Basic Types Of Child Care-

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Private home-based care-

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Caring for one's child in one's own home.

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Center- based care-

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Caring for the child in a center outside of the home.

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Child care center-

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A place where children have supervised group care and socializing experiences.

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Employer- sponsored-

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Center located on or near the job site for employees' children.

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Family child care-

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An arrangement in which an indiviual uses or his/her own home as a place to provide care for other people's children.

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Head start-

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A program funded by the federal government and designed to prepare children to start school school; provides locally run child care to lower-income and disvantaged children from birth to five years old.

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Home-based care-

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Caring for a child in the home.

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Montessori-

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Group program that encourages young children to learn independently through the use of highly specialized materials.

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Nanny-

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Person trained to provide child care and lives with the family or comes to the home daily.

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Au- pair-

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Person who trained to provide child care and lives with a family and cares for their children, usually receiving room and board plus a small salary

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Smart start-

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North Carolina's nationally recognized and award- winning early childhood initaitve designed to ensure that young children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.

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Stay- at- home parent

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A parent who works at home taking care of the children.

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University sponsored/laboratory school-

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A child care program on a university campus or at a high school where stuidents work and observe as a part of their class work.