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America Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Child Care

Child care is finally getting widespread attention, but we have yet to answer the essential questions: what is child care and who is it for?

Elliot Haspel·Oct 17, 2024·5 min read

I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect child care to be a major flashpoint in the 2024 election cycle. There are...

The Children’s Agenda: What a Harris-Walz Administration Could Mean For Families

Bryce Covert·Sep 10, 2024·8 min read

Just one day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala...

‘Music Zoo’ Gives Preschoolers an Up Close and Personal Experience of Music-Making

K.C. Compton·Aug 7, 2024·5 min read

When University of Arkansas student Jackson Joyce took his saxophone to the Jean Tyson Child Development Center one late spring...

Stress Hormones In Preschoolers Improve With Emotional Knowledge, Study Indicates

K.C. Compton·Aug 6, 2024·7 min read

Picture this: a 3-year-old in a preschool classroom is playing with a popular toy when a classmate asks if they...

Child Care Down on the Farm

Elliot Haspel·Aug 1, 2024·5 min read

The child care movement needs a broad base of support in order to win an effective, publicly-funded system. Now, a new research paper is opening another door by showing how child care is impacting that most respected of American icons: farmers.

Where Should Women Channel Their Ambition?

Samhita Mukhopadhyay on The Myth of Making It in a World Set Up For Women to Fail

Haley Swenson·Jul 25, 2024·10 min read

Four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shook U.S. workplaces and its child care systems, parents continue to engage in vital...

Helping Children Make Sense of Their World through Science

K.C. Compton·Jul 23, 2024·8 min read

A recent report by a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee declared the need to promote science, technology,...

Diapers are Missing from the Safety Net. American Families are Paying the Price.

Elise Anderson·Jul 16, 2024·9 min read

Did you know that infants require up to 12 diapers per day? Did you also know this can cost families...

Elliot’s Provocations: Care is No Ordinary Good

Elliot Haspel·Jul 3, 2024·6 min read

A recent column by the popular center-left writer Matt Yglesias reinforced for me yet again why we need a different foundation for our care arguments.

If Only Child Care Costs Were Transparent, Searches Would Be Simpler and Easier

Why Aren’t They?

Haley Swenson·Jun 27, 2024·10 min read

In the midst of my search for a new child care provider for my one-year-old, I’ve braced myself for the...

Book Review: How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World’s Happiest Children

K.C. Compton·Jun 26, 2024·6 min read

While Helen Russell’s clever, well-researched exploration of the parenting culture of Denmark and other Nordic countries might not fully map onto the experience of most families in the U.S. or U.K. (Russell’s original home), it offers refreshing insights that can help parents relax a bit, give themselves heaps of grace and have much more fun raising their family.

Elliot’s Provocations: Summertime, Summertime (Child Care) Sadness

Elliot Haspel·Jun 6, 2024·4 min read

I wrote last year about the strange schism between early child care and school-aged child care, and I don’t want to belabor the point other than to say parents of school-aged children represent a shockingly untapped care constituency. Instead, I want to talk about summer care, and summer camp specifically.

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