Category: Childcare

With many parents returning to the office regularly this year and children returning to school, home life has largely returned to its normal, hectic state. […]

Most parents yell at their children from time to time. Sometimes this is out of frustration, and sometimes the instinct in the moment is to […]

When children are little, we tell them that they are good at everything, whether it’s a picture they drew or attempting a somersault in the […]

Children’s birthday parties can be too expensive. I know it’s not exactly hot – we’ve all been to cool clown parties and petting zoos – […]

A child’s bedroom doesn’t have to be scary, but sometimes a strange sound or unusual shadow can overwhelm a child’s imagination, leading to insomnia, anxiety, […]

It always seems to happen at the most inopportune moment: our children start playing pranks as soon as the situation gets tense or busy. And […]

The season is here: mailboxes are filling with letters from children to the cheerful bearded toymaker and reindeer herders, and we are frantically shopping for […]

If you have children and don’t have family members nearby who would demand to take them out of your hands from time to time, you […]

The school is about to reopen, which means working families are struggling to find childcare to fill the gap between school and work hours. But […]

In every parent’s life there is a moment (or several moments) that they would like to return. It can be as simple as the first […]

Finding a good kindergarten is difficult. Cost that can be equivalent to paying off a second mortgage every month; waiting lists, which for some centers […]

As the world continues to open up again, parents’ phones everywhere are lit up with invitations from their children’s friends for a little old-fashioned fun, […]

This is a question that every parent will ask at some point: “What is the stake in a good nanny these days?” But despite the […]

When I was about 12 years old, I started to look after a couple of children from time to time who lived across the street […]

This will be a year for unique childcare solutions as our children spend most (or all) of their time learning outside the classroom, even as […]

It can be hard to figure out who to let in your family’s little physically distant bubble right now, but as businesses reopen and more […]

For many children, traditional summer camps are simply not relevant this year. And as we say goodbye to the home school schedule we’ve been holding […]

How is this simultaneous “work from home” and “parenting” going? Wouldn’t it be great if you could just, you know, get a little help from […]

Co-parenting with an ex can be challenging during normal times; Parenting together, when the very transfer of your children could mean for them (or you) […]

Every year, UrbanSitter publishes the results of its study of over 25,000 families in the United States, which helps determine the average hourly childcare rate […]