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This 4 page paper reports two hypothetical interviews with parents who chose two different types of child care. The first chose center-based childcare, the paper explains the criteria they used to make that selection. The second set of parents chose the maternal grandmother. The essay reports the percentage of children with a grandparent providing child care and some of the advantages along with what the grandmother does. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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quick Internet search to gain awareness of what they should look for and what questions to ask. They began by writing down things about their son, such as his temperament,
his likes and dislikes (Dowshen, 2007), his general personality and how he responded to different people in their life. They also identified their own values and what they wanted their
son to be exposed to and not exposed to and the type of discipline they used with him (Dowshen, 2007). These lists led to a list of the qualities and
activities they wanted in the centers caregivers. Since the boy is three-years-old, the parents decided they wanted a center that included a preschool rather than just child care. Using
an aggregation of information they gained in their research, they decided the child care center/preschool should have children involved in playing and working with different learning materials as well as
with other children (Dowshen, 2007). The materials need to incorporate learning the alphabet as well as numbers (Dowshen, 2007). They wanted the center/preschool to offer a lot of time for
their son to explore and learn on his own as well as under guidance (Dowshen, 2007). Play and learning time needed to be both indoors and outdoors so the outside
equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their son every day since
birth so it was also important that there was at least one reading time each day where an adult read to a small group of children. Information from the
American Academy of Family Physicians also provided these parents with questions to ask that they may not have thought of themselves, such as the child to staff ratio (Editorial Staff,
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