Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 7/31/2003 10:22:00 PM Author: Daycare Provider Subject: ratios With a ratio of 1:5 and 2:12 you might be able to give the infants some one on one attention, but not plenty. I have been there--I worked in a center that had a habit of putting too many infants in one room and even though I loved them with all my heart and worked my tail off, they didn't get "plenty" of attention. To be honest, in most cases, the fussy or demanding infants get the majority of the attention and the easy-going and quiet babies get very little. I worked in daycare and it is hard to hear people put down your profession, but God did not intend for infants and toddlers to be in groups or every mother would have multiples. Infants need relaxed time with someone who can focus completely on them for no reason other than because they are loved--and that is hard when there are 4 or 5 other infants in the same room. In group care settings most of the interaction with infants is because of an immediate need and if they do not have a need they are left in a swing or exersaucer or bouncy chair until they have a need. I loved my job and my babies, but there is a better way, and I would have talked myself out of a job if I could have convinced some of the mothers (the ones that had a choice) what they were missing. Name: Email: Subject

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