Develop a curriculum for your family child care program that incorporates best practices and activities appropriate for the mixed ages of children in your care. This hands-on infant, toddler, and preschool resource reflects the reality of your needs, setting, and resources as a family child care provider. Each age-specific unit includes information on: developmental domains and milestones learning areas age-appropriate activities and outcomes daily schedules letters to families Enhance your family child care program and maintain good documentation with the Developmental Milestones Observational Records, a tool that can be used to add consistency and validity to children's records. This assessment tool corresponds to the developmental milestone charts found in Family Child Care Curriculum. Family Child Care Curriculum discusses topics such as learning and brain development, reading with children, the importance of play, water and product safety, food allergies, emergency evacuations, and ideas for activities and games.