This paper aims to analyse the opportunities of the child interaction in day care centers in a medium size town in the State of São Paulo/Brazil We have elaborated and used one regulation of semi-strucutred interviews directed to two caretaker (caregivers) that have been working in two day care centers for more than ten years, in order to know the educational proposal and activities routine. We have adopted the educational relationship as the axix to identify the educational actions that occur or could occur among children and educators. The results show that it is necessary to review the subject worked with the children, the way it is employed and to consider the caretaker professional profile in the dayle activities routine. Relfections about the structure and running of the day care center related to the possibility of stimulating the child development have been proposed in this context.
day care center; caretaker ou caregiver; educational pratices; child development
