Child Key Question Flashcards
What is the child key question?
What should parents consider before sending their child to daycare?
Why do parents send their children to day care?
Need to go back to work after the birth of the child
What can day care consist of?
Other family members looking after the child
Sending the child to a child minders
Sending them to a nursery
What is an advantage of being looked after by a family member?
More 1:1 care
Child knows who the adult is
What do child minders and nursery nurses have to be unlike family members?
Inspected and qualified
What may parents worry about?
Quality of care
Whether they are doing the best for their child
Why do parents need to consider staff to child ratio at day care?
The more staff there are to smaller numbers of children, the better the day care
What do parents need to consider about the staff at day care?
Highly qualified staff
Low staff turnover
Positive interactions from staff with children
What might children experience in full time day care?
Negative effects
What are key workers in day care?
Provide temporary attachment for child when they are away from the primary caregiver
How does Li support high quality day care?
Children improved academic, memory and language abilities
What did Andersson find about children who went to high quality day care before the age of 1?
More socially and cognitively advanced by 8
What did the EPPE project find about children who went to high quality day care?
Benefitted socially and cognitively
What did Shea find about children who spent longer in nurseries?
More sociable
Amount of aggressive behaviour towards one another decreased
What did Belsky and Rovine find about putting children into 20 hours of day care a week before 1?
Insecure avoidant attachment with mother
What does day care lead to in children, according to the NICHD study?
Behavioural problems, especially if low quality day care
What did Clarke-Stewart find about children who attended nurseries?
Coped better in social situations, able to interact with peers
What type of correlation did DiLalla find between the amount of time spent in day care and pro-social behaviour?
Negative
Children who spent more time in day care were less cooperative and helpful in their dealings with other children
What did Vandell find extensive child care since infancy is associated with?
Poorer academic and conduct report cards
Poorer peer relationships and emotional health
What % of full time care infants were classified as insecure, according to Belsky and Rovine?
47%
What are children with poor cognitive ability found to gain the most in?
Long term from day care
Earlier they started the better
What did NICHD find about children, who’s mother lacked responsiveness?
Did less well at day care
