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Starting Daycare: A Complete Parent's Guide to Choosing, Preparing, and Adapting
Daycare

Starting Daycare: A Complete Parent's Guide to Choosing, Preparing, and Adapting

Starting daycare is one of the bigger transitions of early childhood, and the parts that surprise most parents aren't the obvious ones. The first day...

9 min read
Returning to Work After Maternity or Paternity Leave: The Emotional Reality
Parenting

Returning to Work After Maternity or Paternity Leave: The Emotional Reality

The return to work after parental leave is a milestone that most parents approach with a mixture of feelings that are difficult to hold simultaneously...

4 min read
How to Play Together When Time Is Limited
Play

How to Play Together When Time Is Limited

A working parent who reads to their 3-year-old for ten focused minutes, phone in another room, eye-level on the rug, is doing more developmental good...

8 min read
Work-Life Balance for Parents of Young Children
Parenting

Work-Life Balance for Parents of Young Children

"Work-life balance" suggests a perfect equilibrium: eight hours work, eight hours family, eight hours sleep. But parenting young children and working...

6 min read
Why Quality Time Beats Quantity (And What Quality Actually Means)
Parenting

Why Quality Time Beats Quantity (And What Quality Actually Means)

The most common guilt parents bring into a pediatrician's office is some version of "I don't spend enough time with my kid." It's worth knowing how th...

5 min read
How to Combine Work and Childcare
Parenting

How to Combine Work and Childcare

US infant care averages around $1,500 per month, with wide regional swings — for many families, more than rent. Wait lists at good centers can run a y...

10 min read
How a Child Experiences a Mother's Absence
Emotions

How a Child Experiences a Mother's Absence

Working parents, parents who travel, parents who just need to use the bathroom — the question is the same. What does it actually feel like to my child...

4 min read
Evening and Weekend Childcare Options
Daycare

Evening and Weekend Childcare Options

The British childcare system is built around 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. If you are a nurse, a paramedic, a chef, a police officer, retail or hospit...

8 min read