In response to last week's national study linking child care and aggression, the director of the Rivier College Early Childhood Center has written a letter to center parents reassuring them that child care offers positive experiences as well. Better-educated and trained teachers are providing more language stimulation so that the children in their care do better on tests regardless of family economic background.
Quality does indeed make a difference.
An integral piece in the child's development is the balance between child care and the family relationships that children experience. Parents need to hear that there are serious impacts upon a child's well being when care is low quality with many changeovers in staff. Because the Rivier ECC is a laboratory school, teacher qualifications exceed the requirements set forth by state licensing, says David.