day care

Parents have two options when choosing day care for their kids: commercial day care and home care (in someone's home). Both should be investigated carefully before enrolling your kid(s). Ask questions of the staff; talk to parents of other children at the center; look over the center carefully; and ask plenty of questions.

The headline was wrong. The source of the mistake is the latest development of a $200 million study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Since 1991, a team of researchers has been tracking more than 1,300 children, following them from infancy through various child-care settings (home with parent, home with another relative, home with nanny, or at day care) and/or in elementary school.