What to Charge? Setting Rates as a Small Caregiving Business
Since your caregiving business is all yours, its up to you to determine what to charge your clients. Planning ahead...
Careers in Child Care
15 tips for how to encourage kids to participate
No parent wants to see her kid cooped up inside all weekend while others on the block ride their bikes...
9 homework tips from tutors
Are you struggling with how to get your kids to do their homework? Or perhaps your kids are having a...
8 Tips for tutoring a child with ADHD
A child diagnosed with ADHD may struggle with getting assignments done, studying for tests and completing projects on time, all...
A checklist for tutors
Want to show your tutoring and private lessons clients the progress you’re making with their kids? The easier way to...
Your tutoring business: Money 101 for tutors
Whether you’re just starting out, working part-time, or launching your own full-time tutoring business, these smart tips and tricks for...
How to Find Respite Care Jobs
Could a respite care job be in your future? Not sure what that means? Read up on What Is Respite...
Money 101 for Pet Care Providers
Whether you’re just starting out, working part-time, or launching your own full-time pet care business, these smart tips and tricks...
The Pet Sitter Safety Checklist
Do you have a pet care safety plan? Have the families you work for given you emergency contacts? This re-useable,...
Nanny bag: 11 must-haves to bring on every job
For nannies, coming prepared to work is job No. 1. You need to keep everyone safe, comfortable and entertained. You...
6 steps to becoming a rockstar summer sitter
There are quite a few perks to being a babysitter in the summertime. “Every day can be a new adventure,”...
Am I Too Young to Babysit?
What’s the right age to begin a babysitting job? We wish there was a magic number. So how young is...
Why it’s Great to Be a New York City Nanny
Why did we pick New York City? To start with, the nannies who work there are very passionate about it....
7 Tips to Help You Get the Babysitting Job
When it comes to raising her two children, work-at-home mother Charlene DeLoach occasionally relies on some outside help. Even when...
6 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Getting Hired
After being a nanny for almost a decade and now a mother herself, Keely Flynn knows a thing or two...
What NOT to Do When Applying for a Babysitting Job
Looking to land a babysitter job? When it comes to learning the do’s and don’ts of interviewing, mother really does know...
101 Things to Do With Kids in the Bay Area
It can be exhausting to keep searching for activities to do with kids. Luckily for parents, nannies and babysitters who...
What’s the Funniest Thing a Kid Has Said to You?
As you know, kids say the darndest things! Talking to kids can be a lot of fun, and sometimes you...
How Do You Spend Your Downtime on the Job?
What do you do while the kids are napping? We were curious to know how real nannies and babysitters use...
What Is the Best Thing You Have Learned as a Caregiver?
Although being a nanny, babysitter or caregiver isn’t always the easiest job, you do learn a lot and it can...
Where Can I Get Health Insurance?
Find the health care you need for 2018. Care.com has teamed up with Stride Health to give you access to...
3 Ways to a Winning Interview
We’ve all been there. So how can you ace that interview? Here are a few sure fire ways to impress...
5 Reasons You Didn’t Get the Job
It’s hard not to get discouraged after going on interview after interview and not getting the job. It may seem...
What if You’re Concerned About the Child Caring For?
As a caregiver, you are in a unique position and have the opportunity to notice if the child in your...
Why Can’t I Post a Job
As a care provider, you have been searching for and applying to all kinds of jobs on Care.com. Now you’d...
Caregivers Share Their Tips for Finding Affordable Health Care
As part of our continual effort to understand caregivers’ needs, Stride Health collaborated with Care.com to interview three caregivers about the...
Caregiver Testimonials: Meg W.
Meg is a caregiver currently living in Los Angeles, pursuing her primary passion as a traveling dancer. She uses Care.com to...
Here Are the 20 Best Cities to Make Bank in Over Winter Break
The holiday season brings with it many splendid things: tacky light displays upsetting fancy neighborhoods, kid freak-outs on Santa’s lap...
The Secret to Simplifying Self-Care for Caregivers in 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ibU-UfpBV8 Spending less time at the office and more time working out. Reading more books and consuming less coffee, fake...
7 Questions to Ask on Your Interview
The family is asking your questions but you also need to ask a few questions to see if this job...
These are the easiest cities to find a Valentine’s Day babysitting job
According to 2019 Care.com data, Valentine’s Day was the second-most popular holiday for parents to post babysitting jobs (right after New...
Care.com presents: The 2017 college tutors bracket
Good news, sports fans — March Madness is finally upon us! In a few short weeks, one lucky team will...
How You Can Handle Babysitting for a Family With Different Political Views
Political disagreements can strain friendships and family dinners, but that doesn’t mean that they have to ruin your babysitting or...
Meeting the Kids: How Babysitters Can Make a Great First Impression
When you’re interviewing with new families for your next babysitting gig — whether it’s part-time , full-time or just for...
6 Essential Rules for Babysitting a Child With Severe Allergies
A little over ten years ago, I was a nanny to a first-grade boy who had half a dozen life-threatening...
Here’s How Much Longer Women Have to Work to Earn the Same as Men
Today is Equal Pay Day. If you haven’t heard of this day before, we don’t blame you — it’s not...
The tutoring and lessons job guide: Your job options
Perhaps you’ve always been a good student, and tutoring seems like a reasonable way to earn more income. Or you...
Child Care Job Satisfaction and Performance
No matter what kind of child care job you’re considering — whether it’s working as a nanny, au pair, mother’s...
Special Needs Job Guide: Your Options for Special Needs Care Jobs
You have a lot of patience and you are able to interact with all sorts of people in ways that...
Special Needs Job Guide: How Much Should You Charge for Providing Special Needs Care?
You’re moving ahead in your career plan to be a caregiver for a child with special needs. Now that you...