Finding child care can be overwhelming and stressful. Our interactive and smartphone friendly checklist can help.

The Choosing Child Care Checklist lets you record what aspects of child care are more important to you and your family so you can make this decision as an educated consumer.

The Checklist includes questions you can ask the program director or the teachers and lists other things you can observe as you visit each program. Record your answers on the Checklist. Use the results to compare the programs to each other.

If you find some of the answers difficult to understand, visit the Child Care Aware website at www.childcareaware.org. Find your local Child Care Aware office here.