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smatram neumjesnim od searsa, a od roditelja djeteta cak i prilicno sebicno, uvaljivati po defaultu dijete baki /bakama/
Ako se dobro sjecam, ovdje je Sears poprilicno krivo interpretiran.
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6 CHILDCARE OPTIONS
In-home care. Having your baby cared for in your own home is preferable. The advantages of home care are familiar surroundings, familiar toys, the germs that baby has already learned to live with, no transportation hassles, and your familiarity with the home. Shared care by your spouse is usually best; next comes grandparents or close relatives. Though more costly, a trained nanny, an au pair girl, and live-in help are other options. But once you go beyond the inner circle of family, relatives, or intimate friends, a seemingly endless search begins.
Shared home care. An option for part-timers is sharing childcare with a friend—"Ill mother yours and you mother mine two and a half days a week," or whatever schedule you work out. This deal brings you the advantage of having a like-minded caregiver, and as a profit-sharing partnership, each is motivated to give the other person's child the level of care they would expect for their own child. Friends with the same due date and back-to-work schedule as yours, and mates in your childbirth class, are ready sources for this arrangement.
Home day care (family day care). In this arrangement baby is cared for in another mother's home. Mothers often do home day care to supplement their family's income and to be home with their own children. The same nurturing priorities that prompted this mother to set up this arrangement may carry over into your baby. You can only be sure of this if you know this person well or have carefully checked out her references. But this is not so ideal if the care provider piles kids to the maximum allowable limit, has weak sick-child policies, and is not an attentive person. An ideal rule of thumb is that one caregiver can usually care for one one-year-old, two two-year-olds, three three- year-olds, and so on, which is modified by the number and ages of her own children. These houses should be licensed, and you should be able to see the license. Remember, licensing deals with safety and medical issues; it does not guarantee a nurturing environment. That is your job to determine.
Parent co-ops. Four or five mothers of similar values get together and agree to care for one another's babies in their own homes in rotation. Since one caregiver cannot manage more than two babies under a year, the co-op hires a full-time caregiver as a parent's assistant. Or several like-minded parents chip in and hire one or two highly qualified and highly paid caregivers to come to one of their houses to look after the babies.
On-site day care. Corporations that value keeping their employed mothers satisfied offer day care at the workplace. Check it out. If your corporation doesn't have this setup, lobby for it.
Commercial day care. In general, day-care centers are not advisable for infants under one year because of too many kids, too few staff members, and the increased chances of contagious illness at a child's most infection- vulnerable time. Also, it's hard to give needed one-on-one attention (while feeding for example) to a six-month-old while refereeing toddler squabbles.