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Benefits of Sending Your Child to a Child Care Center
Are you wondering if a day care provider is the right decision for your little one?
How to End the Child-Care Crisis
A child’s first 1,000 days are a time to be seized.
Is child care stressing you out?
Finding quality, affordable care shouldn’t be a never-ending struggle. A national child care system is a better choice for children, families and the economy.
Video: Tips for choosing child care
There are several important factors a parent should consider when choosing a child care provider.
How To Find Help Paying For Child Care
Paying for child care can be one of the highest expenses a family can incur. The cost can range from 10% to 15% of a family’s total income. If you find it difficult to pay for quality, affordable care, there are resources available to help.
What to Expect from Toddler Child Care at a Montessori School
The Montessori experience differs from mainstream educational philosophies, and that's one of the keys to its success. By eliminating the mindless busy-work and allowing children to engage with all of their senses, Montessori toddler child care successfully allows kids to continue loving learning throughout their education. The Montessori philosoph...
Why the U.S. Has Long Resisted Universal Child Care
Americans still aren’t in agreement that mothers should work at all.
The Child Care Paradox: How To Help Build A Better System
Ask any parent of young children about their biggest expenses and child care is likely at the top of their list.
Top 3 Things That Parents Want From Their Child Care Provider
Over the years I have listened to parents tell me what they really want from a child care provider. In fact, if you listen closely; parents are telling you every day what they really want. Moreover…
How Much Does Child Care Really Cost? Don't Forget Lost Raises, Benefits
New parents are often stymied by the question of whether to stay home or to continue working while forking over a significant portion of their salaries to cover child care. Now, there's an interactive calculator for that.
How to Vet Child Care Centers
When you have a family, finding a job isn’t as easy as choosing whatever employer offers you the most cash. You have to take into account barriers to employment such as transportation and the alway…
Why Child Care Is the Economy's 'Invisible' Driver
Child care -- or the lack of affordable care options -- is a multi-layered economic issue that has wide-ranging repercussions for the U.S. and globally. But even as costs continue to go up, few concrete solutions are in sight.
Why the child care crisis is a national security issue
Neither party has a monopoly on good ideas for how to expand access to child care. The question now is whether they’ll have the compassion, wisdom, and political will to do so.
What Counts Towards the Child-Care Credit?
You can obtain a credit for certain child-care expenses but not others. Learn what counts and what doesn't in this article from expert contributor Julian Block.
Remote learning in fall raises child care concerns
Many parents will again be put in a position of assisting their children with online learning or seeking out child care.
Why is child care funding such a contentious topic?
American Families Plan proposes big boost to child care help, but experts have different ideas about what works
How Child Care Made Humans Smart
A new theory says looking after babies is linked to human intelligence
Tips on How to Choose Child Care for Your Child
Important advice for parents how to find and choose quality child care for your child with advice from Rainbow Child Care Center's education director.
10 Questions to Ask When Choosing Child Care
For your child’s well-being and your own peace of mind, it pays to be picky about day care.
How To Determine What Child Care Choice Is Right For You
Congrats! You had a baby! And now it’s time for you to transition back to work. It’s hard enough to mentally and logistically prepare for a new job of being a parent, but add in fears plus em…
Guide to Life: How to find good child care
For a new parent returning to work or a parent in need of summer care for older children, the task can be highly challenging. The range of options - for-
