Parents. What are the most important things you look for in a daycare? ?

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Parents. What are the most important things you look for in a daycare? ?

Answer 1

Private home daycare? or Institutionalized Daycare Center care?? Be more specific.  With homecare there are a million things i could tell you (since ive used them and ran one of my own for over a decade).  With centers?? Theyre all the same.

Answer 2

the most important thing i look for are if it clean, how the teacher's act but personally i rather go with a family member that i really trusted

Answer 3

A good gut feeling.  All the checklists don't mean as much as that feeling... hey, this is a good place.  This is right.  Listen to and respect your gut, even if the place is perfect on paper but there's just "something about it" that you don't like.

Answer 4

1- how strong isthe background check is on staff and faculty and how qualified they teachers r

2- security, like doors with codes that only parents have

3- curriculum

4- methods of disciplining the children (no harsh punishment)

5- r they clean?

6- food they serve

7- how is the teacher my baby is going to be with?

8- state licensing (meet all requirements)

9- happy children there

10- GUT FEELING

Hope I was able to help a little. Good luck!

Answer 5

The things that I looked for in a Great Day Care. I looked for a facility where the hours were flexible ( especially some SAT hours) the price, location, what programs they offered, nutritional offerings,  how many children that facility would operate with, child/staff I make sure they are certified in CPR/first aid ( you would be surprised) I make sure that they are licensed with the state.I would ask other parents who attend there what they have to say about that services they received.Sometimes there are websites that you are able to go to for more information that are in your local area.

Check with the division of health services/day care and you can see if any complaints were ever made against them

Answer 6

Recommendations from friends who have already sent their kids to the place (kids who are either done/outgrown the daycare or who currently attend it) is the most important to me. Then an interview with staff and director of the daycare with a tour of facility. That's just for my instinctive good or bad feeling, because they all tell you the same things about how they will take such good care of your little one, etc.  But while there, check out things like how clean it is, how secure it is (can the little ones wander out of view of their teacher), what kind of toys they have and how new and clean the toys are, etc. Ask for a copy of their policies (discipline, rules for things like if you're late picking your kid up, etc.) too. But most importantly it's recommendations from friends whose kids have gone or currently go there.  

Answer 7

I will answer this from a caregivers position for you because I get this question alot from parents touring the center. First- is the center or home clean and well light, do the children look happy, are the caregivers interacting with the children or just watching them. Ask for references- we get most of our families from word of mouth of other parents who are happy with what we do. Ask about daily schedules, learningopportunitiess for your baby or child. Make sure they have a license from the state your are in. Caregivers should have a clean bill of health and a clean record through the State Police plus First Aid and CPR Training.  As for one of your other answers - centers are not all the same- we have one of the few centers in our area that actually let infants experience art and sensory objects- we teach our children at an early age even as we care for them

Answer 8

I don't have a kid but I was in the daycare part of it. I think you have to look for...how can i say this...signs....if you don't feel comfortable there then it's not the right place. Where i worked there was alot of daycare providers that werent so nice. It was very mild, but they would set a child down slightly to hard in a seat when they weren't listening and they were only 1-2 years old, i thought that was very mean, i would never do that but it really comes down to seeing through it all. You can never tell unless theres an undercover agent in there. so basically it's instinct...