The Negative Effects Of Day Care On Children

Everything a child hears, sees, watches, eats and drinks affects them. The most important of all is the environment a child grows up in. The environment they grow up in shapes a child’s personality and behavior. For most children they do not have a choice but to grow up in the environment of a day care. Some children have no choice but to go to day care, because it’s a parent’s only choice. The children would wake up every day and leave their mother to go to daycare for more than eight hours a day. In most cases, parents think that the only way for their child to succeed and learn is to go to day care. Parents don’t take into consideration the negative effects that day care can have on a child. Day care affects a child 's physical and mental state. Sending a child to day care puts their behavior, personality, social skills, development and safety in jeopardy every single day. Any given child could attend day care for more than forty hours a week. More than half of those children are under the age of four (Lang 1). More than 1,000 children spend more than twenty-seven hours in non-maternal care. All of those 1,000 children were under the age of four. Almost all the day cares that children are placed into don’t meet the standards that should be met to keep a day care functioning. Half of the children who attend

A child develops physically and mentally (Zinsmeister 1). Children who attend day care lack physical coordination and less active play. Also coordination between eye and hands were less developed in most kids. When a child attends day care, they have a continuous routine every single day. This continuous routine doesn’t encourage the child’s urge for independent development. Children brought up at home showed to have more independence. Also with less capability of independence, they tended to develop slower in maturity than children raised at home (Sjolund