About.com’s Child Day Care Center
section provides information on a
lot of topics related to child day
care centers and child care
facilities such as ways to
effectively communicate with child
care providers and teachers,
questions to ask potential child
care providers, parenting tips on
child safety and welfare in child
care centers, tips on how to help
kids thrive and enjoy going to day
care centers and schools, preschool
programs, and other useful
information.
Baby Center’s
child day care section provides
information on how to find the right
day care facilities for your child.
The site offers answers to commonly
asked questions on child day care
such as: licensing of child day care
centers; what are the advantages and
disadvantages of child day care
centers; how to find child day care
centers within your location; how
much child day care centers cost;
what are signs of a good (or bad) child day
care center; and how
to make child day care center
arrangements work with your family.
FamilyDoctor.org’s child day care
section provides practical tips on
how to choose a day care center. The site
provides information on: what a
parent should
look for in choosing a day care
center; the importance of the child
to staff ratio; finding out about
the child day care center’s
policies; how the day care center
handles sick children; does the day
care center have staff training;
safety measures to look into
concerning day care center
facilities; and signs to look for
regarding day care center problems
or issues.
NRC is located at the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center in
Denver, Colorado, and is funded by
the Maternal and Child Health
Bureau, US Department of Health &
Human Services, HRSA. The NRC's
primary mission is to promote health
and safety in out-of-home child care
settings throughout the nation. The
site provides information on various
child care and child day care
matters, resources on child care for
parents and providers, state
licensing and regulation for day
care centers, and other child day
care matters.
Each KinderCare Center creates an
environment where children are safe,
nurtured, loved and encouraged to
learn. KinderCare has become the
leading private provider of early
childhood education and care in the
United States.
KinderCare was founded in 1969 and
now operates over 1,250 centers,
serving more than 120,000 children
between the ages of 6 weeks and 12
years. The site provides a local
center locator within your vicinity.
Knowledge Learning Corporation (KLC)
is the leader and preferred
childcare provider in early
childhood through school age
education. Since 1983, KLC has grown
into a family of nearly 2,000
community-based centers, 650
before-and-after school programs,
and 123 employer-sponsored child
care centers in 39 states and the
District of Columbia. KLC’s child
care center programs are based on
the guidelines of the National
Association for the Education of
Young Children.
La Petite Academy is a place where
young children come to grow, learn,
and develop. At over 600 child day
care centers across the US, La Petite Academy offers a range of programs for a variety
of ages—from infants to toddlers,
two year olds to preschoolers, and
kindergarteners to school-age kids
who come to La Petite before and
after school.
Established in 1988, the Tutor Time
Child Care/Learning Centers network
is comprised of over 60 corporate
and 130 franchise centers throughout
the US, Hong Kong, Indonesia and the
Philippines. A leader in early
childhood education, over 26,000
students benefit from Tutor Time’s
award-winning care. Tutor Time is a
subsidiary of Learning Care Group,
Inc., one of the largest publicly
traded, for-profit providers of
early childhood care and educational
services in the US.
Daycare.com has state-by-state child
day care center listings and contact
information. The site also contains
articles and information on various
topics related to child day care
tips, child care, child safety,
children’s health, and other useful
information to parents and day care
providers.
Founded in 1967 as a division of
Gerber Products Corporation,
Childtime Learning Centers, Inc. has
grown to a network of over 260 child
care centers. Childtime offers child
care, preschool, kindergarten and
school age education services to
children, infancy through 12 years.
Currently, Childtime has over 30,000
children enrolled (full and
part-time) nationwide. The children
are cared for and educated by 5,500
dedicated Center Directors and
staff. Included in ChildTime’s
network of child development centers
are a number of at-work centers
operated in hospitals, corporations,
government and office parks.
