7 tips to becoming a high-demand personal assistant
In a bustling office setting, it’s easy to overlook a manager’s personal assistant, but they’re often the glue that holds...
In a bustling office setting, it’s easy to overlook a manager’s personal assistant, but they’re often the glue that holds...
Care.com is proud to stand with more than 75 business leaders calling for a strong, sustainable and inclusive national paid...
For as long as she can remember, Chris H. has loved babies, even when she was barely out of babyhood...
If you have a nanny watching your kids or a senior caregiver taking care of a loved one, you know...
Five years ago almost to the day (January 24), I stood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange...
On Feb. 16, Heather Nauert, a potential nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, took herself out of...
When Keyona Grant was preparing to go back to work after maternity leave, her baby did what a lot of...
Prior to parenting, I had it all figured out — or so I thought. I’d breastfeed exclusively until my child...
Since picking my son up from our babysitter and putting him down for bed, I can name at least a...
The mental load — the unseen stress and emotional labor that often falls on women — isn’t a new concept...
Child care is necessary for every family. All parents must find a solution that fits their unique situation, and cost...
Child care is necessary for every family. All parents must find a solution that fits their unique situation, and cost...
Child care is necessary for every family. All parents must find a solution that fits their unique situation, and cost...
Being a working parent is no easy task, but neither is staying at home with your kids. After parents welcome...
There’s no question that it’s difficult to work and run a household at the same time, but if you’re a...
We used to associate motherhood with mom jeans and dark under-eye circles. Now, it seems, people associate it with wine...
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day typically falls on April 23, but for some parents, it’s actually every...
As a nanny, or even a day care worker or babysitter, you put in the work. You take care...
Pregnancy is a special time in a woman’s life, but it’s also a time when people start treating them completely...
It took five debates for a moderator to finally ask the Democratic candidates about child care, an issue that hits...
We know taxes can be intimidating for both families hiring caregivers and caregivers working in a family’s home. To help...
It took five debates — and, eventually, a full panel of female moderators — to produce a single question about...
The U.S. is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. When discussing our country, phrases like “the land of...
For many parents, grandparents are heroes. They offer great advice, love their grandkids like their own and are always there...
Parents are accustomed to school and day care closures due to blizzards and other extreme weather events, but trying to...
Parenting in this time of coronavirus is adding an extra layer of learning to everything we thought we knew about...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, child care was a major expense for most parents and an ongoing financial juggle...
Indeed, we are all in this pandemic together. However, healthcare, childcare and other essential workers, as well as single parents,...
Nannies, babysitters and other in-home caregivers continue to adapt to COVID-19 as new rules and laws dictate how we do...
If you’re a professional caregiver, nanny or sitter who has recently lost work as a result of state-issued “stay-at-home” orders...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the U.S., many of us have been daydreaming about the day when stay-at-home orders...
If there was one word to blanketly describe the feelings of living amid this pandemic, it might be “intense.” Intense...
For most American families, work-life balance was a struggle long before the days of social distancing and indefinite school...
Social distancing has proven difficult for many families, but would it be easier if you could do it with...
There are over 2 million domestic workers across the United States employed part- or full-time to provide families with valuable...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for everyone, but it’s been exceptionally ugly out there for working women and moms....
As a working mom, the COVID-19 pandemic hit my life like a nuclear bomb. Overnight, I went from being an...
Given that educators around the country felt underpaid, undervalued and frustrated that their voices were not being heard before COVID-19,...
School districts offering distance learning options for the fall are beginning to send out their new schedules, and the plans...
For “heart moms” like Riki Graves, talking about vaccines is a matter of necessity. Her 6-year-old Juliana had a heart...