| A | B |
|---|
| private home-based care | caring for one's child in one's own home |
| center-based care | caring for the child in a center outside of the home |
| child care center | a place where children have supervised group care and socializing experiences |
| family child care | an arrangement in which an individual uses his/her own home as a place to provide care for other people's children |
| head start | a program funded by the federal government and designed to prepare to children to start school; provides locally run child care to lower-imcome and disadvantaged children from birth to five years old |
| home-based care | caring for a child in the home |
| montessori | a group program that encourages young children to learn independently through the use of highly specialized materials |
| nanny | a person trained to provide child care and lives with the family or comes to the home daily |
| au-pair | a young person from another country who lives with a family and cares for their children, usually receiving room and borad plus a small salary |
| Smart Start | north carolina's nationally recognized and award-winning early childhood initiative designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed |
| stay-at-home parent | a parent who works at home taking care of the children |
| university- sponsored/laboratory school | a child care program on a university campus or at a high school where students work and observe as part of their class work |
| adult-child ratio | number of adults per number of children |
| cleanlienss of facility | cleanliness rating by Health Department or visual inspection |
| costs of child care | total cost for one or multiple children and additonal fees |
| discipline methods used | age-appropriate strateigies used to modify children; time-out, rewards, loss of privileges, sets limits, but does not use harsh punisthment |
| equipment and supplies | items needed to use with the children to run a center or keep a child |
| hours of operation | days of the week facility is open and start and stop times |
| personal qualities of caregivers | characteristices that are valued in someone who cares for children--caring, patience, gentle demeanor, fairness, consistency and understanding stages of child development |
| training and education of staff | staff development and learning programs for workers in a center |
| transportation provided | some programs pick up and deliver back home the children who attend their facility |
