While observing children, whether in person at my job, or through a movie, it is not hard to relate it to what I learned in developmental psychology. The movie Daddy Day Care was interesting to watch because I could apply the information I learned to analyze the movie.
Throughout the beginning of the movie there were many inappropriate child care practices and activities. The lunch was not healthy for the children, they were eating candy and junk food. It was also not important to read a mission statement to the children. At such a young age, the children are not going to understand a mission statement. There were many other wrong moves made by the care providers, letting the children run around the house, giving money to the kid to stop screaming, riding the lawnmower, teaching the children to fight, and letting the kids make the house a disaster. Children need boundaries or completely chaos will break out.
There were two environmental influences that caused the children to act certain ways. One was the care providers, and the other was the place in which the children went to daycare. There was a night and day difference between the children that went to Daddy Day Care, and the children that went to the prep school.
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They consisted of lots of breakables, scissors, buckets on children's heads, no safety gates, lots of steps and levels, a beehive, many objects at eye level, and no door locks. When opening a day care, the house needs to be child proofed. The environment needs to be safe for the children. Anything that could cause children to get hurt is a liability issue. The Dads could prevent a lot of the safety hazards that were in the house. They could add door locks and gates, they can get rid of the beehive and all other breakables, they just had to be a little more careful with the surrounding objects in the