Have you spent weeks—or even months—researching child care centers, scheduling tours, making phone calls, comparing prices, and joining waitlist after waitlist…only to realize you still don’t have child care? Maybe you finally find… Read more: Why Is It So Hard to Find Child Care? A Working Mom’s Guide to Navigating the Child Care Crisis

Are child care enrichment programs worth it? Discover the benefits of electives like STEM, sports, art, and languages—and what working moms should consider before making them a priority when choosing child care.

When you’re searching for a preschool, there are probably a dozen things running through your mind. Is it safe? Is it affordable? Is the location convenient? Will the hours work with your job?… Read more: Preschool Teacher Qualifications: What Working Moms Should Look for When Choosing Child Care

Maybe your child is safe at daycare. They seem happy enough. You don’t have any major complaints about the teachers, and there isn’t one glaring problem you can point to. But you still… Read more: 7 Reasons to Switch Daycares—Even If Nothing Is Seriously Wrong

Choosing child care is one of those decisions that can feel enormous when you’re a working mom. We research centers, read reviews, tour classrooms, compare tuition, ask other parents for recommendations, and try… Read more: 5 Serious Signs It May Be Time to Switch Daycares

If you’ve started looking into childcare, you may have noticed that there are a lot of different terms being thrown around. Daycare. Preschool. Pre-K. When I first started navigating childcare, I wasn’t entirely… Read more: Daycare, Preschool, and Pre-K: A Working Mom’s Guide to Child Care Options

If you’ve recently started searching for daycare or preschool, you’ve probably come across terms like Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, or HighScope. When I first started looking at child care, I honestly didn’t pay… Read more: A Guide To Early Childhood Education Philosophies For Working Moms: Montessori, Reggio Emilia, HighScope & More

If you’re expecting a baby, there’s a good chance daycare is already somewhere on your mental to-do list—even if your due date still feels far away. Maybe you know you’ll be returning to… Read more: Daycare Tips for Working Moms: 8 Things to Know Before You Start Looking

Finding the right daycare is one of those tasks that can quickly become another full-time job when you’re already a working mom—or preparing to become one. You research programs, compare tuition, read reviews,… Read more: Daycare Tour Tips for Working Moms: Questions, Red Flags & What to Expect

Nowadays, working mothers make up a huge percentage of the labor force in the United States and around the world. We are CEOs, C-suite executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, and household names.  For us… Read more: Red flags to look out when searching for daycares

I remember how overwhelming it was when I first started searching for daycares for my infant son. I was into my third trimester (too late to start searching), it was my first child,… Read more: A step-by-step approach to searching for and finding the right daycare

Congratulations, mama! You’re doing the hard work of nurturing, feeding, and housing a brand new addition to your family and to the world. Right now, you might be basking in the new mama… Read more: How soon is too soon? When and how to start searching for daycares

For many working moms, especially those who work outside the home, sending our kids to daycare is the norm. But with so many childcare options available, how we do choose the right one?… Read more: Choosing a daycare: why quality matters so much

Finding the right daycare for our children can be a daunting experience. We want to make sure we’re choosing the best setting for our kids and our families. After all, there’s a lot… Read more: Home-based versus center-based daycare: a pros and cons comparison

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases on paid links in this post. Transitioning our kids from home to daycare or preschool for the first time is an understandably emotional experience… Read more: 8 books to help our kids transition to daycare or preschool

I remember the pit I felt in my stomach the first day I dropped my son off at daycare and went back to work. It felt like I had cut my right arm… Read more: 7 things that helped make the transition from home to daycare easier

Choosing a daycare or preschool for our little ones is a big decision. We want to make sure we are choosing a setting that is safe, developmentally appropriate, and high-quality so that we… Read more: 15 important things to consider when choosing a daycare or preschool

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases on paid links in this post. When the time comes for us to send our kids to daycare, there may be a thousand questions… Read more: Daycare prep: Everything I packed to get my toddler ready for daycare

Having a toddler in daycare has its ups and downs. On the one hand, my son learns how to be independent, learns kindergarten skills, and benefits socially and emotionally. On the other hand,… Read more: 10 Things You Should Have In Your Medicine Cabinet To Prepare For Daycare

If you’re a new mom who’s about to go back to work, you’ve probably been spending a lot of time researching childcare facilities and fretting about the though of sending your brand new… Read more: 8 Good Things About Sending Your Child To Daycare

Sending big hugs to all the working moms who are about to enroll (or recently enrolled) their babies into daycare. It can be a rough time on all fronts – emotionally, mentally, and… Read more: Surviving Daycare Syndrome: 7 Tips For Dealing With Constant Sickness During The Daycare transition