Childcare and Working Parents

Working parents share advice about managing kids and childcare options. Whether working in the city, freelance or full-time, here are popular questions answered.

Commuting Into Manhattan for Daycare

Details: Parent Category: Advice - Childcare and Education; Category: Childcare Advice, Childcare and Working Parents

Stay local for childcare, or take the kids on the subway? Here are some words of experience.

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The PSP Guide to Securing Backup/ Emergency/ Last Minute Childcare

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Uh oh. You’ve found yourself needing unexpected childcare. Maybe your nanny or babysitter has just called in sick or you are a freelancer and a job just came in at short notice. Or something else has come up and you find yourself needing a babysitter. What can you do?

Daycare for Parents Who Work Late

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What to do if you work past 6 p.m.

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How to handle a sick kid and childcare

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Coughs and sniffles, fevers and colds. Your kid is sick and how do you determine when they are too sick to go to daycare with a nasty cold or another common bug? How do you handle back-up childcare if you have to miss multiple days of work? How do you negotiate which partner stays home, especially when one or both partners has the kind of job that can't really be done from home?

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Can working parents realistically pick up their children from daycare/preschool at 6pm?

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A PSP member asks the group how working parents can realistically pick up children from daycare by 6pm. Members share their experiences of how they manage busy work schedules with strict pick up times.

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