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Term(s) |
How it's used |
What it really
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Child care |
"Childcare" is a more
appropriate term than "Daycare" since we care for
children, we do not care for
days! |
No it's not! Although 'Childcare' has a better connotation
than 'daycare', Dr. Westman wrote, "The term 'day care' is more accurate than 'child
care', because it is defined and necessitated by the hours of the day during
which employed parents are unavailable to their children".
-- "The Risks of Day
Care for Children, Parents and Society" by Jack C. Westman, M.D., Department
of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin,
Day Care Child Psychology & Adult Economics, © 1989, p 1 |
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Child-centered |
Our daycare program is child-centered,
developmentally appropriate, and balanced with a variety of creative and
recreational activities. |
Meaningless drivel, since
all daycares are "child-centered", in the same
way that all zoos are "animal-centered".
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Childcare
Provider Appreciation Day (also
see
National Provider Appreciation Day)
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Childcare Provider Appreciation Day
is celebrated each year the Friday before Mother's Day in the U.S.
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A new pseudo-holiday established in
1996, benefiting both the daycare and greeting card industries.
For parents who have enrolled their child in an institution boasting a
high caregiver-to-child ratio, this could get expensive.
On the positive side, given the high turnover rate of childcare workers,
you'll never have to worry about giving the same present twice!
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Curriculum |
Our daycare uses an emergent
curriculum in our infant classroom... |
Some cynical people claim the emergent
curriculum philosophy is merely a "cop-out" for not having a lesson plan.
But realistically, harried daycare workers would be hard-pressed to follow
any curriculum for infants, considering their
schedule! |
Daycare
Day-care
Daycares |
Even before Diego & Berkeley were born,
their parents
enrolled them in San Jose's most prestigious daycare. |
Baby farms, child warehouse, daytime
orphanage, kiddie kennel, pediatric penitentiary
(The noun, day care, didn't appear in dictionaries until fairly
recently.
It was included for the first time in The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary, Tenth Edition, published in 1993.) |
CONTEST:
Anyone who comes up with a
humorous definition for a previously undefined daycare "buzz word" that we
select for our daycare glossary will win a stylish "Daycares Don't Care"
window cling.
submit entries here
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Last updated:
09/10/2014
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