Decide on Daycare Mission Decide on Daycare's goal is to help parents with advice about how to find the best daycare for their children. We answer the child care questions that parents don't even know they have. For answers to all of your daycare questions turn to Decide on Daycare! #DecideOnDaycare
Grab Our Badge Just copy and paste the HTML code into your own site!
|
By Daycare Mom, on February 3rd, 2013  Chinese New Year begins on February 10, 2013. It’s one of the most important holidays in the Chinese calendar. It lasts for 15 days and is cause for much celebration, and a feeling of renewal. Sharing the concept of Chinese New Year with day care children would open the door for some fun activities!
Many families will clean the house during the celebration, in order to sweep away bad fortune and welcome good luck into the home. Making cleaning a part of a . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Celebrating Chinese New Year at Day Care!
By Daycare Dad, on September 9th, 2012  Back to school time comes with a whole mix of emotions for parents and children alike. Even if you don’t have kids that are in school yet, they are bound to be affected by those that are heading back to school. Some kids will love going to school, while other children will be terrified about a change from their usual daycare routine. Parents can have the same range of emotions as they try to deal with their children in different places and always the struggle of them growing . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Daycare Back To School Blues
By Daycare Mom, on June 18th, 2012  What is it about kids and water? They are deliriously happy playing in the neighborhood pool or a wading pool in the backyard. It seems like such a basic part of childhood, that it’s hard to imagine that an average of 390 children under the age of 15 die annually from drowning, and 75% of those are children under the age of 5 (http://www.poolsafely.gov/drowning-deaths-injuries/). If your daycare provider takes your child to a pool, has a pool in the backyard, or sets up . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Daycare Pool Safety
By Daycare Dad, on May 23rd, 2012  A new article by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety was recently published going into detail about the safety of 2011 vehicles in regards to the LATCH system for child car seat restraints. The results were surprising, and a little disappointing. Even though the standards for child restraint safety have been in place for some time it is amazing the amount of modern day vehicles that do not seem to have child safety and car seat installation in mind.
As . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Is Your Daycare’s Car Designed for Car Seats?
By Daycare Dad, on February 19th, 2012  President’s Day is coming up and this is a great time to take a moment and discuss what a president is to this county and what they do to make America great. We may tend to steer clear of discussing politics with our children, and with the ugliness surrounding our current political climate, it’s no wonder we would rather protect them from it. However, it’s important for our children to know how things work in America. It can also be fun for them to learn about the presidents . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Presidents Day Facts About Barack Obama
By Daycare Dad, on January 13th, 2012  Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on the third Monday each January. King’s birthday is January 15, so the observance falls around the time of his birthday. Many schools observe this holiday and are closed for the day, but many workplaces are not, so there will be lots of kids in daycare that are normally in school. These school age kids will likely learn about Martin Luther King Jr. in school, and there may be some activities in daycare.
Martin Luther King Jr. is probably the most recognizable figure in . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with Daycare
By Daycare Dad, on December 29th, 2011  Are you wondering what to do with the piles of new stuff you have for your kids? Are they outgrowing the toys you have been accumulating over the year? Is that tax time just around the corner? Here at Decide on Daycare we can help you with all of those!
It’s that time of year again, when we find ourselves buried under piles of new toys while we look at the piles of old toys to and try to figure out what to do with it all.
First . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Cleaning Out Toys for Daycare and Tax Deductions
By Daycare Dad, on November 25th, 2011  One of the most frustrating things to both parents and their children is not being able to communicate properly. It takes children years to learn how to talk. As a parent you don’t have to wait years to learn to communicate with your child. How do you talk to those that can’t? Through sign language of course!
Sign language is something that your baby, even an infant can learn to use. It is comprised of basic motions and movements which are much easier for your baby to learn then a speaking . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Cyber Monday Deal on Baby Signing Time
By Daycare Dad, on November 22nd, 2011  It’s that time of year again. Time to start thinking about what to do with the holidays and what we want to do for those special people around us. As soon as your children are old enough to talk you can start to involve them in this wonderful season of giving. It is very important as a parent to start to teach your children the value of giving and doing special things for those people that we care for.
With the hectic schedule of the holidays its easy to overlook some . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Black Friday Deals for Daycare Parents and Providers
By Daycare Dad, on October 31st, 2011  Happy Halloween parents and daycare providers! This is usually a very busy day for everyone. It is very fun day for most but it is important to keep a few things in mind to make sure that you enjoy Halloween. With a little parenting advise and foresight we can make sure that this day is great for both the children, their parents and the hard working daycare providers.
Halloween is a fun time for parents, their children as well as their daycare providers. Most childcare providers have a host of fun . . . → Continue Reading This Day Care Article: Halloween at Daycare
|
|
|
