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Military Child Care
If you work full- or part-time, go to school or even just need a breather from the pressures of parenting, you know that finding affordable, quality child care isn't just important -- it's absolutely necessary. Add deployments, training and unpredictable work schedules with long hours into the mix, and you know you've got to nail down great child care, and soon.
Perhaps luckily for you, the military operates the largest employer-sponsored child care program in the U.S., according to a February 2023 report by the Government Accountability Office, and all DoD-operated and DoD-certified child care must undergo unannounced inspections four times a year.
Child Care FeesFees for DoD child care typically change with every new school year. (A significant change in the rate calculation in the 2023-2024 school year delayed the update.) DoD officials told Military.Com that the military services must see that they implement the new rates by a certain date, typically Oct. 1.
Child care fees vary according to family income and the market rate -- low, standard, or high -- selected by the installation commander. Check with your on-base child care office to find out which market rate applies.
DoD Child Care CentersThe Defense Department oversees hundreds of child development centers (CDCs) on military installations worldwide. These centers meet professional standards for early childhood education.
Child care is typically available through these centers for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years. The centers are generally open Monday through Friday between the hours of 6 a.M. And 6:30 p.M., although some installations have centers with extended hours or centers that are open around the clock.
Family Child CareThe DoD certifies in-home child care providers both on base and off. The in-home centers accept a smaller number of children than traditional daycares. Fees for these providers are often the same as they are for the CDCs.
For more information on home-based providers in your area, check with the child care office on your local base. Depending on where you are stationed, you may be able to find information about local providers on this site.
Off-Base Child Care CentersIf you don't live near an installation, or if the child care centers on your installation are full, you may be able to receive a subsidy for an off-base child care center.
Child Care Aware of America serves as a third-party administrator for child care fee assistance for many of the military services' Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood (MCCYN) programs, officials said. Go here for more information about those programs.
School-Age CareThis option for kids ages 6 to 12 years includes before- and after-school care, is open during school holidays, and offers a summer camp.
Help finding a babysitterSitterCity.Com and Care.Com both offer military discounts. Use the sites to help you find credible, experienced babysitters and nannies in your area.
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I have a love/hate relationship with the crocodile clip. Nothing is so quick to lash together a few half-baked prototype boards on your desk, but nothing ends up in such a tangle so quickly, either. I love the range of pretty colors that crocodiles come in, as well as the easy ability to just clip on to the side of a PCB, or any old loose wire. But they come loose, they can have intermittent contacts, and we're not even sure if there is such a thing as a current rating for them.
When [WarriorRocker] wrote in asking what we use instead of crocodile clips, he included a photo that sent a chill down my spine, from a review of some clips on Amazon. I've seen this one in real life. And what's worse is the one with the loose wires that sometimes make contact with the spring-clip body and sometimes not.
After an hour-long debugging session about twelve years ago now, such an intermittent croc caused us to make a lifelong vow. All of our croco-clips have been disassembled, manually inspected, and many of them soldered together. When I buy new ones, I check them all before mixing them in with the known-goods. Even thinking about this now makes me want to pull back their little rubber booties just to make sure. Continue reading "Ask Hackaday: Bitten By The Crocodile Clip" →
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