About the book

More than location, license, cost & class size 

  “CREATIVE CHILD CARE in my lovely
Green Hills home . . .” In 1975, Jean Byler McCracken placed this brief classified ad to run for one day in Nashville’s afternoon paper. She received forty-three calls from very
interested parents, proving what she had suspected from experience: A lot of parents were scrambling to find
better child care. At first, her home-based day care served four children, but the relentless demand for her services called for something more. Within months, she relocated and developed one of the leading child care programs in her community, where she served for nearly three decades.    

IF YOU ARE LIKE hundreds of parents who talked with Jean McCracken in her child care center office—or the thousands more she had to turn away on the phone due to a lack of available space—then you may find your search for appropriate child care one of the most difficult things you’ve ever faced.

You know there’s more to your day care decision than location, cost, class size, and a license to operate. The usual checklist is an important starting point, but what are the deeper quality indicators? To achieve peace of mind about the decisions involved, you need a seasoned expert to share inside information—you need secrets to finding day care you can trust.   

IMAGINE YOURSELF RELAXING for an hour-long Q&A over coffee with a leading child care provider. What would you ask her? How valuable would that counsel be for your family as you begin your search for child care?

In Peace with Child Care, veteran child care provider and author Jean McCracken goes much deeper about all you’re facing than she ever could with parents on the phone or even during hour-long armchair discussions in her office.

Jean McCracken has poured twenty-seven years of experience onto the pages of Peace with Child Care and provides the answers you need to begin feeling reassured rather than overwhelmed. 

In Peace with Child Care, she helps you

· discern what distinguishes higher-quality child care programs from the ones parents ought to be unsettled about;

· influence the best care you find to become even better for your child;

· understand why she says, “What your child needs most in day care is free”;

· And more.

Read About Jean McCracken, author of Peace with Child Care...