| Leaving your child in a place you hardly know is a | | | | services they provide and if they will recommend |
| rather painful experience not only for yourself but | | | | to you the same daycare center where their |
| certainly for your child as well. This alone is a very | | | | children go. |
| good reason to be very careful when you have | | | | Gathering information about several daycare |
| to choose which daycare to leave your child. You | | | | centers will give you enough data to choose which |
| will have fewer things to worry about although of | | | | one to leave your child. After selecting, you will |
| course, you will still have some anxieties regarding | | | | have to get in touch with that daycare center |
| the way your child might react to the new things | | | | and ask for a meeting so you can find out more |
| he or she will encounter in your chosen daycare. | | | | by asking them questions that could further help |
| You would have considered a lot of what you | | | | you evaluate the daycare center. They should be |
| think is important for a daycare to have before | | | | able to provide you a list of programs they follow |
| finally selecting one but what you do have to look | | | | and the activities that the children do during their |
| into is the centers capacity to provide your child | | | | stay in the center. The materials they will give |
| with more than the basic attention and care any | | | | you should help you form an idea how appropriate |
| child would need. Not all daycare centers will focus | | | | this particular daycare center is for your child. The |
| on the same aspect of developing the childs | | | | program and activities they have should directly |
| interests and learning needs or give importance to | | | | help in the social and mental development of your |
| what you think is primary in your childs | | | | child. |
| development. You have to find out by your own | | | | Both you and your child should be prepared for |
| investigation and research which daycare center is | | | | the day when you will have to leave him or her in |
| best for your child. | | | | the center. It would not be a good practice to |
| To help you find out which of the many daycare | | | | just bring you child there and hope that |
| centers in your community is appropriate for your | | | | everything will turn out right at the end of the |
| particular child, the Department of Social Services | | | | day. You have to prepare him and let him |
| can provide you with a list of reputable, licensed | | | | understand what it is to be left in the daycare |
| daycare center in your local community. You can | | | | center alone. Without the right preparation, your |
| base your decision on this list. Another way to get | | | | child could suffer anxieties which could lead to |
| information about daycare centers is to ask your | | | | tantrums and other disruptive behavior. Try to |
| friends who have availed of the services of | | | | form a positive picture of whatever experiences |
| daycare centers for their children. They can give | | | | he or she might encounter in the center. Letting |
| you valuable information and recommendations | | | | him or her have a favorite toy could help a lot in |
| based on their own experiences with daycare | | | | relieving his loneliness and anxieties. |
| centers. Ask them if they are happy with the | | | | |