Professionals Learn More About Quality Child Care

For many parents, finding the right person to care for your child while you're at work... isn't easy.

But conferences, like the 18th Annual Tri-State Child Care Provider Conference held Saturday in South Sioux City, Nebraska, help.

About 400 child care providers attended the workshops aimed at teaching them how to best meet the need of the children they serve.

Participants were able to explore things like storytelling through music, making nutrition fun and how to report suspected child abuse.

Keynote speaker Tom Copeland says its more than just teaching them and sending them on their way.

He says child care providers need to keep in touch with their children, in order to find out if what they taught clicked.

Tom Copeland, Keynote Speaker, says "The measure of success of a child care program is how well the child does after they leave the program and the only way to know that is to find out what happened to the child later."

The conference helped caretakers also teach science and, at the same time, have fun alongside the children learning about the world around them.

Full text available at News Chanel KTIV