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Child Care Stabilization Grants

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) (Pub. Law 117-2), signed on March 11, 2021, included nearly $24 billion in Child Care Stabilization Grants to be allocated to states, territories, and Tribes. The goal of the child care stabilization grants is to provide rapid financial relief to child care providers to help them pay for unexpected business costs they faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. By providing much needed economic relief to child care providers, this funding will help them stay open so that that they may continue to serve working families.

To learn more about which child care providers are eligible, how to apply, and how funds can be used in your state, territory, or Tribe, visit the Child Care Technical Assistance Network’s “Find Stabilization Grant Applications for your State or Territory” page.

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Parents, ask your child care providers if they have received their COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccinations are free and available to child care providers through the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program. Learn more about the vaccine, the campaign to get all child care providers vaccinated by the end of March 2021, and how child care providers can schedule vaccinations.

• VaccineFinder: Find COVID-19 Vaccines Near You
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General Resources

• Federal Response to COVID-19
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• CDC: COVID-19 National Cases and Data
• CDC COVID-19 Guidance and Resources for Schools and Child Care

Family Resources

• CDC COVID-19 Resources for Families: How to Prevent Illness
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• COVID-19 Resources for Children and Families
• CDC COVID-19 Resources for Families: Know What to Expect at Your Child’s K-12 School or Early Care and Education Program
• CDC COVID-19 Resources for Families: Questions to Ask Your Child’s School

Provider Resources

• CDC: Supporting COVID-19 Vaccination in Schools and Child Care Programs
• CDC COVID-19 Guidance and Resources for Schools and Child Care
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How can I help my child get used to kindergarten? – Society

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We learned from a teacher with 20 years of experience at what age it is better to send a child to kindergarten, what mistakes parents themselves make, and also asked mothers of preschoolers how they themselves experienced this time and what helped them with it.

All conscious parents are well aware of Lyudmila Petranovskaya’s books and her opinion about kindergarten. If you are not yet in the subject, we will tell you briefly. According to the psychologist, the kindergarten is needed primarily by the parents themselves for the simple reason that they need to work. As for the socialization of the child, his development, the closest environment (that is, the family) and communication with other children on the playground are enough for this.

If parents can pay for a private garden, then it is better to spend this money on a nanny so that the child remains in a familiar and comfortable environment for him. If at all to give to the garden, then only after three years, because (all child psychologists are unanimous in this) the child up to this age still has a very strong connection with his mother.

Let us immediately indicate that the purpose of this article is not to “push foreheads” of psychologists and educators, but to find out the opinion of an experienced teacher-educator who has worked in a kindergarten for more than a dozen years, and mothers who sent their children to a nursery, and get useful advice illustrated with real life examples.

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“The sooner the better”

I am convinced Anna Ivanenko, preschool teacher , who works in one of the Krasnodar municipal kindergartens. By the way, she is a mother of three children and already a grandmother:

– The earlier parents send their children to kindergarten, the faster they become more independent, adaptation goes much better. The children themselves do not remember this period at all later. But the older the child becomes, the more consciously and more difficult it is for him to go through this process. In general, it is normal for children to cry in kindergarten when they part with their parents. We, adults, when we come to a new team, also do not hug everyone at once. We look closely, we look closely, we listen .

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“My opinion is that after two years, children are already bored at home. A child needs “children”, and you can’t sit out on the playground all day. With their peers in the garden, children are more interesting than with their mother, besides, I believe that social intelligence needs to be increased and “pumped up” , – considers Evgenia Pashkova , who left the decree to work two years after the birth of her eldest son and plans to send her youngest daughter to a nursery at the same age.

Does he eat by himself? Ready for nursery

According to the educator, a child should be sent to the nursery group when he has already formed the habit of eating on his own and when he is already asking to go to the toilet. It is clear that this is not about neatness at the table, but about the ability to hold a spoon and bring it to your mouth. That is, when children consciously eat, and do not indulge in food.

Anna Ivanenko gives an example from her own life:
— take off, eat on their own, go to the toilet. I myself was ready to give her to the garden, but then we were not given a ticket.

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“My son is now two years and four months old and I still spoon feed him. When I gave it to the kindergarten, I thought: “God, the child will die of hunger…”. Taking him away from the garden on the first day, I asked the teacher:
— He must have had nothing to eat all day?
— What do you mean? I ate both the first and the second, and also “polished ” with compote!
— How, yourself?
— Yes, I took a spoon and ate everything myself.

So the ability to eat on your own, I think, is not an indicator. And in my case, the child is just lazy. Why eat by yourself if mom is nearby? , – tells Angelica Sidorova .

Diaper weaned? Perfect!

There are really few children who come to the nursery without them. And although many parents say: “We are at the stage of weaning,” the teacher will always understand whether this is really so.

