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Day care program are for single mothers who does not have the luxury to watch their child while working or attending school. A day care center allows a mother some flexibility in her life so she can work or attend school. The mother can not watch the child all day and expect life to be better. Rent needs to be paid, and more income is necessary for a better life. A day care center allows her to attend school to further her education to obtain a better job and while working full time or part time. The best of it all, is that the mother knows her child is in good hands.
In a day care center, there are programs that a child will learn depending on the age of the child. If the child is younger than 2 years old, the day care worker will watch the child, feed the child, and teach them simple lessons such as learning their numbers and alphabets. To find the best day care center, the mother can look up in the phone book directory or search online locally. She can visit each day care center to get a feel of the place her child will be in. It is important for the mother to choose the best day care center.
The most important thing a mother should look for in a day care center is how the staff treats the children. Some staff are not gentle to a child and some staff are patience with the child. Some staff are more willing to teach the child good behavior while some staff just doesn't care. The second most important thing to look for is safety of the child and the environment they are in. The mother should question here, is the day care free of possible danger? such as sharp edges of a table, or large objects hoovering over the child such as a toy bin. The place of the day care center should be clean, dirt and odor free. The place of the day care center should be suited for a child to be in. There should be drawing and colorful decoration of the day care center.
When visiting a day care center, the mother should ask the day care center staff, are they licensed to open a day care center? do they have a good history of the day care center? are there enough staff to watch every child being cared? What safety guidlines do they follow and how will they react in case of an emergency? who is in charge of the day care center? how many childrens are there? Do any children have diseases that are contagious?
There are many day care programs offered by Government to help mothers, especially single mothers. There are programs that help find programs to help pay for child care or offer a low fee. Many of these child care programs can be found online or a local directory, you just need to know where to look. The kinds of help offered byt the Government is State child care subsidies. These are subsidies offered to parents that are helped by the States to help curb the cost of a child care. Many of these programs are offered to low income families and mothers attending school. There are so many programs and scholarship for child care. One of the best program is Head Start which is a federal funded program to offer free education to children who are low income.
