Daily HealthBeat TipKids, homes, and day careFrom the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I�m Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat. Good child care counts. But a good home counts even more. Researchers have seen that, and the National Institutes of Health has put out a booklet to turn the published research into information that parents can use. Such as: Is it OK for me to put my little ones in child care, starting soon after they�re born? The booklet offers some reassurance on that. The NIH�s Dr. James Griffin: "Children who are in child care are just fine. But there are things like quality of child care does matter. The children do better in terms of cognitive skills, pre-academic skills, things of that nature." (11 seconds) But what happens after a child comes home is even more important. Parents are still tops in kids� eyes. For instance, children do better when a mother is sensitive and caring. Learn more at www.hhs.gov. HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I'm Ira Dreyfuss. |
Last revised: November 9, 2006