Finding adequate childcare has become increasingly difficult in the bay area. Population increase has made finding services such as childcare difficult. Three Silicon Valley businessmen faced with this problem came up with an innovative solution. Out of their frustrations with the usual time consuming methods of finding good day care for their own children, a new concept embodied in their company, DayCareVideo.com emerged.
Three South Bay professionals Richard, Scott and Howard came up with a unique answer to finding quality childcare. They experienced the time consuming process of looking for child care for their own children. They had looked for child care individually, going to many different homes and centers. Talking about their problems, they decided collectively there must be a better way. In the discussion of solutions, it was confirmed that the available technologies were not being efficiently used to eliminate the time consuming process of having to go from one childcare provider to another. They believed that it would be much more efficient if parents who were busy professionals could go to one location and view slides or videos of available childcare providers.
The team believed that if local childcare providers could be presented this way, parents could then have an opportunity to select those specific providers they felt could meet their requirements. This would give them an immense break of time and expense from having to phone, drive and interview providers all over the East, West and South Bay areas. Richard, Howard and Scott took their idea and have made it into a practical business. DayCareVideo.com offers an extensive and growing list of childcare providers on videotape. Subscribers to this service can make an appointment with them and have them come to your home or business and show you videos of the providers.
These videos show facilities locations, give information on programs and discuss the philosophy of the different services their Videos answer questions and makes referrals to those childcare providers that their clients are interested in.
This service has also proven itself very popular with employers. They can offer this service as part of their employee benefit package. Employers find that this is a very popular part of the packages for new employees who come from other cities and areas. Many employees coming to the area with their families use this service for its cost effectiveness. Established employees starting new families find it very useful for locating services. This benefit also helps the employer by reducing the amount of time employees are away from the work place finding childcare services. Lost man-hour's can seriously affect the efficiency of companies.
Using DayCareVideo.com's services can be one of the ways in which employers can reduce employee absenteeism. Contracting the services of DayCareVideo.com gives the employer a progressive image, one that enhances its stature, in an era where employees through their unions and other organizations like the National Organization for Women have emphasized employers to be more responsiveness to the childcare problem.
Richard Robinson, DayCareVideo.com's founder states "We don't want to compete with established childcare providers, we want to enhance the field by offering a service that makes the selection of childcare a more informed and efficient process".
As odd as it may sound, the click training video in the field of dog training is not exactly for the dog; it's for the dog trainer. Obviously, the dog won't pop the video into the player and take down notes. This instructional material is for the trainers. And it is not limited to dog trainers too; pet trainers, exotic animal trainers and wild animal trainers can also benefit from watching a click training video.
Click training is said to be the gentlest for of obedience training. It works primarily on the concept of operant conditioning -- somewhat akin to the original work done by the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov at the turn of the 1900. In a nutshell, operant conditioning is when a stimulus is gradually introduced to an animal; later on that animal associates it with something either good or bad, and will perform accordingly.
The same principle can clearly be seen in each and every click training video. We will site dog training as an example. A command is usually given verbally to the dog. When the dog makes a small gesture that is almost the same as what the trainer wants it to do, it is given a treat (usually, a small piece of chopped food) plus a click from the clicker. As the training progresses, the dog soon associates one specific action on his part to receiving one treat and one click. Soon the dog associates the sound of the click as something positive and will perform one action accordingly.
Click training may sound like an easy way of training animals. That is true to some extent. Some pet owners can practice this form of training while walking their dogs or watching TV or simply spending time grooming their pets. In some reports, a dog can learn new behavior in less than 15 minutes of training.
However, training is a process. And sometimes, it takes more than just clicking and giving a dog a treat to make it learn a new behavior. That is the reason why many people opt to watch at least one click training video before subjecting themselves or their pets to training. An ill-advised training is almost as bad as cruelty as a form of discipline. It will make learning quite painful to your pet, and it may lose further interest or enthusiasm in any future project you may want to try.
Of course, there are a lot of these said videos on the World Wide Web. It takes very little research to find one click training video that will be suitable for you and your pet. You should definitely find one that can cater to your specific trainee: a dog click training video for your dog for example.
There are even videos made for a more specific type of animal; for deaf dogs for example, there is light flash training where the clicker is substituted with a more favorable mechanical light source. There are also instructional videos regarding click training geared to help ease aggression from fearful animals (especially those that came from shelters or rescued from cruel conditions.) The principle of training, however, remains the same for all these various types of instructional videos.
Aside from videos geared specifically for the trainee, there are also those geared for a specific group of trainers. An example of which is a click training video for children under the age of 15 who wish to practice dog training with their pets.
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