| Child care for your children | | Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:23:29 PM by Rose Martins | Whether you are a parent, childminder, nanny or teacher, caring for a child is a huge responsibility. A parent who opts to work should take special care when investigating the possible child care provider/s for your child.  There are child care day centers that offer half day services and others that offer full day services.
A parent should consider the child care providers at the day care center, as well as the activities planned for each day and the health standards. To a child care provider looking after your child might just be a job, but it's a job that should be taken seriously.
After all, you want to know that your child is being taken proper care of. Finding child care during the evening hours can be difficult. It's important to find a child minder to do evening "babysitting" that you can trust to be capable and above board.
High school kids and college students often do babysitting in the evenings to earn money. It's always a good idea to get references or speak to other parents who have used the day care facility that you are looking into, or the evening babysitter that you are thinking about using to care for your child. When it comes to a child, people will be very willing to warn you of the negative, just as quickly as they will share the positive.
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| | | In Child-Care Class, Dreams Trump Disability | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:48:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's nearing 5 p.m. at La Petite Academy child-care center in Columbia, and Danielle Oliver is on her own with six 2-year-olds. A couple of boys are emptying bins of toys. A girl in blue jeans and a pink tutu chases her friend around the classroom. Another boy wants to go potty. This is Oliver's dream job, the one she really wanted when she was stacking boxes in a Jessup warehouse and making beds at a Holiday Inn and mopping floors at fast-food restaurants. .... | |
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| | | Speaker: Child care must be economic priority | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:49:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Cornell University professor Thursday urged business leaders to make affordable, quality child care an economic development priority. "The majority of our communities have a problem with child care," Mildred Warner, a professor in the university's department of city and regional planning, said at United Way of Central New York's Success By Six sixth annual policy breakfast. Businesses tend to think that child care is a parents' problem, rather than a problem of economic development, she told the 50 business and political representatives at the breakfast at the Genesee Grande Hotel in Syracuse. The child care sector of the economy serves 3.4 million children in the state, she said. Yet, the providers and the government fails to recognize the sector's economic impact, Warner said.... | |
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| | | Newark woman earns child-care credential | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:52:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEWARK -- Terri Eley, of Newark, has earned the Child Development Associate Credential in recognition of outstanding work with young children. The credential was awarded by the Council for Professional Recognition in Washington, D.C., which represents the early childhood care industry. .... | |
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| | | WA child care centre allowed to reopen | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:52:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Perth child care centre which allegedly restrained seven sleeping babies with bed sheets has been allowed to reopen. The Tommie Turtle Child Care Centre in Huntingdale, in Perth's south, was closed late last month after police and welfare officers found seven babies who had been put down to sleep with their legs restrained by sheets. Two carers - a 33-year-old woman and a 45-year-old woman - were sacked and subsequently charged by police with seven counts of common assault. The Department for Community Development (DCD) initially suspended the centre's licence and carried out spot checks on other child care centres wholly or partly owned by the proprietors of Tommie Turtle. DCD executive director of program and sector development Pauline Bagdonavicius said the centre's licence had been reinstated and the owners had assured it children would be safe.... | |
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| | | Area child-care facilities set for Election Day influx | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:50:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | Election Day will be a first-time holiday for students in the Washoe County School District, but plenty of child-care centers are available to accommodate children of working parents. The school board unanimously approved the closing of schools for Election Day last year, so the schools can be used as polling places Tuesday without disturbing students and staff. Closed schools provide the extra space needed for the growing number of voters and the increased energy needs of the touch-screen machines, county officials have said. About 70 schools will become polling places Tuesday. Special activities The Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday. "We'll serve lunch that day, and for members, there will be no extra charge to keep the children all day," marketing director Laurie Gorris said.... | |
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| | | Child-care staff charged | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:54:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | TWO women have been charged with assault after the discovery of seven babies allegedly tied up with bed sheets at a Perth child-care centre. Police said they found the babies with their legs restrained by bedsheets at the Tommie Turtle Child Care centre in Huntingdale last Thursday, in a raid in which they were accompanied by child welfare officers. Police said they charged on Monday two of the centre's carers - a 33-year-old woman and a 45-year-old woman - with seven counts of common assault each. The women were charged by summons and ordered to appear in the Armadale Magistrates Court on November 13. The seven babies were among 42 children being cared for at the centre, which was closed after the discovery. The Department for Community Development initially said the centre could remain open.... | |
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| | | Child care council offers project funding | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 10:52:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Local Child Care Planning Council of Humboldt County is accepting applications for two separate projects: one to determine what child care support businesses would be willing to offer their employees, the other to assess child care needs of children with special needs. Funds must be expended prior to June 15, 2007. The mission of the Local Child Care Planning Council is to assess, plan and promote quality, accessible, affordable child care and development services reflecting the diverse needs of families throughout Humboldt County. Applications for either of these projects are available through the personnel office at the Humboldt County Office of Education, located at 901 Myrtle Ave., in Eureka. HCOE can also be phoned at 707-445-7039. Due date for applications is Nov. 17 at 5 p.m. For more information, phone Judi Anderson at 707-445-7006.... | |
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| | | State closes South Daytona child care center | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:52:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. State officials say a South Daytona child care center must shut down after two toddlers were found wandering along a street. The state Department of Children And Families entered an emergency order of suspension yesterday to shut down the Miles of Smiles Learning Center. It must close by 5 p-m today. A 21-month-old boy and a two-year-old girl slipped out of the center October 24th and were spotted by several motorists who took the children back to the center. D-C-F officials say the Child Care Resource network will work with families to find a new center. The owner has 15 days to seek a hearing with an administrative judge as well as an opportunity to seek a judicial review with the appellate court. Information from: Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com Copyright 2006 Associated Press.... | |
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| | | UI wants more on-campus child care | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:49:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | IOWA CITY, IA - A task force said today the University of Iowa must increase its day care offerings to parents to reduce waiting lists for on-campus child care. The Child Care Task Force, formed last fall, recommended increasing the number of campus-connected, center-based slots from the current 102 to 200 to reduce the number of faculty, staff, and students on waiting lists for services. The recommendations are in a report at: www.uiowa.edu/hr/oe/worklife/famserv The task force recommended that the UI contract, through a competitive selection process, with providers housed in newly leased or acquired space and partner with community child care centers within a one-mile radius of campus. The report does not cover Bright Horizons, a private child-care provider contracted by University Hospitals for hospital faculty and staff.... | |
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| | | Assembly to vote on child-care inspections | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:53:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee released legislation Monday to require the state to establish a seamless oversight system for determining if prospective child-care facilities are free of industrial pollutants and other health hazards. Kiddie Kollege in Franklinville was shut down in late July after workers in the state Department of Environmental Protection discovered it had been operating on the former site of an Accutherm mercury thermometer factory for more than two years. The measure (A-3529) would require the state Department of Health and Senior Services to adopt rules, regulations and procedures for the evaluation and assessment of the interiors of buildings used as day-care centers. The measure now heads to the Assembly speaker, who decides if and when to post the measure for a floor vote.... | |
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