It is a frustrating fact that even as childcare costs soar so high they’ll give you vertigo, childcare workers are often making poverty wages. Which obviously isn’t helping improve the childcare provided.
Another day, another study about the often unbearable costs of childcare in America.
The national conversation over paid parental leave is gathering steam, becoming a go-to political talking point and a popular benefit for techie companies looking to attract recruits with splashy benefits. Meanwhile, however, another family-friendly perk—on-site daycare—is rare, and growing even more so.
It’s a well-known fact that daycare is a financial drain on working parents; despite the often low pay of daycare workers, the cost of tuition and enrollment fees can easily run thousands of dollars a year. Now, new research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that in nearly half of the United States, full-time…
Like many parents, Amber Scorah tried to blot out worst-case scenarios when she dropped off her three-month-old son Karl for the first time at a well-regarded daycare in SoHo. She wasn’t ready to outsource his care to strangers—what if something happened? But the caregiver assured her the worst thing that could happen…
The first rule of Baby Fight Club is: You do not put videos of your Baby Fight Club on Snapchat. If you break that [incredibly important] rule of Baby Fight Club, you will probably be fired from your job and charged with “endangering the welfare of a child.” This is, for the most part, what happened to two New Jersey…
Two former staff members of a New Jersey children’s day care center have been accused of encouraging young children to engage in physical brawls with each other. The incidents, which happened under the supervision of 22-year-old Erica Kenny and 28-year-old Chanese White at Lightbridge Academy, were also posted on…
The Happiness is a Learning Center day care in Vinita, Oklahoma was forced to immediately shutter its doors after two of its students were badly sunburnt.
Orange County (Florida) authorities are a bit perplexed after an incident at a local day care left a mother fuming and her 4-year-old child by himself, locked inside the facility in the middle of the night.
In 1975, most American families had a dad bringing in the money and a mom taking care of the home. Today — as you may know from the repetitive wails of many a conservative pundit — only one in five fit that model. Around two-thirds of mothers of young children now work outside the home, and about 8.2 million kids —…
At a daycare center that is apparently owned and operated by George Bluth, Sr., three workers allegedly videotaped a fight between the toddlers in their care, thus creating their very own, real-life version of "Boy Fights," which, as it turns out, isn't very funny without Ron Howard's sardonic narration.
The first two years of being a parent were very hard. Did I say hard? I meant challenging. Did I say challenging? I meant rewarding. Did I say rewarding? I meant fun.
For rookie parents like myself, whether or not to put your kid in daycare brings up a host of hand-wringing questions: Is it OK to hate anyone who can afford a nanny? Will daycare teachers treat my child better if she's clearly more attractive than the other gargoyles? Will they be as good at breastfeeding as me?
The state of Colorado has proposed a long list of new regulations for day care centers, including a requirement that they provide dolls of at least three different races. Childcare providers aren't pleased.
Last night's episode of 16 & Pregnant took place in Asheville, NC, where teen mom Jamie was provided with free transportation for her infant as well as free on-campus daycare at her public high school. Free for Jamie that is. According to the North Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy…
• Five "bikini baristas" have been arrested in Washington after they allowed customers to grope them, for a fee. Detectives investigated the coffee stand for two months, during which they also saw baristas lick whipped cream off each other. •
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The suspect in a knife attack at a Belgian day care center on Friday was dressed as The Joker and may have been inspired by the one-year anniversary of Heath Ledger's death.
Here is a heroic story to start off the weekend: Louise Zoller, mom of two, was picking up her children from daycare when she walked in on a man with a gun who was searching for his estranged wife, a daycare worker. The children and the teacher were huddled together in a bathroom and instead of freaking out when the…
