"While day care is being increasingly used by parents, it is still nuclear what its precise effects are on a child's development are." Consider psychological research into the effects of day care on children's cognitive and/or social development Cognitive development is the growth and development of a child's mental processes. The effects on the cognitive development of children who go to day care are mainly positive especially in boys who benefit most from day …
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…olds in a play ground for the first 10 weeks of nursery their sociability increased it increased bigger in the children who attended 5 days a week. Pennerbaker et al suggested that when children are shy the nursery experience could be threatening which may have a negative affect on their further schooling. It would seem that day care is beneficial for most children in relation to their social development however individual differences must be taken into account.