Benefits of Home Childcare
                                                                      
                                                                 

                          What are the Benefits of Choosing In Home Care?

A family childcare provider continues the parents role of caregiver, nurturer, comforter, and first teacher. The provider is not just a babysitter. A sitter comes into your home for a few hours. You tell her what you want for your child. A family childcare provider welcomes you and your child into her home. She plans meals, schedules, and safety. She organizes the children's activities. She will appreciate your family values and child rearing practices. She is a professional and you can rely on her judgment. Working together as a team, you will 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 providers respect that.

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

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

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

Your child has the same caregiver all day, ever day. And there is one person who
              knows exactly what your child has done, eaten, etc. throughout the day.

A quality childcare home may cost more than some daycare centers, but the lower
             number of children, quality of care and consistency of the caregiver makes the
            difference in price more understandable.

The ratio of children per caregiver is much lower in a childcare home than at a
             daycare center. For example a daycare center may have 11 two year olds with
             one caregiver or 22 two year olds with two caregivers; A registered childcare
             home is allowed a maximum of 12 children and a least 6 of those must be
             school age. 

You and your child are treated as part of the family in a childcare home rather
              than being just another number in a large center.                      

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