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When a baby is on the way, there are the usual traditions that mark the occasion: announcements, gender reveal parties, showers and babymoons. Most importantly, there is the search for daycare. According to new and soon-to-be parents, the minute the “+” sign shows up on that little stick, the search for a daycare needs to begin.
“Looking back, I should have gotten on several daycare wait lists the day I found out I was pregnant,” said Gilda McGee, 35, a college administrator and mom to four-month old daughter, Luna.
Finding a daycare is enough to make any parent panic. One soon-to-be mom described the process as a mystery — she did not know where to start. Finding the perfect place to leave your child for six to 10 hours per day can be overwhelming.
There are various childcare development and daycare centers throughout the Queen City. Here is a list of items to consider and questions to ask when researching the right place for your child:
General: These considerations will help you get started
– When will you need daycare to begin? Consider how FMLA, vacation, sick time and family helpers may extend your timeline.
– What is the daycare star system used in North Carolina? How does it affect your search? The star rating system is a standard created by the NC Division of Division of Child Development. Daycare and childcare centers are rated on staff education and program standards.
– What is your budget? Costs range from $140-$350 per week depending on star rating, services and location. For instance, Taylor’s Playhouse is an in-home Four Star daycare in NoDa and their rate is $190 per week. First United Methodist Child Development Center in uptown is a Five Star facility and is $280 per week for the infant room. Sharon Academy is a Five Star facility located in South Charlotte. Their rate for one week is $325 for the infant room.
– Do you prefer a center located at a church, small local company, large national chain or in someone’s home? Plaza Baptist’s Children’s Center and Park Road Baptist Child Development Center are connected to churches.
– Do you require a place close to your work, spouse’s work, near home or somewhere in between? KinderCare offers six locations in the Charlotte area.
– Is part-time care an option for you? Is part-time care offered at daycare centers?
– Do you need meals and snacks provided by the center? Is an organic and natural diet important? Providence Preparatory School serves meals made with fresh and organic ingredients.
– When will you drop off and pick-up your child? Do you tend to work late or get in early? Do you need third shift? Kiddie Farm Child has extended hours.
– As your baby grows, do you want a place that offers field trips or a specific educational curriculum? Charlotte Montessori School offers a Montessori-based education.
Admission process: Once you narrow down your field of choices, ask…
– At what age do they accept children?
– Are you able to take a tour and observe rooms before you make a decision?
– How long is the wait list? How fast do families move off the wait list?
– Do you have to accept a space immediately if your name is called from the wait list?
Vibe: A visit to the daycare center will be a determining factor
– Does the center fit your family’s lifestyle?
– What do your instincts tell you?
– Do the babies and children there look happy?
– Can you talk with other parents about their experience at the daycare?
– Does the center offer Parents Night Out, a parent support group or family get-togethers?
Safety: Look over the policies in place for keeping your little one safe
– How are teachers and assistants hired and trained? How do they conduct background checks?
– What is the teacher-to-child ratio?
– What is the turnover rate for the staff? Director? Families?
– How extensive are the center’s policies? Is the facility strict or loose with the rules?
– How do you sign-in and sign-out your child?
– How do teachers handle emergencies? Illness? Injuries?
– Do they accept children without immunizations? (This applies to people on both sides of fence.
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Procedures: Consider the way a daycare operates
– What calendar does the center follow? Will the center close on traditional holidays? Does it follow the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School calendar?
– What are the visitation policies once your child is in the center?
– How does the center address babies and children with allergies? Special needs?
– What kind of communication can you expect? Daily photos, emails, notes, video monitoring?
Let the search begin.
Photo: Park Road Baptist Child Development Center
This story was originally published September 1, 2016 11:35 PM.
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Princess Charlotte will go to kindergarten
President of the Federation of Intellectual Property, co-chairman of the coordinating council of the NGO “Russian Center for the circulation of rights to the results of creative activity” Sergey Matveev delivered a lecture “The curse of the track: people, intellectual property and the world of creative goods” at the Creative Week in Siberia.
