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9 childcare tips parents often learn the hard way, and how to make them easier

You’ll understand childcare tips the first time a labeled water bottle vanishes or a nap schedule derails after a long weekend, you realize child care is its own ecosystem. There are policies, ratios ...

Why Does Child Care Seem Less Affordable Than Ever?

By far the largest expense for child care providers is wages. The work is labor-intensive, with strict limits set by state governments on the number of children each worker can care for. Pay is the ...
Center for American Progress

A Path Forward on Child Care Regulation: Differentiating Between Harmful Deregulation and Helpful Reform

“The teachers are already bogged down as it is … My son is incredibly smart, but he needs one-on-one attention. And if there are forty kids in the class, is he ever going to get that? If he’s having ...
The Conversation

Kids in child care need healthy movement — and guidelines can improve their health

Sophie M Phillips is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Trish Tucker receives funding from the Canada Foundation of Innovation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, ...