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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Day care might not be so bad, U.T. study finds
Robert Crosnoe, professor of sociology in the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, and his team studied 1,300 children ages 1 to 4 1/2, their mothers and their day cares.
The study found that moms whose children were in high-quality nonparental care were more likely to become involved in their children’s schools when their children hit school age.
The study also found that the kids were more ready for the school setting and more likely to see academic progress in their early years in school.
The study isn’t a shock to me. Day cares teach parents how to get information from teachers, how to advocate for their children, how to do the holiday parties and how to connect with other parents.
For the kids, every year in the halls of the kindergarten wings, it’s usually very obvious which children were in day care and which children have never been in a school setting.
