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How to organize your first care circle in your community Does a care circle sound like a winning strategy to help you gain some time back in your week? Follow our action plan to help you get started right away. Download Carefully for free on iOS or Android to start building your network in an easy way. Step 1: Gather your circle Gather your circle: Find parents within your community (park, school…

All about Care Circles As part of our collaboration with Mirza, we are publishing a two part series on Care Circles. There are so many choices in determining which type of childcare to use once you have kids. It is easy to be overwhelmed with all the options along with the additional burden of the high costs associated with childcare. From nannies to au pairs to in-home daycares and child care…

Let's hear from the director and lead teacher Yne Leal of Nueva York Kiddos. What do you love the most about being a parent? I absolutely love spending time with my daughter, seeing her evolve as an independent, kind and creative individual, going to places and having fun together. My favorite moments are the ones when she is affectionate. She is a pre-teen and it does not happen as often as it…

In her own words... Childcare has always come natural to me! As a young teenager, I gravitated towards babysitting due to my upbringing surrounded by my nieces and nephews from my large West African family. Everyday was an adventure in learning to care for a child, understanding their temper tantrums, how to change a diaper, potty training and so much more.  I was molded into becoming the…

After almost 2 years into the pandemic, both fully vaccinated and at least one of us boosted, Covid hit our household last month. While, I knew it was a more matter of time as it spread through the city, I didn't know whether to be relieved or worried that we would now have to deal with the reality of this virus. As soon as my son started to sniffle, I was sure that he had Covid. It took us…

Setting up the circle My biggest piece of advice is to not overthink the process and get started in whatever ways you can because once you start the energy will drive it forward. You work out the kinks out along the way and improve things with each day and each week as you find what works for you, your group and especially, the kids.  A few things i learned about setting up my playdate circle: The…

After a year of learning how to survive on our own, our lives have flipped yet again in the blink of an eye. I remember getting the notice that we could opt back into in person classes at the beginning of April, but ignoring it for the most part because it came with so many unknowns - blended learning meant we were only going back to school 2 or 3 days a week, classrooms were still shutting down…

Feb 2020 - Our Beta Release In the carefree days of February 2020, we were ready to start user testing our updated app with our newly added Groups feature to help people easily grow their network for sharing care. Little did we know, a few short weeks later the world would start shutting down and playdates would be the last thing on anyone’s mind as we all focused on survival and safety. March…

Originally posted April 2020 When I launched Carefully three years ago, I created an app to encourage parents to share care and host playdates. In these unprecedented times, I’ve realized that Carefully’s core mission extends well beyond playdate scheduling. Finding balance and connecting with other parents in meaningful ways is what we all need now, more than ever. Image for post As a single mom…