Essays on Childcare

Contrasting Two Cultures with a Model of Culture

The model of culture to be used in this part of the paper is Professor Geert Hofstede’s Model of National Cultures. Professor Hofstede is famous for his study wherein he looked at how values in the workplace are influenced by particular cultures. He was a consultant working with IBM in the 1970s and 1980s, and thus he was able to observe various workplace cultures around the world (Geert Hofstede: National Culture). Originally, he came up with four dimensions of culture along which behaviors could be linked and thereafter analyzed. The original dimensions are Individualism-Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Power Distance ( ...

Abstract

Sustainability in the early education in childhood is a necessary part of the curriculum which should be part of the service setting. Creation of natural environments and offering natural materials in a single way to ensure sustainability takes place. Sustainability can be termed as the “environment education,” is a method of learning about the environment and the way the natural system operates (Hessle, 2014). It is all that is required for the wellbeing and survival of the people which relates directly to the natural environment. Sustainable education for the children would be various practices such as encouraging the children ...

Literature Review

In education communication is essential. The school, the teachers, and the parents must communicate with one another to educate their students. When there is a lack of communication the students suffer. The modes of communication are evolving every day, because of the advances made in technology. School systems needs to transition into using some of these modern forms of communications to better reach the diverse population of parents present within a school. Connecting with parents using multiple methods could increase parent involvement as well as student achievement. Different styles of communication could be used for different reasons. It must ...

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Introduction According to the Associated Press, there were more poor people residing in the state of Washington in 2013 compared to the previous year. This was the case despite the poverty levels remaining steady “across the nation” (Le par. 1). In addition, the United Way has recently revealed in a “comprehensive report” that “1 in 3” Washington households “struggle financially” (Hobbs pars. 1, 22). The experts have arrived at their own conclusions as to why that it is currently the case in the state. However, even though the cause of poverty in Washington State has ...

A single parent as per Hetherington (2014), is an uncoupled person who spends most of the days’ responsibilities raising a child or children. The term can also be used to refer to a person who is unmarried, widowed or divorced but has a dependent child or children. The primary caregiver of a single family structure is the mother. Single parent structures are as a result of calamities such as death of the partner, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy. Currently in the United states single dads make approximately of 6% of the entire households while single mums make up approximately a ...

Integrated Literature Review

Directorship on Child Care Introduction Childhood is an important stage of human development in which proper guidance are necessary in order to ensure that a child’s welfare is being addressed. In many ways, the work of a program director encompasses a difficult role in terms of regulations and program strategies that aims to have a positive influence towards child development. In this discussion, the role of a director in child development will be explored by examining literatures that articulates the topic on teacher’s needs, ethics, leadership, roles and responsibilities, and best practices. Directors are institutional leaders that ...

Introduction

The effects of child abuse are risk factors for later lifespan development. There are public policies in force about this issue. There are extreme risk factors associated with child abuse that may not be prevented by public policy. Both internalized and externalized problems that can result from child abuse often lead to overall adjustment issues (Leeson, 2011). Victims of child abuse often suffer an inability to accept their abuse, as well as having difficulties with transitioning through other life experience (Leeson, 2011). Intervention can also be harmful to child development. Ill-treatment and neglect is a public issue because children ...

Classroom Observation Tool

CHS111 Foundations in Early Childhood Education PRINT THIS FORM to use for your classroom observation. Once completed, print this form again and type the information you recorded into the form. The completed, typed form will be submitted in Unit 4.

Observer’s Name: _____Insert your name________________________________________

Time(s): Start: ___9:00am___________ End: _____11:30am___________ CENTER/SCHOOL INFORMATION Program Type (Place “X” for all that apply): public __ private _×_ non-profit __faith-based __ corporate __ other: _____________________

Observed Classroom

Teaching Staff Total: ___21___Teachers __10___ Assistant Teachers ____9__Other: _____2___________ Observed: ___16___Teachers __8___ Assistant Teachers __7____Other: ______1__________ Child Enrollment Total Enrolled: ___141_ Infants _18_____ Toddlers __24___ Preschoolers __45___ Kindergartners __54___ ...

