Childcare

Childcare shows up in Kyle’s notes as the business side of Parenting: who looks after children while their parents work, and how parents stay in the workforce. In June 2021 he saved a short reading list on it, and his Roam “Trends” page logged several childcare companies as possible deep dives. It is a set of saved leads, not yet a worked-out view.

The companies fall into three groups: large center-based providers, networks of home-based daycares, and platforms that help parents, mostly mothers, find flexible work.

Companies

Company	What it does	Link
KinderCare	Large U.S. provider of center-based daycare, preschool and early education	kindercare.com
MyVillage	Network that helps people run licensed home-based daycares	myvillage.com (site no longer live)
The Mom Project	Job platform that helps women stay in the workforce and connects them with flexible roles	themomproject.com
Procare	Management software for childcare centers
QKkids	Online English tutoring for children in China
Predictim	Background-screening scores for babysitters

Kyle also noted an unnamed childcare company in Denver.

Reading

• The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting (Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, 2018)
• An Axios Future newsletter item on childcare, saved in the same June 2021 list

See also

• Parenting