The Impact Of Daycare Flashcards

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State the arguments for daycare

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⚫️ high quality daycare is stimulating
➡️run by well trained, motivated practitioners
➡️activities not available at home
➡️opportunity to interact with other children

⚫️quality daycare 
➡️has positive effect on social development
➡️negative effects of daycare
➡️due to poor quality 
➡️good quality associated with
➡️sensitivity of carers to children
⚫️mothers who work
➡experience lower levels of 
➡️stress, frustration and depression 
➡️interact with children in a more positive healthy way
➡️making them better mothers
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What does day care mean

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⚫temporary care of children
➡️outside the home
➡️provided by non-family members
➡️like in nurseries 
➡️excludes institutional care
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State the arguments against daycare

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⚫️separation from primary caregiver
➡️causes deprivation
➡️leading to short-term and long term damage to social development

⚫️daycare is inferior to home care
➡️home care offers a more loving stimulating environment

⚫️daycare brings negative outcome
➡️research shows
➡️children raised at home
➡️causes superior social development

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What does social development mean

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➡️Relationships with others
➡️and social skills
➡️necessary within a cultural group

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What are the two areas of interest, study of daycare has been an effect on

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⚫️children aggression level

⚫️development of peer relationship

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Give a negative research for effects of daycare on aggression

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⚫️durkin reported
➡️preschoolers in daycare since infancy
➡️aggressive, negative social adjustment, hyperactivity and anxiety
➡️compared with those starting daycare later
➡️suggest age child enter daycare is important

⚫️A NICHD found
➡️children averaging 30 hours or more childcare
➡️had more behavioural problems, like aggression
➡️suggest amount of time in daycare related to aggression levels

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Give a positive research of effects of daycare on aggression

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⚫️hagekull& bohlin
➡️disadvantage Swedish boys 
➡received high-quality daycare
➡️reduced aggressiveness 
➡️suggest quality if daycare is important to lower aggression level

⚫️A NICHD
➡️observation made by teachers and carers
➡️children with high level of daycare
➡️lower level of aggression
➡️suggest daycare has positive effect in aggression

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Give an evaluation of the effects of daycare on aggression

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⚫️high level of aggression because
➡️greater social interaction
➡️more opportunity for aggression to arise

⚫️family features
➡️like quality of home environment, parental attitude at maternal sensitivity
➡️better indicators of aggression levels and social development
➡️than quantity of daycare received
➡️suggest quantity of daycare not most important factor on determining aggressiveness

⚫️aggressive children most likely to put into daycare
➡️parents need a break
➡️suggest factors other than daycare
➡️responsible for high levels of aggression in daycare children

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Give a research for negative effects of daycare on peer relations

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⚫️guralnick et al
➡️children with disabilities
➡️like limited communication and social skills
➡️interact with peers less often
➡️less well accepted
➡️suggests daycare not beneficial for all children for developing peer relations

⚫vliestra 
➡️children attending half daycare
➡️better peer relations
➡️than those attending full day care
➡️suggest amount of daycare important in determining the quality of peer relationships
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Give a research for positive effects of daycare on peer relations

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⚫️Clarke-stewart et al
➡️children with high ability to negotiate with peers
➡received group based daycare
➡️rather than home care
➡️suggesting daycare encourages good peer relations

⚫️hartup&moore
➡️daycare allows more interaction with peers
➡️teaches the rule of social interaction
➡️helps resolve disputes with peers
➡️suggest daycare useful to achieve positive peer relationships

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Give an evaluation of the effects of daycare on peer relations

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⚫️research suggest daycare allows greater opportunities
➡️for social contact and development of social skills
➡️leading to positive peer relationships

⚫️can harm the development of peer relations
➡️in children with low social skills
➡️lead to them being bullied by others

⚫️development of good peer relations
➡️depends on high quality day care
➡️provided by trained carers and low-staff children ratios
➡️suggest too much daycare can negatively impact in peer relationship

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Give an evaluation of daycare research

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⚫️high quality daycare, like in Sweden
➡️has positive developmental outcomes
➡️only wealthy countries can afford such daycare
➡️most children have lower quality care 
➡️with negative outcomes

⚫️different methods of rating behaviour
➡️like teacher ratings rather than parental ratings
➡️leads to differences in findings
➡️suggest differences in research findings, due to methodology

⚫️other variables may be involved
➡️working mums being stressed
➡️leads to an increase of aggressiveness in children

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