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Definition of Daycare
Daycare In my opinion, is a service provided to parents at specific times of day in the weekdays, by others who are not the childs parents or part of the family, where the child can learn, play and interact with other children in his or her age group. While this is happening the child should develop, social skills,build confidence, friendships, and learn to be separated from their families. Parents use this service because they have to work, run errands, meetings and the services, like these, becomes convenient if there is not a person in the house-hold to attend to the young child, sometimes at a cost or government subsidy.

Benefits of Daycare
There are many benefits to early child care, that can only be attained from a child participating in a child care facility, offering these sevices. There are many different places and programs for child care that provide quality preparations for child early development and for the future world of education. Day care gets the child ready for learning at school, as well as prepares children mentally, socially, emotionally and physically. It also has other perks as well. "In recent decades rational for childcare have swung back ad forth from life Lon gleaning, school readiness, and child development to employability, to women's equality, balancing work and family, reducing poverty, all alleviating at risk status, and social integration,:.

Future Education and job
As the child grows up they will have to attend a public or private School to further their education and having the benefit of attending a quality daycare prior, will indeed make the transition and learning much easier for the child once they are ready for preschool or kindergarten.'''"A 2016 study found that by age 5, kids who attended formal childcare programs had stronger reading and math skills compared to kids who attended informal, home-based care programs,". It has also been known and studied amongst various researchers that all come to find the same result, that children who have started learning early and continues their studies have gone to a post secondary institute and have been able to juggle life and maintain a career of choice. "A 30-year study led by the FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that adults who had been enrolled as infants in a high-quality childcare program were four times more likely to have earned a college degree, and were also more likely to remain consistently employed,”.

Health and Active learning
While children are exposed to many germs and bacterias as well as other general illnesses such as flus and common colds, children immune systems are more tolerant to infections later on intheir growth. A common concern of parents who send their children to day care feel that the children get sick more often as they catch flus and colds from other children attending the faculty. The unknown fact is that daycare helps reduce infection as studies show kids who attend large group childcare get more respiratory and ear infections rather than children who are at home but in the the long term they are less likely to get them. Also the active learning plays major role in a Childs well bein. Studies have shown that "Canadian children are very inactive, with only 9% of boys and 4% of girls meeting the new Canadian PA Guidelines of accruing 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) every day. Moreover, Canadian children are getting an average of 6 hours or more of screen time each day. This high level of sedentary behaviour is concerning, given screen time is associated with elevations in risk factors for type 2 diabetes in children and youth, and these associations are independent of body composition and physical activity [2,3,4]. Similarly, considerable interest exists around the rise in child obesity rates in Westernized countries and its adverse impact on psychosocial health and chronic disease, which is becoming increasingly prevalent in childhood [5,6]. The good news is that systematic reviews have shown that increasing physical activity (PA) reduces the risk of these chronic diseases by improving cardio-metabolic profile in children [7] and may also help prevent child obesity, especially in young children,".

Healthy food
Daycares provides a healthy diet from the Canadas standards for food. Licensed daycares follow a strict nutrition guide set out by the Ontario government. Children must be given a standard share of a variety of nutritious meals and snacks. The daycare must post menus in advance so all parents can see and question them. If your child has a food allergy, her/his name and allergies must be posted in the kitchen and serving area where it can be known that child has specific needs that need to be taken into consideration. Day cares have the responsibly to provide a safe health environment for the child growth and so the menu is very important. It should include items like Plenty of vegetables and fruit, Whole grain breads, cereals, pitas, tortillas, roti, crackers and pasta, Fish, beans, chickpeas, soybeans, lentils, eggs and tofu, Snack foods made with little or no added fat, sugar or salt, Water, milk, fortified soy beverage, cheese and yogurt and 100% fruit juice limited to ½ cup-3/4 cup (125-175 mL) per day.

Physical Activity
Definition: Physical activity is vital for a child's development and lays the foundation for a healthy and active life. Early childhood services are ideally placed to foster the development of good physical activity habits early in life and to encourage families to engage in regular physical activity.

The day cares provides games and activities that provide a physical and active learning experiences that link to children’s interests, abilities, identity. Physical activity in childcare needs to be made up of both spontaneous and intentionally planned active play (child initiated and educator led) that can be done indoors or outdoors. In addition, as active role models, educators can encourage children to participate in physical activity.

The benefits of being active for young children include the following:

promoting healthy growth and development helping to achieve and maintain a healthy weight building strong bones and muscles improving cardiovascular fitness improving balance, coordination and strength maintaining and developing flexibility improving posture assisting with the development of gross motor and fine motor skills providing the opportunity to develop fundamental movement skills helping to establish connections between different parts of the brain improving concentration and thinking skills improving confidence and self-esteem relieving stress and promoting relaxation providing opportunities to develop social skills and make friends improving sleep.

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