Child Care Quotes

Welcome to the world of heartwarming and insightful Child Care Quotes! Whether you’re a parent seeking inspiration, a caregiver looking for motivation, or simply someone who cherishes the magic of childhood, you’ve come to the right place. This page is a treasure trove of quotes that capture the essence of nurturing, raising, and caring for children. These quotes are not just words on a screen; they are a source of wisdom, encouragement, and the purest expressions of love for the little ones in our lives.

Below, you’ll find a collection of carefully curated quotes that touch upon various aspects of child care, from the joys and challenges of parenting to the precious moments that make it all worthwhile. We invite you to explore these quotes, whether for personal reflection, sharing with others, or adding a touch of elegance to your creative projects. So, feel free to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts – the possibilities are endless! Let’s celebrate the beauty of child care through the words of those who have experienced its wonder and significance. Enjoy the quotes below and let them inspire you in your journey of nurturing the next generation.

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. Kirsten Gillibrand

One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system. Lois Frankel

If you work a job outside of the hours a daycare that accepts government grants operates, if you are self-employed or you take classes not approved by federal daycare funding, you will have trouble finding ways around high child care costs. Stephanie Land

Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child care, infrastructure investment, education, decarbonization, and a thousand other priorities. Annie Lowrey

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage. Mem Fox

Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women’s wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families – groceries, rent, child care, and doctors’ visits. Jan Schakowsky

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care. Benjamin Spock

It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care. Sheryl Sandberg

I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don’t just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make. Stewart Butterfield

I’ve got a lot of military kids who are not in on-base child care, and they should be. So it’s things like that I’m going to change, either from a funding perspective or a policy perspective. Mark Esper

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care. Janet Yellen

Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work – the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the value they helped create – is absolutely essential to a growing, vibrant middle class. Tom Perez

Paid child care would make child care more efficient, allowing more children to be cared for by fewer adults, and thus free up parents to work more. Michael Shellenberger

Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting its long-standing egalitarian culture and spirit of communitarianism – a spirit that extends to its prisons. Michelle Alexander

If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we’re scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we’re far from that. Jessica McDonald

Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted with issues like child care. Martha Nussbaum

I’m an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn’t afford child care; child care hours didn’t work according to her schedule. Ayanna Pressley

As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women’s equality is very personal for me. That’s why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women’s rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care. Mike Quigley

Parents of all income levels deserve options for child care while they work so they can be free of the worry that their children are cared for and safe. Stephanie Land

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor. Kim Brooks

Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down. Barbara Mikulski

The opposition has always opposed the Universal Child Care Benefit, from the time the Liberals said parents would just spend it on beer and popcorn. Pierre Poilievre

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men. Lael Brainard

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. Sheryl Sandberg

There are huge pain points experienced by parents. It’s hard to find good child care options in one place. It’s hard figure out things to do with your kids on the weekends or after school. It’s hard to find iPad apps for your kids that you are confident are helping them learn vs. just being entertained. Christine Tsai

Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood. London Breed

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care. Harriet Harman

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems. Judy Biggert

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair – she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life. Janet Reno

My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents. Campbell Brown

There hasn’t been any positive steps for moms in the NWSL. Now we’re kind of getting our heads together, getting ideas together, and so now we can start somewhere as moms… Child care is not cheap. And if you look at our paychecks and you look at child care, there goes our paycheck. How are we going to eat? Jessica McDonald

Access to quality child care is critical for working families, and attending college is often a full-time job. Mike Parson

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning. Stacey Abrams

In response to our fast-food culture, a ‘slow food’ movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. Arlie Russell Hochschild

It’s tough working as a single parent, but I’m lucky enough to have chunks of time when I’m at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care. Tamzin Outhwaite

What good is telling America’s children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don’t have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn’t have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings? Janet Reno

Whether it’s making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future. Blanche Lincoln

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act dramatically expanded child care provisions and Head Start. Neera Tanden

It’s a – all of government and all of the private sector as well. We need to do better in the child care space. Marty Walsh

You’re worried about the quality of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s child care? It’s not like they’re getting their nanny off Craigslist. They’re rich celebrities. They could get Mary Poppins to watch their baby, as in literally call Julie Andrews, get her to come out of retirement to babysit in character as Mary Poppins. Desi Lydic

We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That’s why we brought in the universal child care benefit way back in 2006. Pierre Poilievre

