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Compare And Contrast Home Day Care Vs Home Care

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Debbie Gross
Melissa Nieding
ENG 121-049
16 March 2011
Home Day Care verses Center Based Day Care
Choosing between center-based day care and home-based day care can be a very harrowing experience for a parent. The following evaluation may be helpful in choosing the best fit for your day care needs. Although many parents may choose center-based care, as a parent I prefer home day care in favor of its scheduling, environment, pricing, and amenities.
Home-based day care takes place in a day care provider's home, which results in a more personal homier feel. It offers your child the opportunity to be with a group of children of a variety of ages where older children can be a role model for the younger ones. There are fewer children …show more content…

Center- based care tends to have a high incidence of employee turnover. Many things may factor into this, some of which may be low salary base, high ratios of caregiver to child statistics, and that many employees are high school girls who are more interested in socialization than caring for the children. Injury, illness, and disease transmittal tend to be higher in center-based care. Some reasons for this are the amount of children in each group, a variety of personnel coming, and going throughout the day. In addition, the enormous amount of traffic generated by parents entering and leaving the center on a daily basis is greater than that of home-based care. One advantage of center-based care is that the rooms are set up according to age and the environment is very inviting with age appropriate toys and activities in each room.
Home based day care can be a more affordable option. Based on where you live you can expect to pay monthly rates ranging from $800.00- $1500.00. Most home-based day cares require a two-week tuition deposit, which can be applied to the first two or last two weeks of care. In my experience, most seasoned home day care providers will have a contract. If one does not exist, you may want to suggest one as this will protect both parties and each will know the expectations up front. In the state of

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