How can I find a list of accredited and licensed daycare centers in Miami, FL?

Question

I need to find daycare for my 2mth old asap.. I live in the Miami downtown area.. does anyone know where I can get a list of licensed centers in this area? please help!

Answer 1

Here's a site: http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/childcare/
And a phone number: [phone]

Answer 2

Did you know there's actually been lots of research on the impact of separation from mom in the first three years of life? NICHD is the agency that's been overseeing international and longitudinal exploration of the impact on children of spent more than 10 hours a week apart from their mothers.

The results show separation is a disaster. In fact, one of the researchers said when the latest round of data was released, 'No matter how hard we tried, we couldn't make these results go away.'

It's been amazing to watch these psych scientists being confounded that the research on infant/toddler separation from mommy finds what the attachment work of a half century ago found - human infants need their mothers and are harmed by her absence.

I actually got a letter from Dr. Sarah Friedman in response to my inquiry about a round of research released a few years back. It showed a bad impact even if the substitute caregiver was dad, grandma, high quality day care or a neighbor. She said 'we don't know that it's separation, it could be the color of the paint at the day care center.' When I wrote back asking if daddy was painting the house every day after mommy left, she had no more to say.

Of course. Because as these working mom academicians who turned their backs on their training (and their own children) said - they tried to make the bad effects of separation go away through their research designs, and they couldn't.

Baby long for mommy. In the first year of life, if she doesn't come pretty quickly when baby starts to cry (as she cannot if baby is in substitute care) a baby concludes - mommy doesn't care, my needs must not be good, the world is a lousy place. This is a very bad start in life and the research is strong on this, even apart from day care (non-responsive at home moms produce the same bad attachment results.)

Also, when babies cry, their brains flood with a stress hormone, cortisol. Cortisol suppresses learning! Plus, brain cell connections are only formed in babies when babies are held.

When babies enter care in the first year of life, their dads are less approving of them! Moms are less warm to the baby and babies less attached to the moms. Apart from this devastation to the family unit, there are bad affects for the baby's intellect, social skills, and even health. Kids in care get more than 2x as much surgery as kids not in care! and have 7x the ear infections.

Answer 3

Go to a welfare office and they will have a list that they can give you. Everyone on the list has to be state certified.