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- Health and Safety PrintablesChildcare Provider Evaluation ChecklistThis checklist will help you ask the right questions when interviewing a potential childcare provider. ...
- Health and Safety PrintablesIn-Home Childcare Interview ChecklistThis checklist will help you ask the right questions when interviewing a potential in-home childcare provider. ...
- Adjusting to DaycareHelping Your Child Adjust to ChildcareHelping Your Child Adjust to Childcare Depending upon your family situation, your child may have no trouble at all getting used to a new childcare situation. On the other handparticularly if he or she is a certain age and has been home with you...
- General Safety PrintablesThe Babysitter BulletinKeep the babysitter fully informed. Record all emergency information and pertinent data on this printable page, and keep it handy. ...
- Choosing a DaycareChild Care Outside the HomeChild Care Outside the Home A full-time nanny or part-time sitter may not suit your particular needs or situation. You may not be able to afford in-home care. Or you may be unable to find anyone who meets your standards for in-home care. If, for...
- Hiring a Nanny/BabysitterIn-Home ChildcareIn-Home Childcare No matter how much you decide to work, you'll almost definitely be in the market for childcare. Once upon a time, grandparents, aunts, or cousins handled childcare for working parents. But fewer and fewer new parents today live...
- Abusive Childcare5 Warning Signs Your Child's Daycare Is Not Right for YouYou may think you've found the best daycare for your child, but are you sure? It's important to know what to look for in a quality daycare center, as well as signs that may indicate a potential problem. After all, if you can't be with your child ...Lindsay Hutton
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Family Education- Choosing a DaycareProtecting Your Child from Abuse in DaycareProtecting Your Child from Abuse in Daycare Watch Out! Never put your child in a day care facility or home that does not have an open-door policy for parents. You should not have to call first, and no areas that children have access to should be...
- Questions for Daycare ProvidersFinding a Safe Day Care CenterFinding a Safe Day Care Center Many parents assume that, because states license day care centers, these facilities are safe and don't need parental scrutiny. Wrong! Requirements vary from state to state. Some state codes are more stringent than ...
- Choosing a DaycareYour Family's Need for ChildcareYour Family's Need for Childcare Recent United States Census reports show that more than 8 million children under the age of five spend some part of their day in the care of someone other than their parents. Many of these parents had to make toug...
- Changing Childcare ProvidersTerminating the Childcare RelationshipTerminating the Childcare RelationshipAny number of circumstances may cause a family to decide to end its relationship with the childcare provider. The decision may not be because of a problem with the relationship. The family may decide to reloc...
- Relatives As Childcare ProvidersUsing Relatives as Childcare GiversUsing Relatives as Childcare GiversEven as recent as a couple of decades ago, members of extended families were likely to live in fairly close proximity to one another, making it easy to share the burden of caring for each other's children when n...
- Changing Childcare ProvidersTerminating the Childcare RelationshipTerminating the Childcare RelationshipAny number of circumstances may cause a family to decide to end its relationship with the childcare provider. The decision may not be because of a problem with the relationship. The family may decide to reloc...
- Provider-Parent RelationshipResolving Problems with the CaregiverResolving Problems with the CaregiverIf you do decide to secretly record, you need to check the laws of your state regarding the extent to which taping is legal. As a general rule, videotaping by hidden camera, without audio, is allowed in all st...
- Choosing a DaycareProtecting Your Child from Abuse in DaycareProtecting Your Child from Abuse in Daycare Watch Out! Never put your child in a day care facility or home that does not have an open-door policy for parents. You should not have to call first, and no areas that children have access to should be...
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- Childcare IssuesMonitoring the Childcare SituationMonitoring the Childcare SituationWhether or not your child seems comfortable with your childcare arrangement, it is necessary to keep tabs on the situation to ensure that it continues to be satisfactory. If your child is old enough to express hi...