He noted that the post-industrial economy is built on the production and exploitation of the results of creative activity. Its main resource is not natural wealth or industrial capacity, but ideas. It is for products in which human creativity is embodied that people are willing to pay, they are the ones that produce added value.
Thus, according to WIPO, between 2000 and 2014 alone, income from intangible capital increased by 75% in 19 manufacturing sectors. Law arises and protects what society considers most valuable. If in the industrial and raw material era the institution of traditional property was the most important, then in the realities of the creative economy, the institution of intellectual property becomes the key: the right to use content, technical solutions, brands.
When a certain type of asset becomes more valuable, the right to it “strengthens”, and the strengthening of the right, in turn, leads to an increase in the value of the asset. An example of a natural increase in the protection of rights is the anti-piracy memorandum, a sectoral deal signed several years ago by Yandex with the largest media companies.
Pirate links in the SERPs would hardly be of interest to anyone if video content is not popular. When money is invested in the results of intellectual activity, such as cinema, and the disposal of the rights to them brings tangible income, it becomes critical to protect intellectual rights. That is why the media industry is looking for more and more new ways to combat piracy, from legal to technological, from blacklisting to whitelisting.
The creative economy is the economy of human capital. However, knowledge and talent alone are not enough. A system of institutions is needed to transform this knowledge and skills into economic benefits. Intellectual property is just one of these institutions, which is central to the creative economy. When intellectual rights are not sufficiently protected, the market for intangible assets and investments in them are underdeveloped. In Russia, with the protection of intellectual rights, everything is developing well. And other institutions are lagging behind in development.
Taxation in the creation and use of intellectual property, the circulation of relevant property rights is still no different from the taxation of gold mining or woodworking. Financial institutions, primarily banks, and investors simply do not recognize intellectual property as possible collateral for a loan. As a result, the signal to people, “human capital” is given unequivocally: it is much more reasonable to engage not in creativity, but in agriculture. Adapting the system of taxes, finances, investments, infrastructure to the needs of a creative economy is the construction of new institutions that transform talents into economic assets.
It is important that these new institutions and the very process of their creation correspond to the basic values of society. The sociologist Geert Hofstede wrote about these attitudes. For example, one of the attitudes that he singled out was readiness for long-term planning. If you look at Japan and China, then planning in the horizon of 15-25 or even more years is quite suitable for them.
In Russia, too, they are ready to wait for positive changes, but the horizon is more like three to six, a maximum of nine years. This setting is implicitly manifested, including in the regulation, it is enough to recall the Soviet five-year plans or the modern 172-FZ, which sets the timeframe for medium-term strategic planning in the region of six years, and then long-term.
The peculiar “individualism” of Russian society, in turn, will manifest itself in the fact that it is more likely to support not abstract innovations, but, for example, the development of specific services or types of transport. The success of the transition from an industrial-raw-material model of the economy to a creative one largely depends on how the support measures proposed by the state correspond to the basic attitudes of society.
In Russia, the creative economy has not yet “taken off” for two reasons. Firstly, those tools that are borrowed from world experience often do not correlate with the value orientations of Russian society.
People simply “do not read and do not perceive them”. Secondly, the non-systematic steps, their insufficiency, interfere. For example, they give out grants to talented people, open creative clusters — they create infrastructure, support entrepreneurship, but at the same time they do not touch taxation or the financial and credit system. As a result, the necessary condition for the transition to a creative economy is not met, and Russian brains or the results of their creativity, whether artistic or scientific and technical, find application in other jurisdictions with more suitable institutions. In the end, Google was created with the key participation of our compatriots, and this series can be continued for a long time, and examples can be found both modern and hundred years old.
Nevertheless, many tools for the development of creative industries known to mankind are present in Russia in one form or another. This allows us to expect that in the next ten years, a creative economy will develop in at least five to seven large agglomerations, among which Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan will definitely be.