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Parenting Styles: When Your Child Just Isn’t Ready for Childcare

April 24 by Jessica Timmons

Parenting Styles: What to do when you desperately need mom time but your kid doesn't like daycare.

Image Credit: © Presidio of Monterey | Month of Military Child Parade | CC by 1.0   After spring break ended – sob – and three kiddos went off to school today, I tried taking our youngest, three in July, to the playcare thing at our gym. It did not go well. She’s been going on weekends for months now, with all three siblings, and it’s been great. She comes out proudly bearing scribbles and curls of tissue paper haphazardly glued to more tissue paper. She excitedly tells me about … [Read more...]

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