Benefits of Home Childcare
What are the Benefits of Choosing In Home Care?
A family childcare provider continues the parents role of caregiver, nurturer, comforter, and first teacher. The provider is not just a babysitter. A sitter comes into your home for a few hours. You tell her what you want for your child. A family childcare provider welcomes you and your child into her home. She plans meals, schedules, and safety. She organizes the children's activities. She will appreciate your family values and child rearing practices. She is a professional and you can rely on her judgment. Working together as a team, you will provide the best for your child. The provider is not a substitute for you. You are the most important person in your child's life and the providers respect that.
Here
are just a few of the advantages of home care:
Your
child receives individual attention.
There
is structure with more flexibility than in a center.
There
is less illness because there are fewer people in and out, which means
fewer
germs are spread to your child.
Your
child is cared for and taught by a trained childcare professional who is usually
a
mother as well.
Children
have the opportunity to play and learn with others in a much smaller group
than in
a center.
Your
child has the same caregiver all day, ever day. And there is one person who
knows exactly what your child has done, eaten, etc. throughout the day.
A
quality childcare home may cost more than some daycare centers, but the lower
number
of children, quality of care and consistency of the caregiver makes the
difference in
price more understandable.
The
ratio of children per caregiver is much lower in a childcare home than at a
daycare
center. For example a daycare center may have 11 two year olds with
one
caregiver or 22 two year olds with two caregivers; A registered childcare
home is
allowed a maximum of 12 children and a least 6 of those must be
school
age.
You
and your child are treated as part of the family in a childcare home rather
than being just another number in a large center.