Similarly, the greater frequency of structured activities may also lead to the children's performing at higher intellectual and linguistic levels. The study is clear that high quality care has beneficial effects for social and cognitive outcomes for children. The study also establishes a link between training and good staff-child ratios and better outcomes for children. Therefore, improved compensation and incentives for providers to obtain more training, as well as improved staff-child ratios, must be priorities. The children in this study look like every other child in terms of their behavior.
Some young children are simply more aggressive than others.
The reality is that 13 million young children are in child care on a regular basis. One in three children are poor even though their mothers work, or would be poor if their mothers did not work. We need to support families through paid family and medical leave, reasonable vacation and sick leave, flexible workplaces, affordable health insurance, and access to quality affordable child care.