Question

1. Discuss how to know the difference between a cold and something more serious.

2.What is SIDS? list 4 ways to prevent it.

3.How do you know if a child is dehydrated? what should you do to assist the child?

4. explain how licensure and registration of early childhood differ.

5. Discuss the safety importance of staffing ratios and group size.

6. Discuss the four basic principles of risk management.

Answer 1

1. These two types of illnesses have similar symptoms, it can be difficult to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone. Ingeneral, flu is worse than the common cold, and symptoms are more intense. Colds are usually milder than flu. People with colds are more likely to have a runny or stuffy nose.

2.Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexplained death, usually during sleep, of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old. SIDS is sometimes known as crib death because the infants often die in their cribs.

List:

(I) Back to  sleep: Place your baby to sleep on his or her back, rather than on the stomach or side, every time you — or anyone else — put the baby to sleep for the first year of life. This isn't necessary when your baby's awake or able to roll over both ways without help.

(ii) Keep the crib a​​​s bare as possible: Use a firm mattress and avoid placing your baby on thick, fluffy padding, such as lambskin or a thick quilt. Don't leave pillows, fluffy toys or stuffed animals in the crib.

(Iii) Don't overheat your baby: To keep your baby warm, try a sleep sack or other sleep clothing that doesn't require additional covers. Don't cover your baby's head.

(iv) Breast feed your baby, if possible: Breast-feeding for at least six months lowers the risk of SIDS.

3. some signs of dehydration of child:

1. Sleepiness.
2. Irritability.
3. Thirst.
4. Less elasticity in the skin.
5. Eyes and fontanel (or soft spot on head) appear sunken.
6. Decrease or absence of tears.
7. Dry mouth.
8. Decrease number of wet diapers.

If baby is treated for dehydration in the hospital, he or she will get fluids. This treatment often takes 1 or 2 days, but it may be longer. baby may drink fluids from a bottle. Or your baby may get fluids through a soft tube that goes through the nose and into the stomach.

4. The first step to choosing a child care provider is determining whether potential providers have a license from your state or local government. Licensing does not guarantee quality; however, it sets minimum requirements and ensures that programs are monitored for compliance with these requirements.

Child care licensing regulations cover many topics, including the following:

• The number of children one adult can care for a time (child-staff ratio) and the number of children allowed in a class (group size)

• Supervision of children

• Safety of the building (such as emergency exits, cleanliness and repairs, and potential dangers)

Early Childhood Development (ECD) refers to children from birth to nine years. An ECD centre can be a crèche, day care centre for young children, a playgroup, a pre-school or after school care.

To establish and register an early childhood development centre or to apply for changes to an existing registration certificate must:

• contact the office of the Department of Social Development nearest to the proposed centre
• consult the local authority (municipality) to obtain the right of use and the necessary health clearance certificate to run the centre in a particular place
• contact the local Departments of Education and Health in the area where the early childhood development centre is located to find out if they have any other requirements.