Child Key Question

Question 1

What is the child key question?

Answer 1

What should parents consider before sending their child to daycare?

Question 2

Why do parents send their children to day care?

Answer 2

Need to go back to work after the birth of the child

Question 3

What can day care consist of?

Answer 3

Other family members looking after the child

Sending the child to a child minders

Sending them to a nursery

Question 4

What is an advantage of being looked after by a family member?

Answer 4

More 1:1 care

Child knows who the adult is

Question 5

What do child minders and nursery nurses have to be unlike family members?

Answer 5

Inspected and qualified

Question 6

What may parents worry about?

Answer 6

Quality of care

Whether they are doing the best for their child

Question 7

Why do parents need to consider staff to child ratio at day care?

Answer 7

The more staff there are to smaller numbers of children, the better the day care

Question 8

What do parents need to consider about the staff at day care?

Answer 8

Highly qualified staff

Low staff turnover

Positive interactions from staff with children

Question 9

What might children experience in full time day care?

Answer 9

Negative effects

Question 10

What are key workers in day care?

Answer 10

Provide temporary attachment for child when they are away from the primary caregiver

Question 11

How does Li support high quality day care?

Answer 11

Children improved academic, memory and language abilities

Question 12

What did Andersson find about children who went to high quality day care before the age of 1?

Answer 12

More socially and cognitively advanced by 8

Question 13

What did the EPPE project find about children who went to high quality day care?

Answer 13

Benefitted socially and cognitively

Question 14

What did Shea find about children who spent longer in nurseries?

Answer 14

More sociable

Amount of aggressive behaviour towards one another decreased

Question 15

What did Belsky and Rovine find about putting children into 20 hours of day care a week before 1?

Answer 15

Insecure avoidant attachment with mother

Question 16

What does day care lead to in children, according to the NICHD study?

Answer 16

Behavioural problems, especially if low quality day care

Question 17

What did Clarke-Stewart find about children who attended nurseries?

Answer 17

Coped better in social situations, able to interact with peers

Question 18

What type of correlation did DiLalla find between the amount of time spent in day care and pro-social behaviour?

Answer 18

Negative

Children who spent more time in day care were less cooperative and helpful in their dealings with other children

Question 19

What did Vandell find extensive child care since infancy is associated with?

Answer 19

Poorer academic and conduct report cards

Poorer peer relationships and emotional health

Question 20

What % of full time care infants were classified as insecure, according to Belsky and Rovine?

Answer 20

47%

Question 21

What are children with poor cognitive ability found to gain the most in?

Answer 21

Long term from day care

Earlier they started the better

Question 22

What did NICHD find about children, who’s mother lacked responsiveness?

Answer 22

Did less well at day care