• How to Find Home-Based Daycare
• Advice about Starting Childcare
• Childcare close to Work or Home?
• How Much Does it Cost?
• When to Start Looking for Childcare
• Child's Trouble Adapting to Daycare

Comparisons

• Home-Based Daycare vs. Childcare Center
• Home-Based Daycare vs. Nanny
• Home-based Daycare vs. Preschool

• Changing to a Different Daycare
• Changing from a Nanny to a Home-Based Daycare
• Changing from In-Home Care to Preschool

Did I Pick the Wrong Daycare? ... Concerns about Staff ...
Child Unhappy at Daycare ... Communication Problems ... License Violations ... More

Communication ... Contracts ... Holidays & Sick Days ...
Handwashing ... Naps ... Diapering ... More

• About Childcare Licensing
• Community Care Licensing Division (State of California website)

• Bananas N. Alameda County
• 4c-alameda.org S. Alameda County
• www.cocokids.org Contra Costa Child Care Council

• Nannies
• Pre-Schools
• More advice about Childcare