daycare
What are the effects of day-care on child development?
Summarising the articles
Article on ‘Study shows positive effects of formal child care in improving language skills’
The article states that according to research there were fewer children who attend day care that were late talkers compared to children who were looked after at home by a parent.
There were more children from the age of 1.5 years to 3 years who could not talk properly that were looked after in informal care eg. Home, than those looked after in formal day care. The article also stated that there were fewer children who were late talkers that attended full time day care than those who only attended day care part-time.
Research was carried out by Norwegian Institute of Public Health of nearly 20,000 children.
Day nursery may harm under-3s, say child experts
Article states whether children under three should be cared for by anyone other than trusted and familiar figures in their lives. Article states that Consistent, continuous care by a trusted figure is the key to providing a secure and nurturing environment for very young children and that daycare does not allow a child to develop emotionally and daycares to not respond to the emotional needs of children. Research carried out by psychologist and author Steve Biddulph, Sir Richard Bowlby, the president of the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and Prof Allan Schore, states that there should be more to done to help mothers or familiar figure look after their children at home.
a) Did your method of gathering information involve primary or secondary data? Explain how these data were used. The information gathered to draw up conclusion on whether effects of child care were secondary data collected from the news websites on the internet. This meant that data that was gathered by me was data someone else collected for a different purpose and performs their own analyses of the data they collected. The data I collected
Summarising the articles
Article on ‘Study shows positive effects of formal child care in improving language skills’
The article states that according to research there were fewer children who attend day care that were late talkers compared to children who were looked after at home by a parent.
There were more children from the age of 1.5 years to 3 years who could not talk properly that were looked after in informal care eg. Home, than those looked after in formal day care. The article also stated that there were fewer children who were late talkers that attended full time day care than those who only attended day care part-time.
Research was carried out by Norwegian Institute of Public Health of nearly 20,000 children.
Day nursery may harm under-3s, say child experts
Article states whether children under three should be cared for by anyone other than trusted and familiar figures in their lives. Article states that Consistent, continuous care by a trusted figure is the key to providing a secure and nurturing environment for very young children and that daycare does not allow a child to develop emotionally and daycares to not respond to the emotional needs of children. Research carried out by psychologist and author Steve Biddulph, Sir Richard Bowlby, the president of the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and Prof Allan Schore, states that there should be more to done to help mothers or familiar figure look after their children at home.
a) Did your method of gathering information involve primary or secondary data? Explain how these data were used. The information gathered to draw up conclusion on whether effects of child care were secondary data collected from the news websites on the internet. This meant that data that was gathered by me was data someone else collected for a different purpose and performs their own analyses of the data they collected. The data I collected