A daycare or childcare refers to an institution that provides care and supervision to infants and young children in the absence of their legal parents. However, daycare can also be used in context to an...

A day care refers to an institution that provides supervision to infants and young children in the absence of their legal parents. In today's context, kindergarten is generally used to denote the first...

A crèche refers to a place where young children are cared for during the day in the absence of parents. It includes a wide age range of children from young babies upwards. Playgroup is an informal nursery...

Generally, a babysitter is a person who takes care of the children on a temporary basis when the parents are not at home. Nanny refers to a person who is employed to take care of the children on a regular...

Nanny refers to a person who is employed to take care of children in a household. A nanny is usually a trained woman. A maid is someone who is employed to assist domestic chores. A maid is always a woman.