Dads today are probably more like Homer Simpson than Ward Cleaver. But fathers do more around the house and are far more …
childcare
Study: Childcare More Expensive Than College, Annual Food Bill
The cost of center-based childcare for infants has risen twice as fast as median income for families over the past decade.
A morning in the head of a working mom
12:01 a.m.: Lie awake fretting over childcare and work. Baby sitter has selfishly selected friend’s funeral over feeding my child chicken cutlets. Weekly newsmagazine selfishly refuses to move publication date in order to accommodate childcare implosion. Husband selfishly unavailable to pinch hit, due to existence of own career. What to …
Working parents must report bad nannies
Just read this forum on WSJ.com in which a working mother says she reported what she saw as the troubling behavior of someone else’s nanny. The woman, who says she works in a building with a large common space where nannies and their charges often gather, noticed one pair in particular:
As I watched, the nanny ignored the child, a
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