Title: What is Family Child Care? Your Guide to Home-based Early Education
Headings: What Is family child care?
What Is family child care?
How family child care works
Why so many names?
The benefits of family child care
Is family child care right for me?
Choosing the best care for your child

Content: At Wonderschool, we expect providers to stay in compliance with their state licensing requirements whether they are a family child care program or center-based program. You can read more about the Wonderschool Quality and Safety Vision here. Why so many names? Because family child care programs are regulated by each individual state, there are many different legal and colloquial terms for them. For example, there’s…
In-home preschool
In-home daycare
Home daycare
Group family daycare
Family daycare
Home preschool
…and more. At Wonderschool, we refer to home-based child care programs as family child care. “ Family child care” includes both infant and toddler programs as well as programs for preschool-aged children, school-aged children, or mixed age programs. In the end, all of these different terms do refer to the same overarching idea of a caregiver providing early care and education to young children in their home. The benefits of family child care
Caregivers that choose this path are extremely dedicated to providing the best possible care for you and your child. Because care happens in their home, there’s low staff turnover.