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• Childcare Relationships and Bickering Parents Affect Kids' Stress Hormones

  It seems self-evident that kids with poor childcare relationships or parents who frequently fight are more stressed than other kids. But now two new studies have established this common sense theory from a biological standpoint, by monitoring the levels of cortisol (the human stress hormone) in preschoolers and 6-year-olds. As parents across the country struggle to afford high quality childcare and to maintain a stable home environment, these studies are unfortunately quite applicable to these trying economic times. Read More... Posted Nov 19 2008, 05:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: children, kids, preschool, divorce, fighting, stress, teachers, childcare, babysitters, finances, study, expensive, relationships, caregivers, class size, economy, health problems, day care, poor, cost, good, financial crisis, economic crisis, fighting parents, paying the bills, affordable, child care relationships, high qualiy child care, cortisol, psychological problems, paying for childare, parentings, bickering, stressful home life

• Nannies and Mommies: What's Real and What's Just Hollywood?

  The Nanny Diaries opened at the end of last week.  While this might seem like a late and lame attempt to be timely, when you consider that I, like gazillions of other parents, won't see it until it is moved from the New Releases section of Netflix into its appropriate category banishment, I am really quite ahead of schedule. And although I didn't quite get around to reading the book it is based on either, I am curious to see if there is any magic reality written into the relationship of mother and nanny. Read More... Posted Aug 28 2007, 10:57 AM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: babysitters, the nanny diaries, nannies, hollywood mothers, caregivers, mothers in movies