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Why You Should Hire a Mitter

If you’ve never hired a mitter, (aka a male babysitter), you may be missing out on awesome care and a refreshing change of pace for your kids. Mitters bring diversity and

Five Reasons You Need Childcare When You Work from Home

Contributed by guest blogger Brie Weiler Reynolds, Director of Online Content at FlexJobs, and a work-at-home mom to one-year-old Jack. A common misconception about working from home is that you

Five Reasons to Hire a New Babysitter

As we head into the final days of summer, why not shake up your routine by substituting your regular babysitter with someone new? You might not be so keen on

5 Ways a Babysitter Can Help This Summer

Now that the kids are home from school for the summer, you’re faced with a whole different set of childcare needs. If you need full-time childcare for the summer, you

How to Line Up Summer Childcare Help

The typical school-age child has 10 weeks of summer vacation. That’s at least 70 full days with you or another caregiver–be it a daycare provider, camp counselor, nanny, babysitter, family,

5 Things to Consider Before Choosing a Summer Camp for Your Kids

Options are seemingly endless for summer day camps and mini-camps for kids as young as toddlers. With camp registrations underway and deadlines quickly approaching, it’s tempting to jump at the

What should I look for in a babysitter?

Finding and hiring the right babysitter can be unnerving for parents. While we’d all like to leave our kids in the kind and capable hands of Mary Poppins, the reality