| Introduction.
Part I: Getting Started: Choosing Childcare 101.
Chapter 1: Getting a Bird’s-Eye View of What’s Involved.
Chapter 2: What’s on the Menu? Understanding Your Child-Care Options.
Chapter 3: Ages and Stages: Making Childcare Work for Your Child and Your Family.
Chapter 4: Adding Up Your Dollars and Sense.
Chapter 5: Playing Day-Care Detective: Investigating the Quality of Care.
Part II: Out-of-Home Childcare: Evaluating the Big Three.
Chapter 6: Evaluating a Day-Care Center.
Chapter 7: Sizing Up a Family Day Care.
Chapter 8: Figuring Out Where Nursery Schools and Preschools Fit In.
Part III: In-Home Childcare: Deciding Whether Nanny or Uncle Danny Can Do the Job.
Chapter 9: Searching for an In-Home Caregiver: Mary Poppins, Where Are You.
Chapter 10: All in the Family: Hiring a Relative to Do the Job.
Chapter 11: Me? An Employer?: Hiring Domestic Employees.
Part IV: Wanted: Part-Time and Occasional Childcare.
Chapter 12: When Plan A Fails: Having a Backup in Place.
Chapter 13: Not Workin’ 9 to 5: Childcare during Offbeat Hours.
Chapter 14: The Baby-Sitters’ Club: Finding a Teenage Sitter.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 15: Ten Tips on Easing Your Child into a New Child-Care Arrangement.
Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Feel Connected to Your Child’s Day-Care “Family”.
Chapter 17: Ten Signs That Your Child-Care Arrangement Is in Trouble.
Chapter 18: Ten Child-Care Resources and Organizations.
Index.
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