The Importance of Using Primary Daycare vs. In-Home Daycare
As a parent, you have a lot of responsibilities. You need to make sure that you’re providing healthy, nutritious meals, giving your children support, and doing whatever you can to aid their development. Unfortunately, it can be near impossible to take care of your children all day every day, especially in the fast-paced society we live in. Many parents have a job they need to do and if it were possible, they’d take their children, but it’s no possible. Unless your job offers on-site daycare, you’re going to have to choose between primary daycare and in-home daycare. If you’ve already started looking at your options, you know how difficult this decision can be. Since you never want to make a choice without understanding all of your choices, we want to help you by explaining the importance of using primary daycare vs. in-home daycare.
Understanding Your Childcare Options
Primary daycare is when parents drop their children off at an established daycare center. Oftentimes, the hours of the center vary depending on age group, parent need, and children. When you start looking for primary daycare options, there are a number of factors that you’ll want to take into consideration. First, you want to look at the teacher to child ratio. Younger children need more guidance while older children can be attended to by one adult in larger groups. If you find a primary daycare that only staffs one adult, it’s probably not a good option.
You’ll also want to look at the learning environment, leadership, turnover rate, quality of interaction, and cleanliness. Not all primary daycares are created equal and how your child forms emotional, mental, and physical connections can be highly impacted by their experiences as a young child.
In-home daycare is also known as family childcare and is fairly different than what you think in terms of traditional daycare. In-home daycare is usually when there are one or two caregivers looking after a group of children in the caregiver’s home. The children often range in age and while some parents find in-home daycare options with people they know and trust, caregivers in these settings require no formal training in early childhood education. There are plenty of benefits to in-home daycare centers, but it is a riskier option if you don’t already know a caregiver.
Differences Between In-Home Daycare vs. Primary Daycare
When it comes to childcare, you want to make the best choices for your children. While many in-home caregivers have the right intention, there’s no formal training in development. Again, a lot of caregivers take the time to gain a stronger understanding on how to help children, but it falls short of many primary daycare centers. In-home daycare is run out of someone’s full time home. Parents should be mindful of an in-home daycare’s facility, play space, and overall safety of the home. Primary daycare centers, on the other hand, often have an extremely meaningful learning environment that helps appeal to the developmental stages of children of all ages.
Another benefit of a daycare center as opposed to in-home daycare is the accountability of the caregivers. Daycare centers will have numerous teachers, members of the leadership team, and assistants there throughout the day to help monitor your children and hold the other teachers accountable. In-home daycare centers are often just one or two people and there are many opportunities for things to go wrong.
Daycare centers are cleaned and sanitized regularly while in-home daycare obviously takes place in someone’s home. While we’d hope that they cleaned and sanitized regularly, it’s hard to be sure. If you want more peace of mind, daycare centers like A Child’s Place at the Ranches are the best place for your child to grow, learn, interact, and develop.
Why Your Child Should be Enrolled at A Child’s Place
There are many factors you should consider when looking for a good quality daycare option for your child. A Child’s Place offers teacher to child ratios that exceed the State of Arizona Department of Health Services of Child Care Licensing so that your children are given the best opportunity to grow and develop while they’re away from home. Our strong leadership team means that turnover is low, so your child will work with the same teachers for years to come. Our teachers value their relationships with children and make sure that everyone feels welcome and at ease. To make sure that we’re keeping up with important hygienic requirements during COVID-19 and beyond, our daycare center is regularly cleaned and sanitized.
A Child’s Place is a premier daycare center that serves the Gilbert and Queen Creek areas. Our facility offers convenient pick-up and drop-off services and strives to ensure our students are excelling academically. If you’re looking for highly trained and experienced teachers, directors, and caregivers to take care of your child during the day, contact us today at A Child’s Place at the Ranches.
