the qualities one should look into while choosing a day care center.
:-The care givers should show and possess positive attitude. :- Responds quickly to children queries
:- Encourages and advances the children behavior :- Discourages negative interactions etc.
Tips :- The children's outcome will be better if their parents are responsive, sensitive, attentive and deliver a
positive stimulation while interacting with them.
