Childcare - A Matter Of Love
In the past, raising a child was something not so complicated as
it is today. Especially in small towns where there was almost no
danger and children could play all around the neighborhood with
their parents being sure nothing evil would happen to them.
Nowadays things are quite different from that. Raising a child
in the 21st century involves a lot of complex questions.
Children must be prepared to face the hard times we are passing
through. Apart from the country in which the child lives, there
is no doubt life is getting more and more difficult to handle,
and instead of playing, making jokes and enjoying a real
childhood, children from all over the world are being obligated
to act like adults and suffer from their early lives.
As many parents are not ready to handle this, a lot of children
are seeing themselves in hard situations, even being abandoned
by their parents. That makes the range of adoptions increase
disproportionately. The necessity for two households makes the
situation even worse, and because of that, the caring is often
delegated to day care centers and child minders, this is the
picture of the actual childcare.
Paying for childcare has become such a common thing, that it is
becoming a big business. People, who prefer the service of
professionals and don't want to have to take children to and
from day care, usually hire nannies. Especially in The United
States, nannies will never be unemployed. There are always some
parents that need their work. Nannies can work in many different
ways. They can live with the family, and be dedicated to the
child she is caring for full time; they can work only the part
of the day the parents aren't able to care for their child; or
they can be hired just on some occasions when the parents have
to go a party or something like that and can't take their kids
with them.
The routine in day care centers is a bit different. These
centers consist of a place where children are educated and they
eat there, they sleep in the afternoons, they play with the
other children, etc. When parents go to work they leave their
kids there and come back to pick them up at the end of the day.
Day care centers are an alternative for parents whose kids are
not of school age, because when the children reach the age to go
to school, the problem of childcare is almost solved. While
parents are working, children are at school, that's quite simple
and practical. But the most delicate time is the early
childhood. That's when children need parents the most, and
that's exactly the time when their care is delegated to
professionals.
All these alternatives for taking care of kids whose parents
aren't able to look for them, because they have to work, even in
order to give them a better life, are completely understandable.
But the most important thing can't be forgotten. The kids must
be raised with the supervision and authority of their parents.
Fathers and mothers can't just go having babies being sure
that's going to be easy to raise and educate them because of the
nannies, the cr