Introduction

In the lion share of cases the life perception, its values and strategy are determined for individual in one’s parent’s families. Thus, it is critically important to maximize the probability for each particular child for living with one’s parents, and address the existing pitfalls of the institute of family with corresponding policies. This paper would be dedicated to representation of the core aspects of the family policy -as an intentional course of action for minimization of the need of engagement the child protective services into the process of assistance of the children, who fall into the ...

Quantitative study

Campbell, D. A., Lake, M. F., Falk, M., & Backstrand, J. R. (2006). A randomized control trial of continuous support in labor by a lay doula. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 35(4), 456-464.

Database from which the article was retrieved

Wiley Online Library Study Design The study utilized a randomized controlled design whereby the participants were randomized into either the control (no intervention) group or the experimental (doula group). As such, the design utilized was suitable and consistent with the study since it enabled the investigator to effectively compare the outcome measures of the two group and come up with significant inferences (Polit & Beck, 2013). ...

Newsletter

RAINBOW DAYCARE NEWSLETTER Summer 2016 Inside this Issue

Sources of Stress in Children

Stress and Childcare Providers A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF RAINBOW DAY CARE Welcome to the Summer Issue of the RAINBOW DAYCARE NEWSLETTER. As all of you know, the primary purpose of this newsletter is to provide practical and useful information for parents, childcare providers and teachers about relevant topics on child development. This issue is devoted to children and stress. We hope you will find the feature stories useful and practical. Sources of Stress in Children Contrary to popular belief that children live a worry-free existence unlike adults who have to worry ...

Co-operative

A co-operative refers the autonomous association of individuals joined voluntary to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs as well as ambitions with the help of joined and democratically controlled organization. The co-operatives in not only developed, but also in developing countries increase the income and employment opportunities for its members. According to United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Annan, the movement of the cooperative is the biggest organized segment of civil society that plays key role in fulfilling the human needs. These organizations offer facilities like health, housing and banking. In addition, they are involved in promoting education ...

Policy Number: 1.0

Section: Poisons _________________________________________________________________________ Policy: The teacher will keep hazardous substances out of the children’s reach and be prepared to handle exposure situations immediately.

Procedure:

If a child ingests a harmful substance, the teacher is responsible for executing the following emergency procedures: Immediately remove the substance from the environment and/or have the child discard any substance that remains in their presence. Do NOT force the child to vomit; this may cause more harm than good. Contact poison control immediately. All teachers will maintain a list of emergency numbers, including poison control, next to the phone.

If the child is unconscious, call 911 immediately.

Check for signs of distress, ...

Introductory Remarks

The USA has always prided itself on being a byword for the land of opportunities any person can enjoy. Such optimism may end where the issue of the minimum wage starts, as employees find themselves constrained by a salary ceiling. Forced into low-income groups of earners, there is nothing they can do except resort to aid or social programs to meet their individual or family needs. The situation round the use of aid has come to reach an alarming point judging by the scope of the issue. Employees representing fast food, home care, childcare, and part-time college faculty sectors ...

When working with young people in the community, it is paramount individuals follow an ethical code of conduct. While there are several reasons for this, there are four primary reason that stand out above the rest. To begin, an ethical code of conduct helps define what the organization is attempting to accomplish with the youth, but also within the community. It also sets a standard toward which childcare workers can aspire to; this allows them to provide direction to youth in the process of helping them while setting clear objectives. Secondly, minimum acceptable childcare standards are too often acceptable ...

Generally, the interview answers correspond with my own beliefs in keeping children healthy. I agree that children should be vaccinated, practice proper hygiene, stay home when they are sick and that classrooms and toys should be cleaned every day and agree with the ways child care workers should be aware of when preventing communicable diseases. However, I’d like to add the non-supervised access to bodies of water (swimming pools, water tables, etc.) and non-age-appropriate furniture to the biggest health hazards in group child care. The necessity to vaccinate children in the earliest possible age has an important reason. ...

