<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Daycare: News &amp; Videos about Daycare - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Daycare</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Daycare from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:37:52 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Daycare: News &amp; Videos about Daycare - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Daycare</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Daycare from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Discipline mistakes that make your life harder</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/11/02/p.discipline.mistakes.life.hard/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/11/02/p.discipline.mistakes.life.hard/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>You know the drill: You give your child an ultimatum -- "Get dressed or we're staying home!" -- and naturally she says, "Okay, we'll stay home!" 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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, amid allegations of racism.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Swim club offers olive branch after racism allegations</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/12/pennsylvania.pool.problems/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/12/pennsylvania.pool.problems/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suburban Philadelphia swim club has invited children from a largely minority day-care center to come back after a June reversal that fueled allegations of racism against the club, a spokeswoman said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Swim club president denies racism in pool controversy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/10/philly.pool.response/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/10/philly.pool.response/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The president of The Valley Swim Club on Friday strongly 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fire</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/05/mexico.daycare.warrants/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/05/mexico.daycare.warrants/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Arrest warrants have been issued for another nine people associated with a fire at a day-care center in northwestern Mexico in June that killed 48 children, the state-run Notimex news agency said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anger boils in Mexico over 46 deaths at day care center</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/15/mexico.day.care.anger/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/15/mexico.day.care.anger/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Anger is growing in Mexico over a fire at a government-run day care center that claimed its 46th child this weekend.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Another child dies after Mexico day care fire</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/13/mexico.daycare.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/13/mexico.daycare.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Another child has died from last week's fire at a day care center in northwestern Mexico, bringing the death toll to 45, the state-run Notimex news agency said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mexico removes official who oversaw day-care center</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/11/mexico.day.care.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/11/mexico.day.care.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Mexico's Institute of Social Security, which oversaw the day-care facility where 44 children died in a fire last week, removed its director in the state where the tragedy occurred, the 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What should I be looking for?</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Take advantage of your employee benefits</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/26/pf/saving/willis_tips/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/26/pf/saving/willis_tips/index.htm</guid><description>So your employee benefits for 2005 are set in stone now. 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But as anyone with one of these accounts knows, whatever you don't use, you lose!</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Do Women Want?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/04/women.voters/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/04/women.voters/index.html</guid><description>Kristen Breitweiser, like her husband ron, voted for George W. Bush in 2000. 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He earned it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>...And baby makes $300,000</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/17/pf/armchair_baby/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/17/pf/armchair_baby/index.htm</guid><description>Dear Armchair Millionaire: Our first baby is due in February and my wife and I are frantically preparing in every way we can. 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But in Hong Kong, schools and nurseries are closing because there aren't enough children to fill classes. And governments from South Korea to Singapore are trying to encourage women to have more children.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drop-in daycare: business as usual?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/18/pf/daycare_everywhere/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/18/pf/daycare_everywhere/index.htm</guid><description>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Iseult Devlin and her husband Wayne Lavertu met while they were both sharing the rent on a winter ski lodge with a bunch of other singles and ski enthusiasts.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Living with the in-laws</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/18/pf/yourhome/grannyflats/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/18/pf/yourhome/grannyflats/index.htm</guid><description>BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Erika and her husband are in a common predicament. 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He was 76.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Child Care: The McDonald's Model David Henry wants to get rich providing child care to poor families. Investors think he can do </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/18/287694/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/18/287694/index.htm</guid><description>Picture David Henry. He's a classic. Clean-cut, energy and ambition to burn. Wears those loose-fitting khakis and that wide-striped Polo shirt as if he'd been born in them. Has a look in his eyes t...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>You Two Go Out: The Boss Will Babysit</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/01/24/272323/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/01/24/272323/index.htm</guid><description>David Harris and Kimberly Ratekin have been married 14 years. They have two daughters and a newborn son. Still, with the help of their employer, the South San Francisco biotech firm Genentech, they...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Digital Day Care 'Family-Friendly' Firms Will Find             That No Good Deeds Go Unpunished</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/24/260236/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/24/260236/index.htm</guid><description>Most FORTUNE 500 companies don't really loathe their employees' children--they just act as if they do. Firms that couldn't fathom funding on-site day care for staffers don't hesitate to subsidize b...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 May 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lifelong Learning Spells Earnings Soon you may be hiring people trained by Knowledge Universe, Mike Milken's mysterious new comp</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/07/06/244814/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/07/06/244814/index.htm</guid><description>We're all familiar with Michael Milken the junk bond king and symbol of the anything-goes, boom-and-bust '80s on Wall Street. Then there's Milken the philanthropist, busily repairing his reputation...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Middle-Class Kids Are Losing Out They are at greater risk of receiving unsafe day care, and 11% have lost health insurance s</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/01/01/236889/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1998/01/01/236889/index.htm</guid><description>Americans like to say that our children are our most valuable asset. Yet children at all income levels are suffering from neglect--not just the children of poverty, as some would like you to think....