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

As working moms, we rely on child care for so much more than convenience. Reliable, quality child care is part of the support system that allows us to go to work, focus on… Read more: Daycare Red Flags: 10 Warning Signs Working Moms Should Know

I still remember how overwhelming it felt when I first started searching for child care for my infant son. I was already in my third trimester—which, as I quickly discovered, was later than… Read more: How to Find Child Care: A Step-by-Step Guide for Working Moms

Congratulations, mama! You’re growing a whole new person while somehow continuing to manage work, appointments, your household, and everything else life is throwing at you. And somewhere on that already-long pregnancy to-do list… Read more: How Soon Is Too Soon? When and How to Start Searching for Child Care

For many working moms—especially those of us who work outside the home—child care becomes a huge part of our family’s everyday life. Our kids may spend eight, nine, or even ten hours a… Read more: High-Quality Child Care: 5 Reasons Quality Matters

Finding the right child care for our kids can feel like one more huge decision on an already overflowing working-mom to-do list. We’re not just looking for somewhere convenient to drop our children… Read more: Choosing Child Care: Home-Based vs. Center-Based Child Care

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases made through paid links in this post. Sending our kids to daycare or preschool for the first time can be a huge transition—and not… Read more: 8 Best Books to Prepare Your Child for Daycare or Preschool

I still remember the pit in my stomach the first day I dropped my son off at daycare and headed to work. He was 13 months old, and leaving him felt like I… Read more: How to Transition Your Baby to Daycare: 7 Tips for Working Moms

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