Nationwide, greater than 80 percent of all children have participated in day care by the age of four. Early child care and education initiatives such as this and preschool can have an overwhelmingly positive effect on a childs development, from the more obvious reasons to the less overt benefits.
Day care as a social institution began as a result of the reform movement and welfare improvements in the 1800s. While World War II raged on, 400,000 preschool children were the beneficiaries of United States government sponsored, subsidized child care. Contemporary day care activities can help kickstart a childs social skills while helping him or her to grow accustomed to daily educational tasks.
Finding a daycare that promotes personal discovery, positive interactions with other children, and encourages healthy emotional engagement can help a child immensely further down the road, both educationally through middle school activities or private academy schools and professionally through an economically successful career. In fact, it is widely believed that private schooling affords students a better quality education than one they can receive in public school. A great day care environment or preschool can help to begin the progression toward a well adjusted personal and educational life.
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