A family childcare provider continues the parent's role of caregiver,
    nurturer, comforter, and first teacher.  The provider is not just a baby-
    sitter.  A sitter comes into your home for a few hours.  You tell her what
    you want for your child.  A family daycare provider welcomes you and your
    child into her home.  She decides about meals, schedules and safety.  She
    organizes the children's activities.  She may ask for you ideas.  She will
    appreciate your family values and child rearing practices.  She is a
    professional and you can rely on her judgement. Working together as a
    team, you provide the best for your child. The provider is not a substitute
    for you.  You are the most important person in your child's life and the
    provider respects that.


    Here are just a few of the advantages of home childcare:


  • Your child receives individual attention.

  • There is structure with more flexibility than in a center.

  • There is less illness because there are fewer people in and out,which means fewer
    germs are spread to your child.

  • Your child is well cared for and taught by a trained childcare professional who is
    usually a mother as well.

  • Children have the opportunity to play with and learn with others in a  much smaller
    group than in a center.

  • Your child has the same caregiver all day, every day.  There is only one person
    who knows exactly what you child has done, activities,
    eaten, ect. throughout the day.
      
  • You  and your child are treated as part of the family in a childcare home rather
    than just being another number in a large center.
                 
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