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Ecology of Non parental Child Care (When Mom Can't Be Home (Selecting…
Ecology of Non parental Child Care
Protect Family Time - Church Leaders
Gordon B. Hinckley
Dedicate one evening a week
Teach, read the scriptures, share talents, and discuss family matters
Traditional program
Any night that works for your family
L. Tom Perry
We are in an information revolution
Becoming addicted to temporal things - technology
"Time-out"
Family time - first priority
Neal A. Maxwell
Becoming too busy
Children - "noble birth right" to teach them
Richard G. Scott - 2001
His plan of happiness
Holy Spirit
Peace & Quiet
Ponder, direction, and course of life
Strive to become the ideal family
Based on Proclamation on the family
Dallin H. Oaks
Television vs communicating
overnourished on entertainment and undernourished on the bread of life
Eternal impacts
Mosiah 4:27
1 - Seek to understand & secure relationship with God
2 - Understand & secure relationships with family members
Richard G. Scott - 2004
Quiet prompting of the Spirit
Inspirations comes in packets
Appreciate
Give thanks
Treasure it
Apply it
Overscheduled Families
What is our final goal in life?
What is well-rounded?
Structure throughout days
Wasting time?
When Mom Can't Be Home
Day care - necessity
Needs inspired guidance
Early years - Emotional & intellectual potential is formed
Also spiritual development
When time is limited with one another, spend quality time together
Childs needs should come first
Consider age, needs, & special circumstances
Home care - relative or responsible adult
Home child center - several different children in a home
Child center - facilities, structured environment, more of a school than home
Industry or university care - ability to spend breaks & lunch with them
Neighborhood babysitting - take turns
Alternate work schedules - each parent works at different times to limit childs time with adults other than parents
Selecting a day-care
Quality of care
Curriculum
Personnel
Safety
Cleanliness
Meals, Snacks
Licensing
Cost
Child should always feel secure, valued, and loved
Look at eternal perspective when deciding what is good for your child
Stop baby-sitting friends' kids
Illegal day care center
Period of 28 days a year, when parent is not at home
Even if they are not being paid
Response from DHS is to buy an umbrella for weather
Determine if it is safe for the kids
Injuries
Law needs clarification
A Parent's Priority
Income vs parent being at home with children
Both parents share responsibility in caring for their children
Mutual decision
Four-thirds Solution
Works 2/3 of the time, each devotes 1/3 of time to children
Children then receive 2/3rds of parent time
Many different arrangements can be made for each family
Single parents may struggle with this, but should turn to relatives for help, if available
Doing your best is sufficient
Every little bit helps
Children can sense it
Children make good helpers for chores around the house
What is your highest priority?
Family time
Technology
Money
Parents are spending too much time away from children
Create goals to strive for
Children needs lots of nurturing interaction
TIME - regular, substantial chunks of it
Guilt can be a guiding force in our lives
Children need & deserve sacrifices
Set aside unstructured time with you and child to do what they want to do
Build warm & trusting relationships
Asking TOO Much of Day Care
Children need high quality child care, but who can afford it?
Levels of quality in parental care
Resources available
Environment provided
Four levels of care out of the home
Highly characteristic
Somewhat characteristic
Somewhat uncharacterisitc
Very uncharacteristic
Welfare system - entered centers of even lower quality
Are children development important? Our future generation
Quality counts, no matter what the setting
High quality shows better measurements in cognitive & social skills
Interactions
Too often day cares don't have enough adults to care for infants and children, to provide the type of interaction needed
Children in an enriched program had brain-wave activity associated with greater mental maturity and alertness
Number of hours spent at a day care can influence children behaviors
Day care assumes child receives necessary interaction at home before and after
Poor parenting can influence this
Security lost
Full day in day care is associated with signs of stress, particularly, 18-24 months
Social & political Context
Fear of voicing opinions to be shot down
Affects fathers as much as mothers
1/2 of nations populations is being cared for by a non family member (infants, toddlers, & preschoolers)
Child care providers are underpaid for the important work they do
Stressful conditions
Trusting them with our children
Group day care has been shown to have a positive effect of motor and cognitive skills
Relative care has been shown to be beneficial
Research has limitations
Needs major rethinking
Macrosystem Influences
Social Service
Neglected children
Parent employability
Intervention
Readiness
Chronosystem Influences
Separation from mother
Child-care setting
Ecological systems
Psychological Development
Spitz's Study
Bowlby's Study
Skeel's Study
Contemporary Studies
Mesosystem influences
School & Community Involvement
Government & Business involvement
Socialization Outcomes
Curriculum - goals & objections of an educational program
Direct instruction
Montessori
Developmental Interaction
Tools of the Mind
Disiplined
Synthesizing
Creating
Respectful
Ethical
Cognitively Oriented Curriculum - blend the virtues of purposeful teaching with open-ended, child-initiated activities
Piaget
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal operational
Developmentally Appropriate Caregiving
Maturation - biological process of aging
Collaborative caregiving
Child Protection
Should be protected from all harm and maltreatment
Caregivers with appropriate training are able to recognize deviations
Family and/or government
Children may not understand what is happening or become distrustful of all adults