The Marazon Family Child Care System is a concrete planning and assessment system for family childcare providers that enables providers to focus on specific areas of children's development. As they do, they begin to see children's giftedness, interests, and needs. They come to know each child in new and deeper ways. Perhaps most important of all, they learn how to support, challenge, and defend the value of play and appropriate practice. Every step of The System requires little more than a few simple pen strokes. Yet, when The System is put into practice, family providers have a blueprint for how they planned for, supported, and challenged children across all areas of their development, enabling them to celebrate children and always expect their best!