By Catherine M. Pruissen Daycare, What Every Parent Should Know Daycare plays a major role in your child's emotional, intellectual, and physical growth. Poor care can stunt your child's ability to do well in school. Low standards of hygiene and safety in a poor child care setting can lead to injury and illness in children. Many child care settings are unregulated. Even where regulations exist, they may not be enforced enough to ensure quality.
Inadequate care causes parental stress.
As a result work performance suffers. Poor arrangements often fall apart, resulting in absenteeism or tardiness at work, irritating some employers. Most of all, quality daycare has caregivers who relate well to children and care about their well-being. Locating the 'right' child care setting takes time, effort and careful planning on the part of the parent. She was also the Centre Coordinator for the Child Care Information Centre in Calgary, Alberta.