The Childcare Answer Book

This is an easy to understand book with lots of helpful information. I give it 2 thumbs up.

The Childcare Answer Book is a straightforward, easy-to-use guide written especially for parents confronting a wide array of childcare choices. Chapters discuss how to calculate a cost/benefit analysis, various childcare alternatives from preschools and day care centers to nannies, au pairs and babysitters, how to evaluate out-of-home care, employment issues for hiring childcare professionals, helping one's child adjust, how to handle difficulties in childcare relationships including harmful or abusive situations, specific issues for special needs children or work-at-home parents, and much more. Appendices provide lists of references concerning state childcare licensing offices, child care resource and referral agencies, websites, and sample forms. An index for quick and easy reference rounds out this plain-terms practical guide, highly recommended for parents everywhere.