Nowadays, more and more nuclear families’ parents are struggled with full-time shift, its lead some people to believe that grand parents can manage their children, while others argue that childcare centers are better as a preventive solution to take care their kids. This essay will explain both perspective before concluding with my opinion.
On the one hand, grand parents parenting serves some benefits, such as family’s boundaries and children’s trust in their own family member. In terms of family boundaries, grand parents might supervise their grandchild as well as they do when their children’ parents as a kid and pretend self-affection on their grandchild, as it essential for kids’ mental health due to feel love with their family. Besides, since grand parents are already part of the family, parents might feel more relieve to leave their child under grand parents’ supervision rather than a stranger, as trust has been built since a long time ago.
To sum up, despite grand parents and childcare centers serve benefits, such as families’ affection and well-structured curriculum, there are some issues that parents should be aware of it. Grand parents have some issues for their health, as many the oldest generation have been surfaced by several illness, such as aphasia (cognitive and communication distortions) and alzheimer (memory distortion), it might decrease childs’ supervision which will increase the number of bad accidents. Personally, I believe that childcare centers are the better option for working parents, as their staff are trained to manage children’s development consistently,