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– The child may still be in a diaper, but if at the same time he is already asking to go to the toilet – yes, the weaning stage. It is better to wean from diapers in the summer, go for a walk with a stack of interchangeable underpants and change them as needed. The child is uncomfortable in the wet, and this stage is easier and faster. My youngest pupil was one year and four months old. He was still wearing a diaper when he came to the nursery. Operation Pot, as I call it, was successfully completed in four months – says Anna Ivanenko .

How to prepare a child for kindergarten, if he goes there for the first time?

To tell and show what kindergarten is like
You need to start talking with your child about the fact that he will soon grow up and go to kindergarten, you need in advance. Tell him what it is, what the children are doing there, who the educators are. Take a walk with him near the garden where you plan to give him. If possible, walk around the territory of the garden itself so that the child understands that there is nothing to worry about, that it is interesting, because the garden has playgrounds, toys, swings, slides.

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“When my son was two years old and I started taking him to kindergarten, we read a book about kindergarten with him. There are a lot of such books, psychologists recommend reading them to children. At home, we have the book “Potya the Kitten Who Goes to Kindergarten”. It describes how the kitten wakes up, gets ready, comes to the garden, what he does there – and so on all day. The son fell in love with this book and began to really understand what was really happening in kindergarten. So these kind of books are actually useful.” , – comments Angelica Sidorova.

Correct home mode
As a rule, the usual home mode does not match the mode in the garden. Start gradually “pulling it up”. Wake up the child a little earlier, adjust the time of the morning walk, so that when you return from the walk, feed him lunch and immediately put him to bed. And so on.

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Teaching a child to be independent
– Parents do a lot for their children, because it’s easier and faster for them. Dress, undress, fasten buttons or zippers, tie shoelaces, collect toys, clean up the table after class. But if the child does not do this himself, he will not develop fine motor skills, dexterity and dexterity, – Anna Ivanenko notes .

Leave your child with other people
First, for a short time with grandparents or other relatives, with neighbors with whom you are friends, your friends and good acquaintances, whom you trust. In the future, this will simplify adaptation in the garden.

— One of my pupils had one day of adaptation. And this was the second junior group, where children of three or four years old go. Mom herself was at a loss, only spread her hands. Well, I think it means that on the second day the adaptation will come out. No. “Mom, bye!” Then I found out that, it turns out, my mother worked and then asked one girlfriend to sit with her son, then the second. The child is used to being with other people. And when he came to the garden, he was not bothered at all by the fact that he was left without his mother in the garden, he was primarily interested in toys , – says educator .

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“Everything went perfectly”, or another story with quick adaptation

15 I had to send my child to kindergarten at two years old . I didn’t plan it myself, but at work they asked me to leave the decree earlier. True, in response to my applications at the MFC to give us a place in a nursery, I received ten refusals and realized that only a private garden shines for us. For a week I traveled all the private gardens of Gidrostroy in Krasnodar. I chose the one that I liked the most and took the child there. The first day I left it for two or three hours. But when I came for him, he was already asleep and burst into tears only because he was awakened. In general, the son was ready to stay in the garden from the first day. And in the future, we had no tears, no dramatic partings in the morning, no rituals.

Long farewells are more characteristic of mothers who are not yet psychologically ready to part with their children for a long time. The child understands this and clings to the parents. 9 also faced her own difficult adaptation to the garden.0163 Evgenia Pashkova :

— My son got used to the garden rather hard. At first I left it for ten minutes, then for twenty, then for half an hour, and so on. There was never such a thing that the educators called me and told me to pick up Savely ahead of time. But there were cases that he came to the kindergarten, cried, I left, then returned for him, and he sat in the same place. But still, I adapted to the garden to a greater extent than my son, and it was more difficult for me. I got used to the idea that I needed to leave Savely, convinced myself that it was safe, interesting and useful for him here.

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According to Evgenia Pashkova , farewell rituals, both at parting and at a meeting, when you pick up a child from the garden, are very important and they really work. It’s just that parents themselves need to be prepared to spend a little more time on it. Put the child on your lap, cuddle with him for at least a few minutes. And she is categorically against leaving on the sly when the caregivers distract the crying baby for a minute:

— I read Petranovskaya and other child psychologists, and they all say that a child experiences real panic when his parents leave him in the garden like this. This then affects the quality of sleep. And although the educators themselves say that children forget about this, it seems to me that I am losing some part of my child’s trust in me. I definitely won’t do this with my youngest daughter.

If a child has difficulty adapting to kindergarten, Anna Ivanenko suggests taking his favorite toy or something that connects him with home or with his mother. Some mothers, for example, when combing their daughters, pin their hairpins or put their hair bands on their wrists or tie some symbolic laces.

