I had always worked nights. My husband works nights. It just fit. When our daughter came into our life, it was a struggle to find someone willing to come to our home and watch her overnight. My husband and I worked it out so we had different days off and would only need a s...

I really don't have a story except that I am currently a single mother in the middle of a divorce and can not find affordable, acceptable child care to allow me to reenter the work force. To work a minimum wage job and pay $10/hour child care, just doesn't make any sense. ...

"I, along with several other parents at Barbara Vick Early Childhood & Family Center are disheartened. My daughter is in an IEP and I believe the reason for her success is greatly due to the blended classroom environment that Barbara Vick offers."

" By bringing together government, businesses and individuals we will fund our business model and make it transparent for others to see accross the Nation, empowering other cities to do similar programs."

"I want to start a petition to local state Governments to regulate the fees associated with childcare. What if I have a death in the family? I still have to pay a full week of tuition."

"The fact that I had to work much more than I wanted to work when my son was young in part to pay the high cost of daycare, will remain one of the great regrets of my life. "

"Put money into schools that families want. Alternative education!"

"Dollars and excellence spent on the earliest years of life save exponential dollars at the other end (fewer jails, victims of fraud, divorces, orphans, sickness and poverty). "

"I'm terrified that my children are going to slip through some legislative crack because children and families weren't as important as some other, more heavily funded and lobbied issue. In my mind, there only one question. What could possibly matter more? "

"The childcare crisis is a serious problem across the country and is truly unacceptable in a country that is supposed to be advanced such as ours...Early childcare and education must be a priority."