Many working parents are often unsure what a good childcare center looks like. What exactly should kids being doing all day? In Podcast Episode 19 I talked with a working mom about how she made her daycare choice, but now I ask a provider, Kate from Community Children’s Center in Connecticut, about what makes childcare good. Should a center focus on early childhood education or on early childhood play, or, are those two things actually one and the same? Listen to find the answer to this question and many more.
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According to some statistics, as many as 70% of moms work outside of the home, whether full time or part time. Nearly 30% of babies with working moms use daycare specifically. Not all statistics are full proof, and I’m not sure I’d go around quoting those numbers as absolute fact, but they do mean child care is a big issue for American moms.
I stay at home with my daughter, so I am the opposite of an authority on this topic. Therefore, I talk with Lindsay, a working mother of one with another on the way, about her experiences with different kinds of childcare. I ask her about the decision to go back to work, about how she chose her daycare, and about what makes a daycare good, among other things.
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