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Hourly care, night-care, weekend care, date-night care, and more are available now on Daycare Owl is free for parents to register, search for daycares, favorite daycares, and communicate for providers. Daycare Owl allows daycares to offer a multitude of services beyond weekly care.

Around the clock daycare full#

The full booking system will be available nationally in August, currently Daycare Owl is testing their pilot program. Daycare Owl's booking system allows daycares to maintain a live calendar online, parents can then purchase childcare hours directly from the daycare(s). Daycare Owl's platform allows parents to search and book on-demand care at licensed daycares. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.DUBLIN, Calif., J/PRNewswire/ - Daycare Owl has created a child care marketplace that connects parents with licensed childcare providers in the area. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. They'll be picked by a parent at around 2 o'clock in the morning.įor NPR News, I'm Erin Toner, in Milwaukee.Ĭopyright © 2012 NPR. There are still two sleeping children left at the daycare. TONER: Adan loads his kids into his taxi and drives away. SHEIKHNUR ADAN: So it's a good place for the kids to be. Adan drives a taxi at night and his wife has begun working for a cleaning service. The littlest ones had already fallen asleep. Sheikhnur Adan just arrived to pick up his four kids. TONER: It's now 9:30 at night at the 24-hour daycare Fantastic Beginnings.

She says she wishes her little girl could go to sleep at home, but right now, day and night care is her only option. TONER: Powell's job is to pass out medication at a nursing home about a half-hour away. Today's pickup is early, but that's not the case most days.ĬONTESSA POWELL: Sometimes I work from six to two, sometimes I work two to 10, sometimes I work from 10 to seven, so it's all over the place.

TONER: After the bingo game and a round of brownies for the kids, Contessa Powell arrives to gather her three-year old daughter. Transportation to and from home, which was normally not done, but I know several people that are doing that now. LINDA KOSTANTENACO: Some are offering what they call 24-hour child care, evening care, the extended hour care, weekends, you know, even Saturday and Sunday. Linda Kostantenaco is president of the National Child Care Association. TONER: While national groups don't formally keep track of how many daycare centers offer non-traditional hours, it's clear that more are heading in that direction because families are taking shift work or second jobs to make ends meet. MARILYN BARTON: This means that they have to try and put their job on hold, or either they just can't go to work at that time because they don't have anybody to take care of their children. Owner Marilyn Barton says demand for nighttime care has been growing, and recently she's had to turn families away because she's at capacity at night. TONER: Fantastic Beginnings is one of nearly 50 daycares in the city of Milwaukee that are licensed to operate 24 hours, and more than 100 stay open until 11 or midnight. We can't go to work with her 'cause it's old people there. TANIA: I always like to go somewhere with my momma, but sometimes we don't. Four-year-old Tania spends part of her day at daycare, and also goes to sleep here some nights when her mother works second shift. On the other side of the room, younger kids are sitting at a table working on puzzles. TONER: This is a group of 8, 9 and 10 year olds. It's small and a bit rundown, but it's cheerful, with bright yellow walls and cutouts of ladybugs hanging from the ceiling. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Now, when I call it out, I want you all to spell out whatever word that I call out.ĮRIN TONER, BYLINE: It's 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and a game of bingo is starting at Fantastic Beginnings, a daycare center in Milwaukee's inner city. While parents used to rush to pick up their kids from daycare by the 6 P.M., the traditional closing time, these days many centers are staying open much later, or even around-the-clock.Įrin Toner of member station WUWM visited a 24-hour facility in Milwaukee to learn about nighttime at day care. With many workers taking second and third shift jobs to make ends meet, there's a growing demand for evening and overnight child care.