</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HERE'S MY ADVICE FOR GIVING YOURSELF SOME TAX GIFTS             ON YOUR SPECIAL BIRTHDAYS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/06/01/227251/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1997/06/01/227251/index.htm</guid><description>To you, a birthday might be just another reminder that you're getting on in years. But to the IRS, your birthday--or half-birthday--can be a reason for the agency to crash your party and either giv...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FACING THOSE MESSY CHILD-CARE TAXES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/10/01/217567/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/10/01/217567/index.htm</guid><description>You probably thought you had your child-care problems licked when you found the perfect nanny or babysitter, right? Little did you know your difficulties were just beginning. Unless you've hired a ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 1996 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO AFFORD THE AMERICAN KID</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/01/01/207676/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1996/01/01/207676/index.htm</guid><description>RAISING TWO-YEAR-OLD Rebecca Schuchat of Oakland has been a journey of discovery for her parents, Ilana DeBare and Sam Schuchat. This year, for example, they discovered that their 1985 Toyota Corol...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1996 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>TENDING TOTS MAKES A STOCK HOT</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/08/07/205132/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/08/07/205132/index.htm</guid><description>TENDING TOTS MAKES A STOCK HOT </description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE WORLD'S BEST 5 IDEAS SWEDEN How to care for our young ones</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/06/01/88096/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/06/01/88096/index.htm</guid><description>Compared with other wealthy democracies, our country does little to help parents cope with new babies or pay for child care. Granted, the Family and Medical Leave Act that President Clinton signed ...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHO'S MINDING AMERICA'S KIDS For millions of them,             it's someone other than parents during working hours.            </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76731/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76731/index.htm</guid><description>KATHY SPIVACK has her schedule down to a science. While her son, Jeffrey, was in kindergarten this past spring, the divorced mother from Closter, New Jersey, arranged her work as an executive with ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT EMPLOYEE BENEFITS EVEN COMPANIES THAT HAVE TRIMMED PENSIONS AND HEALTH COVERAGE ARE ADDING ''FAMILY-FRIENDLY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1992/06/01/87342/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1992/06/01/87342/index.htm</guid><description>DUANE HYATT, 54, A MACHINE AND SUPPLIES TESTER for Xerox, is spending nine months volunteering full time at a Rochester, N.Y. women's shelter -- while Xerox pays his full salary and benefits. Marti...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PRESCHOOL AROUND THE GLOBE The U.S. can't afford to ignore the payoff from early childhood education. Here are grade A lessons f</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/21/75605/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/21/75605/index.htm</guid><description>WHEN IT COMES to early childhood education, the U.S. ranks near the bottom of the class. Nearly every other major industrialized nation -- and even some developing countries -- see the job of educa...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CAN YOUR CAREER HURT YOUR KIDS? Mommy often gets home from work too tired to talk. Daddy's almost never around. Says one expert:</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/20/75032/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/20/75032/index.htm</guid><description>BECAUSE CHILDREN are the future, America could be headed for bad bumps down the road. Some of the symptoms are familiar -- rising teenage suicides and juvenile arrest rates, average SAT scores lowe...</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GET READY FOR THE NEW WORK FORCE If demographics are destiny, companies that aggressively hire, train, and promote women and min</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/04/23/73425/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/04/23/73425/index.htm</guid><description>HAROLD EPPS, who runs the Digital Equipment Corp. plant that makes computer keyboards, manages the work force of the future. The Boston factory's 350 employees come from 44 countries and speak 19 l...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TODAY'S LEADERS LOOK TO TOMORROW SOCIETY EDWARD F.             ZIGLER KEEP THOSE LATCHKEY KIDS AT SCHOOL ALL DAY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73222/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/03/26/73222/index.htm</guid><description>What we need in this country is a trustworthy, affordable child-care program that is open to everyone. My proposal is to use existing elementary schools as the hub of a comprehensive solution. We'v...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Attention: All Employees From: Your Benefits Dept. Re: The Tax Break You Shouldn't Ignore Wish you could keep more of your pay? </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/11/01/85427/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/11/01/85427/index.htm</guid><description>Imagine this. You get a note one day from the Internal Revenue Service saying the agency feels bad that it's been taxing you on money you need to pay for such basic expenses as health insurance ded...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MARRIED COUPLES WHO WANT IT ALL: TWO CAREERS PLUS CHILDREN Debt and taxes are inevitable, but the big concern is finding afforda</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/03/01/85001/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1989/03/01/85001/index.htm</guid><description>Like so many couples who are juggling two careers while trying to raise a family, Marc Walker, 38, and his wife Melanie, 35, of Ithaca, N.Y. always feel as if their spare time is disappearing into ...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CHILD CARE: WHAT WORKS -- AND DOESN'T Some 3,500 companies offer day care benefits. The federal government helps out too. But it</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/11/21/71290/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/11/21/71290/index.htm</guid><description>BABIES AREN'T just Gerber's business anymore. When William Popejoy stepped in to rescue American Savings &amp;amp; Loan Association in 1984, he eliminated 700 company cars, 39 condominiums, nine airplanes,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FACING THE MUSIC ON CHILD CARE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/29/70966/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/29/70966/index.htm</guid><description>Who should take care of America's children? The answer of past centuries -- their parents -- no longer satisfies a number of people, and the issue has suddenly approached the top of the national ag...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Debating Dinosaurs, Measuring Muscles, Playing to the Yuppies, and Other Matters. The Day Care Follies</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/02/15/70180/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/02/15/70180/index.htm</guid><description>The latest big sell in Washington is for federal support of day care, and you'd better believe the merchandise is hot. Democratic political consultant Peter Hart calls it ''the sleeper issue of 198...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 1988 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>COVER STORY EXECUTIVE GUILT: WHO'S TAKING CARE OF THE CHILDREN? And how will kids raised by nannies and in day care centers turn</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68675/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68675/index.htm</guid><description>CONRAD LUNG, 37, vice president of Amtex Sportswear Inc., used to go to his Manhattan office every day a profoundly unhappy man. The source of his pain was the source of his joy: Jennifer Lung, his...</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>