Over the last few decades, the level of economic inequality has significantly increased, especially in the OECD countries (John 7). Essentially, the top earning population has acquired a large share of the overall gains in income. Fundamentally, there has been an increasing consensus that major assessment on the level of economic performance should not be based solely on income growth, but the distribution of income. Such assessments are highly concerned with the level of both economic and income inequality. Economic inequality measurements have numerous dimensions, and economists view it in terms of monetary assessments related to incomes for individual ...

Introduction

In the contemporary business world, the work environment is constantly changing, so as the structure that defines the jobs, employees, and employment practices. The rise of globalization has allowed the employees to choose and have a voice in their place of work, and hence forcing the companies to rethink about the future contemporary and future means of acquiring, planning, and using physical space. Therefore, in order for a company to change and enhance the workplace performance, it is important to consider the most interesting issues that affect the contemporary and future work environment. The two most interesting issues in ...

Introduction

Raising a child from birth can be a big deal and quite a job, many couples have found that it is a necessary evil in order to make sure that the child grows up knowing about the various aspects of the world around them. Coincidentally, a newborn do not yet have the concept about the world until they get to be toddler age and they learn a lot more than what not to do regarding certain behaviors. Adopting a child that is already toddler age presents its own set of challenges, it can leave parents trying to figure out ...

Sponsors of the Bill

The New Jersey Assembly Bill No. 834 was sponsored by Angelica Jimenez. The sponsor is the assemblywoman for District 32 (Bergen and Hudson). The Bill seeks to reform mental healthcare in the state of New Jersey by making changes regarding treatment of mental healthcare cases (Assembly, No. 814). It discourages the construction of mental health facilities and alcohol rehabilitation centres near schools in the State.

Summary of salient features

The legislation seeks to introduce amendments to mental health reforms by supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes. It prohibits the development of certain structures within 1000 feet radius from elementary schools within the ...

What insights do the Lange's and the stories by actual women who lived during the Depression give you about women's lives and roles in the Great Depression? Answer. The insights given by Lange’s pictures and other stories from women who lived during the era of great depression explain the plight of women when they were not able to comply with the sudden loss of their jobs and source of income (Pehlan,"The Story of the Migrant Mother"). The great depression eroded the business and associated employment with them but the women were not only victimized of the economic ...

Citizenship and Instruction Program

Experience and Community Need BronxWorks, is a settlement house and multi-service organization with proven track record of leading immigration services since 1998. That year we first collaborated with SEEDCO to launch a series of initiatives that target low-income immigrants with limited English language proficiency. Our organization leveraged resources to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) services and civics classes from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) to more than 250 participants in 2015 and over 600 participants since its inception. For over 18 years, we have provided citizenship and ESL instruction to New ...

A WPR APPROACH TO POLICY MAKING FOR GENDER ISSUES

What’s the problem represented to be? In her discourse on addressing social problems through government policy, writes about how policies are put in place using only one representation of the problem. An example she cites is the problem of high infant mortality rate of Aboriginal children. The Australian government’s investigation drew the conclusion that their nomadic lifestyle was the reason for the problem. Therefore the solution was for them to settle in one place. The assumptions are many; one, that being nomadic is a problem, that two, settlements will give them a better life, and possibly the ...

Irrespective of the history of an adopted child, responsive parenting is vital to a secure loving relationship and the essentials to a loving and health family attachment are the same whether a kid has been adopted or born into a family. Many parents become worried when a young child comes to them with a history of having lost their loving caregiver at their orphanage as they wonder if the child will form a strong attachment with them. Additionally, the issue with the development of the child is also of concern as parents’ worry of the health, education, emotional behaviour, ...

Abstract

Social attitudes have a considerable impact on how people behave towards gender. During the growing up years of children, their attitude towards gender are shaped largely by how parents relate to them. By mere assigning household chores, young boys and girls learn to associate the meaning of their gender with their roles. It was through the modelling and encouragement of parents and other members of the family that young people learn to act according to their gender. Accordingly, the stereotypical attitude towards gender have a detrimental effect in the development of both girls and boys. Girls tend to abide ...

