YOUNG AT HEART - Senior+Child Care Centers

"What happens when a nursing home and a day care center share a roof?" PBS NewsHour 5/10/2016

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SUMMARY:  What can a 5-year-old learn from a 95-year-old? At Seattle’s Providence Mount St. Vincent nursing home, that question is answered daily.  You see, “The Mount” also houses a child care center of 125 tots.  And the full cycle of life on display is magic.  Special correspondent Cat Wise reports.

MARY MCGOVERN, Resident, Providence Mount St. Vincent:  What do you see?

CHILD:  A brown bear.

CHILD:  A brown bear.

CAT WISE (NewsHour):  Mary McGovern is 95 years old, and one of her favorite things to do is read to toddlers.

MARY MCGOVERN:  And what is that? A bird.

CHILD:  A bird.

MARY MCGOVERN:  A bird.  What color is the bird?

CHILDREN:  Red.

MARY MCGOVERN:  Red.  Everybody knows that.

CAT WISE:  Luckily for Mary, she doesn’t need to go any further than down the hall to find her young friends.

MARY MCGOVERN:  Oh, see, look in here is the little kids in there.

CAT WISE:  Oh, yes.

McGovern lives at Providence Mount St. Vincent, a nursing home in Seattle, Washington, that also houses a day care for children up to 5 years of age.

WOMAN:  Thank you, honey.  Thank you.  There you go.  Thank you very much.

CAT WISE:  Every weekday, 500 residents are joined by 125 children in the facility affectionately called The Mount.

CHILDREN - Unaffordable Child Care

"Hefty child care costs present catch-22 for working parents" PBS NewsHour 5/8/2014

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GWEN IFILL (NewsHour):  The cost and affordability of good child care is the focus of the next installment in our series Parenting Now.

It’s a major concern for families throughout the country.  And in different ways, it cuts across lines of class and income.

The NewsHour’s economics correspondent, Paul Solman, has the story, part of his reporting Making Sense of financial news.

DANIELLE SPIRO:  Where’s mommy?  There she is.

PAUL SOLMAN (NewsHour):  When Baltimore teacher Danielle Spiro gave birth to her daughter Eva last year, she had to quit her job.

DANIELLE SPIRO:  There was no way I was going to be to be able to ever afford day care.

PAUL SOLMAN:  Tiffany Beroid worked at Wal-Mart in Laurel, Maryland, where she had her second daughter.

TIFFANY BEROID:  I made $12,000 for the whole year, and day care was costing, I want to say $275 to $300 a week just for the newborn.

PAUL SOLMAN:  That’s more than she was earning.