Parents play a vital role in supporting a child’s developmental process. Experts in the field of child development can recite the approximate age at which a child should be able to accomplish a variety of tasks such as stacking blocks, rolling a ball, or manipulating eating utensils. In addition, there are expected ways that a child should be interacting with his or her world given his or her age and these include speech development and relating or playing with peers. While it might be easier on nursery staff if all children were right in line with “normal” development, that simply isn’t a realistic expectation, and “normal” development is hard to come by regardless.

One way to deal with the varying and broad developmental needs of multiple children in one nursery setting is to have the parents or guardians accessible in case a child has a break-down or behavioral crisis. It’s not conducive to have one child in the nursery throwing a tantrum at the expense of the other children. JTECH’s PeopleAlert™ wireless messaging system with ParentPass™ pagers connects parents and their children’s nursery staff in a discreet and efficient manner. With a range of up to two miles, there is little concern for not being able to reach the child’s guardian. As developmental needs vary, the communication needs with the parent will also vary. Consider the child who, for example, is learning to potty train but will only use the toilet when mom or dad is present – discreet JTECH pagers enable the nursery staff to page mom or dad back to the nursery when the child expresses a need to go to the bathroom. This is just one way to support and advance the child’s development. From another angle, pagers are also ideal for reducing any separation anxiety that mom or dad might have with leaving the child with nursery staff. All in all, when people work together, raising children is much easier on everyone, including the child.