When it's time to go back to your job, one of the biggest challenges is to
find high quality child care.
Not exact matches
«We know that lots of families are not getting the help they need to
find affordable,
high -
quality child care.»
A new study by the National Institute for
Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
finds that
children who were
cared for in
high -
quality childcare settings outside the home have better vocabulary skills at fifth grade than
children who received early
care in lower -
quality settings.
It has been almost 30 years since the National Council of Jewish Women released «Windows on Day
Care,» alerting the country to a looming child - care crunch that would force working parents to struggle to find care that was affordable, much less high - qual
Care,» alerting the country to a looming
child -
care crunch that would force working parents to struggle to find care that was affordable, much less high - qual
care crunch that would force working parents to struggle to
find care that was affordable, much less high - qual
care that was affordable, much less
high -
quality.
To
find high -
quality child care spaces, you'll need to conduct your own research.
A: The Ontario Coalition for Better
Child Care (OCBCC), founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible, high quality, not - for - profit, regulated child care in the province of Ont
Child Care (OCBCC), founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible, high quality, not - for - profit, regulated child care in the province of Onta
Care (OCBCC),
founded in 1981, advocates for universally accessible,
high quality, not - for - profit, regulated
child care in the province of Ont
child care in the province of Onta
care in the province of Ontario.
Despite contradictory earlier
findings about the effects of
child care on cognitive and linguistic development, more recent research has consistently documented the enduring and positive effects of
high -
quality child care.
Children who experience
higher quality early
child care characterized by better relationships with their
care providers have subsequently better relationships with their teachers in school.30 Positive teacher -
child relationships appear to persist over time, as shown by links
found between the
quality and style of early relationships with
child care providers, subsequent relationships with
care providers and preschool teachers, and relationships with kindergarten teachers.
There also is sufficient research to conclude that
child care does not pose a serious threat to
children's relationships with parents or to
children's emotional development.1, 2,9 A recent study of preschool centres in England produced somewhat similar results:
children who started earlier had somewhat
higher levels of anti-social or worried behaviour — an effect reduced but not eliminated by
higher quality.17 In the same study, an earlier start in
care was not
found to affect other social measures (independence and concentration, cooperation and conformity, and peer sociability), but was
found to improve cognitive development.
Tuition rates rival or exceed the cost of college, and
high -
quality child care spaces are so limited that many families
find themselves in «
child care deserts.»
The Better Beginnings website also has resources to help parents understand the importance of
high -
quality child care and how best to
find it in their communities.
The researchers
found that, in Massachusetts, families receiving
child care subsidies report greater access to
child care, more affordable
child care, and
higher quality child care, than do similar families not receiving subsidies.
These
findings will inform a report developed later this year by the state's Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing
High -
Quality, Affordable
Child Care.
Their recent report Stalled at the Start
finds that nearly half of the state's infants and toddlers likely to need
child care lack access to regulated
care and the majority (79 %) lack access to
high -
quality programs.
For example, new longitudinal research
found that
children who received
high quality early
care and education services are significantly more likely to be employed full - time and have more financial and personal assets by their early forties.
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quality, affordable
child care and resources for families and
care givers.
Variations in the
quality of maternal caregiving shape the neurobiological systems that regulate stress reactions.18
Higher sensitivity was
found in mothers and fathers who valued attachments based on their recollections of being accepted themselves and sensitively
cared for as a
child.27 Likewise, in close relationships with non-parental caregivers or mentors in which the
child feels safe and secure, the
child will make ample use of joint attention to social and non-social objects and events.
Young
children in
high quality care settings experience support that they may not
find elsewhere, and this might be developmentally most important when infants and young
children experience maternal insensitivity and family stress.
In addition, there is evidence in the
findings of the NICHD SECCYD11 that
child care had a moderating effect on the association between maternal sensitivity and the security of attachment:
children in lower -
quality child care were more strongly affected by the
quality of maternal responsiveness than were
children in
higher -
quality care settings.
Ponciano (2013;
highest quality score 86 %),
found a significant correlation between age and security of attachment in a sample of Foster
Care children aged 9 — 39 months, with younger
children having
higher security scores (Ponciano 2010).