Daycare – Finding Day Care For A Person Or Pet Just Got Easier

New Jersey Public Health Council will vote on rule to require flu and pneumonia vaccines for any child entering day care or preschool; will also consider vaccine against meningtis and booster against tetanus, pertussis and diphtheria for children entering sixth grade

Source:A Proposal To Require Flu Vaccines For Preschool

The parents of 54 toddlers enrolled in a popular day care center are going to have to make other plans.

Source:The End of Day Care, the Start of the Scramble

Advisory panel New Jersey Health Council recommends that state require all children who attend preschool or day care to get annual flu vacinations; also recommends that preschoolers receive vaccine against pneumonia and that middle school children receive vaccine against meningitis and booster for immunization against tetanus, pertussis and diphtheria; state Health Department’s Comr Dr Fred M Jacobs is expected to sign measure

Source:New Jersey Is Expected to Require Flu Shots for Preschoolers

In a year with the baby, a stay-at-home dad makes many treks to the mall and to Mom’s office.

Source:Male Bonding (Or How Dad Lost 30 Pounds)

Preschool programs and day care centers have been studied extensively by researchers, and the reports are usually a mixed bag of risks and benefits.

Source:A Consensus About Day Care: Quality Counts

Father provide slightly less child care than grandparents, who serve as the primary caregivers for about 20 percent of the 11.3 million preschool children with employed mothers.

Source:Families Help Care for Half of U.S. Preschoolers, Census Says

Children who attend day care may be less likely to suffer from asthma and wheezing than their stay-at-home peers, a new study reports.

Source:Childhood: Day Care May Offer Asthma Protection

The architect David Rockwell has designed novel playgrounds for New York City that replace traditional fixed structures like monkey bars and swings with custom shaped loose parts that children can move around.

Source:An Invitation to Child?s Play: Big Blocks and Wheelbarrows

In the largest successful organizing drive in New York City in half a century, 28,000 child care providers will join the city’s teachers’ union as the result of an overwhelmingly pro-union vote.

Source:Child Care Workers in New York City Vote to Unionize

A South Bronx day care center being investigated by the city for financial improprieties will lose its city financing next week and have to close, officials said Wednesday.

Source:City Cuts Bronx Center’s Aid, Citing Misuse of Funds

A battle between employees and their company over in-house day care may be representative of greater changes at Google.

Source:On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble

The state comptroller said that his office had uncovered numerous instances of child care centers in New York City misspending public funds.

Source:State Finds Fund Misuse at 19 Child Care Centers