daycare centers – How To Find Child Day Care
26 Apr 2010
How To Find Child Day Care
It’s a daunting question for many parents, new and old. Some of you are first timers with a brand new baby in your home and others of you have several children. All in all you have decided it’s time to go back to work and find a child daycare that meets your beliefs.
But the question is what are your beliefs on what a good child daycare should be?
This is something for you to definitely think about, for you to find a good child daycare you need to determine what kind of environment you most definitely feel comfortable in.
Here are some of the questions you should be asking yourself before you venture out in looking for a child daycare center.
1. Do you feel more comfortable with a family child daycare or a group child daycare? Both are very different. A family child daycare is usually run by one person who is the owner, and usually out of someone’s home. A group child daycare is usually out of a commercial building with staff on hand. Children are divided according to ages. For example all babies are in one room, all toddlers in another, and so on.You get the idea. Family child daycares usually mix all ages together, but family daycares are small- only about 8 children per center. Group centers can be very large. Perhaps up to 250 children in one center.
2.What is the policy of the child care center? Be sure to ask what there rules are regarding sickness, time off, vacations, paid holidays, emergencies. Make sure that you are clear on what these policies are; be clear on what the child daycare center is expecting of you and vice versa. Many times this is how parents and child daycare centers get into disagreement. Not over the actual childcare provided but over the policies established by the center.
3. Do you trust the provider who will be taking care of your child? If you don’t trust the provider chances are you will leave the center. Also understand that child daycares aren’t perfect. Anytime you leave your home you take the risk of error. I’m not trying to protect the child daycare center, but people do make errors and understand that children will be children. They will argue, get dirty, hit their friends and so one but realize that they are learning and this is their nature at such a young age.
I think that the above questions are so impo
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rtant in asking yourself. Realize that choosing a child daycare center is an important decision. Children need consistency and stable loving relationships- this is so much more important then fancy toys and big buildings.
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If you are going to be away all day, dog daycare may be just the thing for you. In a dog day care center, your dog will get to enjoy fun play sessions with other dogs as well as human company. This will help to socialize him and increase his confidence when facing new people and new dogs. It will also provide him with good mental and physical stimulation so that he will be calm and happy to sit by your feet when you get home.
Leaving your dog home alone, all day, may cause him to get destructive, because he has too much energy, and bring about separation anxiety issues. Note that dog daycare centers are very different from the usual boarding kennels because they have many playgroups during the day where your dog may interact with other dogs. They also have nicer facilities, are commonly no-cage, and have trained staff to supervise your dog.
Before putting your dog in daycare, consider the following:
- Temperament of your dog. Dogs that are most appropriate for daycare have easy-going, submissive personalities. My Siberian Husky is a very relaxed, easy-going dog, and she pretty much gets along with all the dogs and all the people she meets. We send her to daycare quite often. She enjoys herself and comes home happy and tired. My male Shiba Inu, is a stress puppy. He likes routine and becomes stressed whenever there is any change, and whenever we are not around. I have tried putting him in two different daycare centers (one afternoon each) and he totally hated it. He came back very depressed and started whining in the car for several days thereafter. His temperament makes him unsuited for daycare.
- Dog daycare facilities.
- Make sure they have a competent and trained staff. Make sure that all handlers use positive reinforcement techniques, i.e. no hitting, no slapping, and no pinning your dog to the ground (alpha rolls). Rather than helping to socialize your dog, these bad experiences may make him fearful and aggressive towards other dogs and humans.
- Make sure the floors have a nice no-skid rubber surface and not concrete. If dogs run on concrete too much, it is bad for their pads.
- Make sure they are a no-cage facility. The dog daycare facility should have nice rooms with beds or a soft surface for the dogs to rest. The entire facility should be well ventilated so that it will be comfortable for your dog. It should have ceiling fans or air conditioning for the summer, and heating for the winter.
- Make sure that they group the dogs properly during play time (e.g., small vs big, active vs non-active). Make sure that the play-group assigned to each handler is not too large. This ensures that the dogs will be well supervised and reduces the probability of fights and bullying behavior during play.
- Kennel Cough. Make sure your dog is vaccinated for kennel cough. Both my Shiba and Siberian have gotten kennel cough just from staying overnight at an emergency room. Even though they try to be careful in these daycare centers, kennel cough is highly contagious. Daycare centers have a large number of dogs each day, that interact closely with each other, so there is a very high likelihood of getting infected.
A well-managed daycare center is a great place for socializing your dog to other dogs. Unlike dog parks, daycare play sessions are well supervised, by trained staff. The play groups are not too big, and they try to group dogs with similar size, and energy levels together, so they will get along.
Daycare centers usually have a meet-up interview, in the beginning. They will only accept social dogs that will fit-in to their facility. Many of the dogs there are also regulars and have had good practice on dog socialization manners.
On the downside, daycare costs can be somewhat high. There is also a high likelihood that your dog may get sick. While daycare centers do require dogs to be properly immunized, it is difficult to detect and separate those that may have the cold or flu. Unless your dog has a strong immunity system, he may get sick more frequently from his exposure to large numbers of dogs.
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