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Welcome to The Anxious Parents' Web Site
A Quality Resource for Parents, Corporations and Childcare Professionals Seeking Information and Advice on Finding and Keeping Quality Childcare. |
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BABY GENIUSES? Childcare & Infant Brain Development | |||
What are the different types of childcare? You have a lot of choices! Read these helpful definitions and you'll know them! |
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What
are working parents' really thinking about while they are rushing to work,
returning e-mails, answering phones, helping customers, attending
meetings and writing unending memos? As working parents,
the issues that really occupy their hearts and minds are childcare and
what’s going on with their kids. Concerns about their children and
childcare situation are a constant backdrop to the rush of their business
day. And if you are not a working parent worrying about your own children,
you are the manager, thinking about your employees and how their childcare concerns are
impacting job performance and the bottom line.
Studies have shown that in
84% of families with two parents, both work; for single parent homes, the
statistics are higher. Moreover, 45% of children under the
age of one year are in childcare while the numbers rise to 62% of all
children six years old and younger.
This website is a resource for working parents, their employers and childcare professionals. It provides important and useful information about childcare options and search resources, excerpts from The Anxious Parents' Guide to Quality Childcare (the one of the best childcare guides on the market today), an informative article on what parents can expect from a quality childcare provider, additional recommended readings on parenting issues and links to other websites of interest to the anxious parent. The Anxious Parents’ Guide to
Quality Childcare offers
realistic step-by-step advice to help parents seeking to make Michelle Ehrich,
the author, is a working mother
of two boys.
She worked in banking and investment banking for sixteen years, seven of
which as a working parent. During that time, she was able to find and keep
two high-quality and loving caregivers for her children, first in a family
day-care arrangement and then with a live-in nanny. Moreover, both were
productive long-term arrangements. When Ehrich realized that many of her
friends and colleagues were having considerable difficulty with their own
childcare situations, it led her to examine the reasons for the successes
that she and others did have, as well as the possible causes for her
friends' problems. The result of this process is
The Anxious Parents'
Guide to Quality Childcare. FEEDBACK - Tell me what you are thinking about childcare and your ideas to improve this website. |
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"10 Things to Expect from Your Childcare Provider" Read this informative article on a topic every parent should understand. | |||
| What
are the Types of Search Resources Available to Help You Find
Childcare? Using the "right" resource will make your
search more efficient and productive. |
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Recommended Readings and Items for Anxious Parents and their kids These are my "top picks". I believe these items are truly EXCELLENT - for parents, for children, for fun and for information. | |||
| The VERY Best Links to other Childcare and Related Websites | ![]() |
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I am grateful and proud to note that The Anxious Parents' Web Site has received awards and recognition from the following organizations:
This Web site is provided and created by Michelle Ehrich, author of The Anxious Parents' Guide to Quality Childcare (Perigee/Penguin Putnam, 1999).