Recent Child Care Articles page 5

News.com.au - BRITNEY Spears spends 17 times more on going out than she does on her two children. The troubled singer - who lost custody of the two boys to her ex-husband Kevin Federline last month - spends only $6000 of her $737,868 monthly earnings on child care ...

MSNBC - The good news: Workers are calling in sick less often than they did just a decade ago. The bad news: Women are still absent nearly twice as often as their male counterparts in the work place. It’s been a perpetual problem in the worplace; women ...

Washington Post - ... migrate for many of the same reasons that men do -- to escape hardship, find better opportunities, provide for their families -- but also to do jobs men don't, such as those in the booming personal service sector, including domestic work, child care ...

Austin Daily Herald - Local shortage of child care, knowledge of brain development and belief in community investment have culminated into a learning center aimed at early success for young children. The city asked legislators from local districts and bonding committees ...

St. Cloud Times - More than 300 children and families from five St. Cloud-area child care centers are involved in a 13-week pilot program designed to improve their health. Children and parents in “Better Living: Exercise & Nutrition Daily,” or BLEND, will receive ...

Meridian Booster - An NDP promise to increase the number of child-care spaces may do little for parents in Lloydminster, where lack of cross-border collaboration stands in the way of accessing better child care services. On Tuesday, the NDP announced they would create ...

Bend Bulletin - Oregon recently was named one of the 10 least affordable states for full-time child care by the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies. The average price for full-time child care for a 4-year-old was $9,012 in Oregon in 2006 ...

San Diego Union-Tribune - In keeping with Oprah Winfrey's reputation for philanthropy, 10 percent of Oprah Winney's earnings have been designated for a nonprofit organization that operates the child care center at Belmont Park in New York. By the end of the video clip, Oprah ...

BusinessWeek - On the subject of PVC, Greenpeace acknowledged that the chemicals it found aren't regulated by RoHS, though they are banned under other European rules for use in toys and child-care products. So don't let your teething toddler suck on your iPhone. An ...

El Paso Times - The city plans on Oct. 30 to discontinue the child-care services it has offered at the Pavo Real Recreation Center because the number of children there has fallen to about 12. Wayne Thornton, spokesman for the city Parks and Recreation Department ...