day-care provider

Ask your child’s day-care provider how they deal with the heat.

Burks says she worries about sending her children to a day-care provider who isn’t being paid a living wage.

How the center responds to that logical, justified query will tell you whether there needs to be a more formal next move, which can be as mild as keeping your kid home that day or as extreme as switching to a non-reactionary day-care provider.

In fact, it’s worth bringing things back to first principles here: If parents, with personal knowledge of their children’s wants and needs, decide that a certain home day-care provider is best, what business is it of the D.C. government to say what qualifications the carer should have?

Delores Blount, 74, a home day-care provider in Alexandria, Va., for 20 years who retired 10 years ago, died Jan. 7 at a health-care facility in Largo, Md. The cause was complications of covid-19, kidney failure, pneumonia and diabetes, said a son, Robert Wilson.