Cuidado infantil temprano y desarrollo: estudios científicos para determinar cuándo

Holis!

Quizás, al igual que yo, te preguntas cuál es la edad ideal para que tu peque comience el jardín infantil. La realidad es que esta es una pregunta que solo podemos responder de forma individual, en base por supuesto a nuestra situación familiar.

Me he dado la tarea de compartirte bases científicas que te ayuden a tomar esa decisión en este blog (iré agregando a medida que encuentre más). Por el momento, las fuentes que he buscado han sido en inglés. Sin embargo, espero que te sean de gran ayuda:

1. Early Child Care and Children's Development Prior to School Entry: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Carehttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3202474?seq=1

2. Type of child care and children’s development at 54 monthshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0885200604000389

3. Pre-school experience and social/behavioural development at the end of year 3 of primary schoolhttps://ro.uow.edu.au/sspapers/1993/

4. The influence of different forms of early childcare on children's emotional and behavioural development at school entryhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2012.01421.x

5. Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0–2 for Girlshttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2737370

6. Do the Perils of Universal Childcare Depend on the Child’s Age?https://academic.oup.com/cesifo/article-abstract/60/2/338/284199

7. Sequence of child care type and child development: What role does peer exposure play?https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-17898-001

8. ROLE OF FIRST-YEAR MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT AND PATERNAL INVOLVEMENT IN BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDRENhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29904929/

9. Child care and low-income children's development: direct and moderated effectshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15015691/

10. Testing a series of causal propositions relating time in child care to children’s externalizing behavior.https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0017886

11. Time spent in child care: How and why does it affect social development?https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-10039-001

12. Relationship between parenting stress and informant discrepancies on symptoms of ADHD/ODD and internalizing behaviors in preschool childrenhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183467

13. NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) Historical/For Reference Onlyhttps://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/seccyd

14. Do Time in Child Care and Peer Group Exposure Predict Poor Socioemotional Adjustment in Norway?https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.12071

15. The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Programhttps://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/pol.20170603

16. Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance?https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775706000434

17. Early Child Care and Adolescent Functioning at the End of High School: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Developmenthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5115787/

18. From early care and education to adult problem behaviors: A prevention pathway through after-school organized activitieshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/development-and-psychopathology/article/from-early-care-and-education-to-adult-problem-behaviors-a-prevention-pathway-through-afterschool-organized-activities/71AC59B2D00E399B53EBA19F39A3C598

19. Early Child Care and Children’s Development in the Primary Grades: Follow-Up Results From the NICHD Study of Early Child Carehttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/00028312042003537

20. Contagion of aggression in day care classrooms as a function of peer and teacher responses.https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2001-05329-005

21. The Effects of Peers on Toddler Interaction with Mother and Toyshttps://www.jstor.org/stable/1128173

22. Mary D. Sheridan's Play in Early Childhoodhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315622248/mary-sheridan-play-early-childhood-justine-howard

23. Altered stress responses in children exposed to early adversity: a systematic review of salivary cortisol studieshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21675865/

24. Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sexhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jora.12250

25. Daycare attendance, stress, and mental healthhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17007228/

26. Children's elevated cortisol levels at daycare: A review and meta-analysis.https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-11665-010

27. Children’s physiological responses to childcarehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X17300775?via%3Dihub

28. Early family and child-care antecedents of awakening cortisol levels in adolescencehttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19489911/

29. Elevated cortisol levels in Norwegian toddlers in childcarehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03004430.2016.1278368

30. Babies and toddlers in non-parental daycare can avoid stress and anxiety if they develop a lasting secondary attachment bond with one carer who is consistently accessible to themhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616730701711516

31. Parents as Child Care Consumers.https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ551027

32. Measuring Early Care and Education Qualityhttps://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdep.12260

Al final, se trata de tomar decisiones informadas que nos permitan simultáneamente vivir la mejor experiencia posible según nuestra situación familiar particular.