The child develops physically and mentally (Zinsmeister 1). Children who attend daycare lack physical coordination and play less actively. Hand-eye coordination was also less developed in most children. When a child attends daycare, they have a continuous routine every single day. This continuous routine does not encourage the child's need for independent development. Children raised at home have been shown to have more independence. Furthermore, with fewer capacities for independence, they tended to develop more slowly into adulthood than children raised at home (Sjolund