For decades, Hillary Clinton has been a lot more than a public champion of child care, paid leave and equal pay. She’s lived these issues and led on them personally. Neera Tanden

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs. Mel Carnahan

The care economy impacts all of us: our children, elderly loved ones, family members with disabilities, child care workers, home health aides, nurses, and so many more. Care is something we all need, at different stages in our lives. Jamaal Bowman

During my time in the state Senate, I’ve worked to make sure every Kansas child has the support they need to succeed. That means access to good public schools, but it also means strong early childhood programs, an accountable child welfare system to protect kids, and affordable, safe child care. Laura Kelly

The Trump administration, to its credit, has initiatives on housing. It has initiatives on child care. It does not have true initiatives in terms of making health care more affordable and covering the remaining millions of Americans who do not have insurance coverage. Annie Lowrey

There is no doubt that the participation of women in the workforce is a serious productivity boost, but to enable this ambition, there must be investment in care – child care, aged care, disability care, health, and education – which are essential social support structures to enable women to work. Sharan Burrow

I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called ‘When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.’ It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care. Jan Schakowsky

In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, ‘The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,’ talking about women writers I felt had fallen off the map. Sarah Weinman

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. Richard Neal

I took my kids everywhere. I didn’t have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway. Iyanla Vanzant

My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in – housing, all of those things. Patricia Schroeder

Well, child care can’t be just addressed by the Biden administration. Child care has to be addressed by – from local government all the way to state government to the federal government to the private sector. And it’s a system that needs to be invested in, and it’s – quite honestly hasn’t. Marty Walsh

The reason why the Liberals and the NDP don’t want parents to know about the universal child care benefit is because those parties would take that benefit away. Pierre Poilievre

Your U.S. military has the best child care in the nation. Full, paid family and medical leave benefits. Why aren’t we doing that to empower our workforce? Joe Sestak

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care. Tom Perez

I’m particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up. Kate Brown

I kept working during my campaign because I needed to feed my family. As a single mom of three kids, I have a lot of child care that I needed to juggle, and I was a first-time candidate. Katie Porter

I was one of six children raised by a single mom who cleaned houses, not always knowing if we would come home to an eviction notice on the front door or food on the table. So I also understand the struggles of paying the rent, finding affordable child care, and having enough in the bank to make it to the end of the week. Eric Adams

The care work force, the people who care for the elderly and disabled in the country and the people who principally provide child care are overwhelmingly women and overwhelmingly paid at poverty wages. Brian Deese

Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her husband generally does more child care and has higher parental knowledge about his childrens’ friends, routines, and needs, cutting across the tendency for fathers to be second-string parents at home. Stephanie Coontz

For decades, Hillary has championed the issues that matter to working families: child care, paid leave, equal pay. But she doesn’t just talk the talk. She walks the walk. Neera Tanden

If we want to grow our economy and help families return to work, we need to support child care providers. Ned Lamont

Policies on children and child care are the most effective investment for the future. Fumio Kishida

Child care is very important, so I want to put dollars there, and I want to make sure we get the policies right. Mark Esper

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. Augustus Y. Napier

The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day. Chris Gardner

Yes, we need a substantial investment in our hard infrastructure like roads and bridges. But roads and bridges can’t serve people if they don’t have the child care they need in order to go to work or the health care they need to stay healthy and participate in the workforce. Jamaal Bowman

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force. Phyllis Schlafly

Countless families rely on child care providers to keep their families safe as they help grow their small businesses and work hard. Parents must have a safe place to send their children. Lucy McBath

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable. I’ve talked to my constituents over the years, and child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. Nina Turner

I make no apologies for informing parents of the expanded universal child care benefit. Pierre Poilievre

I think people are fed up with struggling to make ends meet. It’s so easy to find yourself in a position of not being able to pay the bills for most Americans when we’re watching the cost of housing and child care and health insurance skyrocket without an increase in wage. Stephanie Land

As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner. Madeleine M. Kunin

A true infrastructure investment must include transforming our economy to handle the climate crisis, supporting care workers, reforming SSI, making child care universal, rebuilding our crumbling public schools, and much more. Jamaal Bowman

For me and other families struggling to make ends meet, paying for child care out of pocket is an impossible task. Stephanie Land

The Child Care is Essential Act and the Child Care for Economic Recovery Act will deliver urgently-needed relief to providers and working families. Mikie Sherrill

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I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.
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