Daycare Center Effects

The Effects on Child Development Centers
Risk for respiratory infections and asthma of children.
In this article it states that children are more likely to develop respiratory infections and asthma. As stated in the article “As the exposure in daycares are different from homes, especially with regard to infectious agents, it is important to assess both the short- and long-term implications of daycare use on the health of children.” I currently work on an army instillation where we are required by law to send children home with any “abnormal” colds, rash, or any outbreak of any kind. I know that it is clear that children attending daycares are more likely to have respiratory tract infections
In my second article it was a study that was done on children who were provided different types of childcare. It was broken into groups of four. The first group was a daycare center, home-based, babysitter, or no daycare at all. The results were that children who didn’t receive any care scored low on socio-emotional and cognitive. Students who attended care score higher. I am not shocked at the results because working in the childcare field some label child development centers as an equal to a “baby-sitter/nanny”. Open hire we had to sign a paper stating that we would do age appropriate activities with the children, and create lesson plans based off of our
In a daycare center you are more likely to spend less money, however the caregiver like likely to be ratio based which means your child may not get the one on one attention that you would like. My center is a ratio based and we design activities for each child to get that one on one time with each caregiver. Home daycare I fine to be the cheapest but, there isn’t supervision with the caregivers. A stay at home parent is priceless, however looking at it long tern your child is being isolated and not developing social-emotional, playtime with others, and most of all can hinder you from your career