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— For the first time, I put my son’s favorite knitted diaper, with which he used to fall asleep at home, with his pajamas, just holding it in his hands. He already went to the garden after three years. The teacher never took the diaper out of the locker during the adaptation – he fell asleep well without it. But it was important to him that she was here, among his things. My son felt so much calmer , – shares Evgenia Borisova , mother of four-year-old Sasha.

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Follow the child’s lead
— Parents make a gross mistake when, bringing the child to the garden and seeing that he can’t calm down, feel sorry for him and back down. “No, we won’t go to the garden today.” I call it “hello and goodbye”. Such situations, although not often, do happen. But you can’t do that at all, – says Anna Ivanenko and adds:
– Of course, an individual approach is very important. For some of the children for the first time, half an hour is enough. But gradually still increase the time spent in the garden. If the child is not toddlers, you can negotiate with him.

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Promise and not keep your word or bargain
– For example, “I’ll pick you up early” or “I’ll buy you something.” There was a case when dad promised to come early, but could not because of work. It is better to come unexpectedly – it will bring more joyful emotions than to promise and not do it. Bargaining is also not a good thing. The child will get used to waiting for a reward for any manifestation of good behavior. Then it will be difficult to break this scheme and try to negotiate something with him on some confidential terms.

Demanding a promise from a child
The most common: “Give me your word that you won’t cry!” No need. Realize that it’s hard for him right now.

Bring food to the garden
— There were several cases when mothers brought their children to feed them in the locker room. Parents, why are you doing this? I don’t understand. Children are fed in the garden, they need to get used to new food for them, and the sooner the better.

“They will take everyone away, but they will forget me”, or trust rituals
Immediately or over time, many parents face the fear of children that they will be forgotten in the garden. We do not consider those stories when moms and dads really did not pick up the children, having become confused, whose turn it is to go to the garden to pick up the child. It refers to completely unreasonable fears. How to be in that case?

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Evgenia Pashkova:
— When her son just went to the nursery, the teacher performed such a ritual. She took a cap from a ballpoint pen – a symbolic “key” to the door and said: “Savel, we are now seeing your mother and we will close the door behind her. And when she comes for you, we will open it for her. And it worked great.

One of the parents leaves a bunch of real keys in the children’s locker and says: “I will definitely come for you, otherwise how will we get home?”. And it works too.

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– My son began to worry about whether I would definitely pick him up, having gone to the garden for about six months. It seems to me that this is such an “infectious” fear: one child in the group is afraid – and the others pick it up. I had to be patient to repeat the same thing every morning: “I will definitely come for you! When did I leave you in the garden? You come home with me every evening.” Then I began to supplement these phrases with plans for the evening: together we discuss what we will do after the garden, and we say it in detail. Sometimes I write to the teacher in the messenger and ask to remind my son about our plans. And so, over time, this anxiety decreased in him, but from time to time the question: “Will you definitely pick me up?” son speaks. But I think it’s more of a habit. For him, this is also something of a ritual: to hear what is important for him to hear, – complements Evgeny Borisova.

When to leave the baby to sleep?

Some educators are in favor of not delaying the adaptation, but each child must be approached individually.

— Daytime sleep in the garden also requires adaptation. There are kids who just don’t go to sleep. Okay, don’t lie down. Sit on the bed and sit. Don’t take anything off, don’t take off your shoes. Sat is good. I have one girl so sat weeks two. And not even on the bed, but on a chair nearby. So I fell asleep on a chair, I caught the stage of deep sleep, quickly took it off and put it on the bed. Two weeks later, the girl agreed to take off her sandals herself. In total, it took two months. She fell asleep – I shifted , says Anna Ivanenko.

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— My son is now two years and seven months old. I gave it to the garden in October last year. And just recently, educators began to leave him for daytime sleep. They explained it to me like this: “In the first week, we put one child to sleep. The next one is another. And so gradually all the newcomers. At first I thought, maybe this is a special technique, I asked other educators I know. But they were also very surprised. I was very worried about this scheme myself, because during these months my son had already got used to the fact that I pick him up before dinner, and he was always waiting for me. But, according to the teachers, now he sleeps normally, although sometimes he wakes up ahead of time. One of them then calls me: “Take it.” Or they don’t call – and he, accordingly, the son stays in the garden until midday, – says Yulia Sokolova .

“Laying several new children at once, I agree, is difficult. Because every child needs a different approach. But in this case, educators so simplify their lives. It’s wrong to do this,” Anna Ivanenko comments on .

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— I think that adaptation largely depends on the level of anxiety of moms. I am not an anxious mother at all. I am sure that everything is in order with my son in the garden. I’m calm for him. If something goes wrong, he will tell me about it. But I have a colleague at work who is always very worried about her child, and something constantly happens to him. As if he reads it: “So, today I haven’t broken my knee yet, so let me fall.”