Friday, April 8, 2016

The Basics Of Fishing Creek Childcare

By Susan Butler


Childcare also goes by many other names including child minding, child care, preschool, and daycare. Child care is the process of offering care and supervision to children. This process starts at the age of 1.5 months and may end when one reaches 13 years. Examples of care providers include babysitters, daycare centers, au pair, and nannies. In Fishing Creek childcare is a huge industry with many business and hundreds of workers.

Child minding may sound like a shallow term but it covers a wide range of contexts, activities, cultural conventions, institutions, and social conventions. There are a few types of child care facilities in existence including family child care/licensed home day care, in-home care, center-based care, and informal care. Responsibility for children is traditionally taken up by legal guardians or parents.

In western societies, caring for children by working parents can take on two main courses. First, the child may be left in center-based care and secondly, they can be left in home-based care. In some cases, there may be an extended family willing to offer help. The last options which are exploited only in worst-case scenarios are foster homes and orphanages.

Licensed home day care also goes by the name family child care. It refers to the kind of care that is provided in the home of the caregiver. Usually the caregiver is licensed and regulated. Family child cares have a small size of children to care for and offer similar security as day care centers. However, they offer the benefits of lower costs, ease of accessibility, cultural compatibility, and flexibility in hours.

The kind of care provided by home-based care providers is very individualized. Therefore, these providers offer the best option to meet the needs of working parents. This option of child care is the cheapest and most affordable to many. In comparison to commercial care centers, these facilities offer more child-provider interaction because the number of children is normally low.

In-home care is another kind of child minding. In this case, friends, nannies, au pairs, or family members offer the necessary care. The caregiver may provide care in the house of the child or at their own place. Therefore, there is limited exposure to diseases and children from outside. As a result of close interaction between the caregiver and the child, the two develop and very close bond.

In-home care is not regulated by the government, which implies that the caregiver does not have to be licensed. Also, there are no background checks run on the caregiver to ascertain their suitability for the job. As such, it is upon the parent of the child to select the right caregiver. The cost per child of this form of care is the highest.

One can hire a caregiver from any of the many nanny or au pair services in Fishing Creek. The nannies have training in childcare. As such, they ensure that the child gets a safe and stimulating environment they need to grow well. Nannies also do several house chores such as cleaning, doing laundry, cooking, and shopping.




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