you will select the best day-care option for infant care. Imagine that you are a parent with an infant and must return to work. You need to find a licensed day care center for your child. Based on the descriptions below, indicate both the pros and cons of each day care center. 3. Small Daisies Child Care This licensed day-care center is 10 miles from your home and costs $160.00 per week. When visiting the center you find that the setting appears to be both clean and safe. In the infant room, there are 6 cribs lined up in two rows of three. There are two caregivers in the room, one male and one female. The cribs all have clean sheets, blankets, and bumper pads on them along with a mobile. There are no infant toys in any of the cribs. Two of the cribs have infants in them asleep. One infant is in a swing. The male caregiver is rocking an infant in a rocking chair and the female caregiver is changing the diaper of another infant. None of the infants are crying. When you talk to the caregivers, you realize that one just started and the other caregiver has worked at the facility for five years. The caregiver who has worked there for five years has spent the last two years in the infant room. Before that they were in the toddler room for three years. Both caregivers seem patient and caring toward the infants they are tending to. When looking around the room, you see two rocking chairs (including the one the caregiver is sitting in). The station for preparing bottles is in need of cleaning. Bottles and formulas are labeled with the infants’ names. There are three infant swings, three bouncy seats, and plenty of infant toys in two small bins. Some of the toys appear to be missing pieces but all appear clean.       PRO CON Caregiver-child ratio     Facility cleanliness and safety     Age-appropriate toys     Caregiver turnover rate     Caregiver disposition (patient and caring or impatient)     Meets infants' needs     Distance from home     Cost

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you will select the best day-care option for infant care.

Imagine that you are a parent with an infant and must return to work. You need to find a licensed day care center for your child. Based on the descriptions below, indicate both the pros and cons of each day care center.

3. Small Daisies Child Care

This licensed day-care center is 10 miles from your home and costs $160.00 per week. When visiting the center you find that the setting appears to be both clean and safe.

In the infant room, there are 6 cribs lined up in two rows of three. There are two caregivers in the room, one male and one female. The cribs all have clean sheets, blankets, and bumper pads on them along with a mobile. There are no infant toys in any of the cribs. Two of the cribs have infants in them asleep. One infant is in a swing. The male caregiver is rocking an infant in a rocking chair and the female caregiver is changing the diaper of another infant. None of the infants are crying.

When you talk to the caregivers, you realize that one just started and the other caregiver has worked at the facility for five years. The caregiver who has worked there for five years has spent the last two years in the infant room. Before that they were in the toddler room for three years. Both caregivers seem patient and caring toward the infants they are tending to. When looking around the room, you see two rocking chairs (including the one the caregiver is sitting in).

The station for preparing bottles is in need of cleaning. Bottles and formulas are labeled with the infants’ names. There are three infant swings, three bouncy seats, and plenty of infant toys in two small bins. Some of the toys appear to be missing pieces but all appear clean.

 

 

 
PRO
CON
Caregiver-child ratio
 
 
Facility cleanliness and safety
 
 
Age-appropriate toys
 
 
Caregiver turnover rate
 
 
Caregiver disposition (patient and caring or impatient)
 
 
Meets infants' needs
 
 
Distance from home
 
 
Cost
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