Since the dawn of industrialization, reducing the poverty levels has been a common challenge across nations. Poverty is the unrelenting duty of trying to survive. It is the regular hustle to make ends meet. Some of the few things that can define poverty involves lack of the basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, security and education, which are vital to human life Poverty, is a worldwide concern, which has affected not only developing countries but also industrialized ones. For instance, the United States being one of the prosperous countries in the world has one of the uppermost levels ...

The American family unit is currently undergoing a number of drastic and dramatic changes that are a concern both to the social systems of society and the criminal justice system. The changing face of the American family in terms of function and structure, for instance has a significant influence on delinquency and delinquent behaviors. Due to these changes currently being witnessed in the American family, the link between the family life and delinquency has become a critical issue in the contemporary American society. The extended family has, for the most part of the family structure, replaced the nuclear family ...

In the coming year, I would like to practice as a daycare teacher and specialists in providing childcare training programmes. My rapport with children and high affinity to impart knowledge on others has led me to choose this field of practice. Confidence is a major proponent in ensuring that I trust in my abilities and will be able to impart important knowledge on children in the formative years of their lives. The highest academic qualifications can enable me attain major honors as a certified teacher in daycare. Being a certified preschool teacher is the best fit for my career. ...

Information

The Young Men Christian Association is a nongovernmental organization based on Christian principles. The organization has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Also known as the YMCA or simply the Y, its core values are honesty, responsibility, caring, and respect (Winter, 2002). It seeks to nurture and develop healthy minds, bodies, and spirits, based on the principles of muscular Christianity. The organization engages its beneficiaries in charity events, sports, athletics, and fitness facilities as well as skills and capacity development courses (Young Men Christian Association, n.d.). The association is composed of various composite organizations based in over 125 countries across ...

This research paper examines the effects of women’s education in today’s economy with a goal of identifying its value. This research analyzes the impacts of the degree and kind of education on the female’s capability to secure employment and also, the quality of the job. With a focus on teenager girls, the paper examines the connection between the kind of schooling and the various routes of females to the labor force. The paper uses Egypt as an example to study these parameters. The study reveals that knowledge strongly influences girl’s employment paths in Egypt. In ...

Most families today are dual-earner, as many women have entered the workforce, either because of financial needs, or because of their wish to pursue a career and to be financially independent. While the gender gap is closing on the labour market, at home, the patriarchal ideology is reaffirmed by means of the division of household chores. Whereas men had to assume a share of the household chores, in most families, women continue to perform most of the chores which have been traditionally assigned to them. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the current gender division of ...

Fostering Creativity in Children’s learning

Development of children both intellectually and psychologically is a systematic cycle that requires the collaboration between different social and environmental factors. Music is one such influence to the development of a child’s brain. By making an analysis of different academic materials, it will be easier to determine the true effects of music and arts to child’s development. The study will make it possible to understand the impacts of such approaches to a child’s academic and creativity and hence determine their effectiveness towards enhancing proper brain development.

According to Shore and Strasser (2006), music influences how children think during their ...

A Federally Funded Child Care Center

Childcare refers to taking care of children usually those below eight years old. There are many options available for the working parents. Among them are home-based care by nannies or family, commercial childcare centers and the federally funded childcare centers (Hershfield, 1997). Federally funded childcare centers are the best childcare facilities for the working parents; this is because the federal government regulates the licensing of these daycare centers and among the requirements for funding and licensing is the criminal record of the child daycare staff. This ensures that the child is not exposed to criminals. Additionally, it reduces abuse ...

1. Six Sigma, the Baldrige National Quality Program, and ISO 9000 certification are all programs that aim to improve quality and performance, but they each take a different approach to achieving that goal. Do you think these approaches are competing with each other, or are they complementary? Explain your answer.

Six Sigma, the Baldrige National Quality Program, and ISO 9000 are all quality measurement systems, but they by no means compete with each other. Many companies use all three systems as tools for continuous improvement, and each of them plays an essential role in both satisfying customer and business needs. ...