NEW YORK — Only 10 percent of children receive “high quality” day care, says the National Institute of Child Health Development.
The median yearly salary for day care workers is less than $20,000. Day care is more expensive than rent for families in 22 states. These are the depressing — but not shocking — statistics writer Jonathan Cohn...
It was the laughter of children that lured Jennifer Shrodes, of North Ogden, out of the corporate world.
After being at a desk job as an escrow officer for 11 years, Shrodes was on the lookout for a new career when she hired the Tumblebus for her son’s seventh birthday party.
Shrodes loved watching the children enjoy themselves...
Child-care centers might not be providing kids enough opportunities to be physically active, finds a study that explored some of the obstacles.
The study, released this week in the journal Pediatrics, reports that about three-fourths of children in the U.S. age 3 to 5 are in child care, and 56 percent of them are in centers: nursery...
