The Difference Of The Children's Self-care Abilities Between Boarders And Day-boarders

The self-care abilities are very important to children. There are many factors that will influence the self-care abilities,one of those is whether the child is boarder or day-boarder. This research focus on differ the effects of the boarders and the day-boarders.In this study, we chose 232 children's parents of a kindergarten in Changchun City as subjects, 38 of the children are boarders, and the other 194 are day-boarders. In general, the boarders'self-care ability is better than the day-boarders'. Living in the kindergarten all the time, the boarders'self-care ability are independent with gender, age, grade, guardians, and parents'education. But for day-boarders, their self-care ability are influenced by many factors. First, in the day-boarders, girls'self-care ability is better than boys'. Second, the elders'self-care ability is better than the youngers'. Third, the higher the grade is, the better the children'self-care ability is. Compare with the other day-boarders, those who are looked after by grandparents get the lowest score about self-care ability.