1994: What Does Childcare Actually Cost?

<p>Hey SO MONEY family — something special in your feed today.</p><br><p>My friend Lindsey Stanberry is taking over with an episode of <strong>Family Money</strong>, her new podcast series with Babylist through <a href="thepurse.co/"; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Purse</a>. Lindsey has been covering women, work, and money for over a decade, and what she's building here is exactly the kind of honest, practical conversation that parents need and almost nobody is having well.</p><p>And yes — I'm in this one.</p><br><p>The episode is called <strong>"What Does Childcare Actually Cost?"</strong> and it does exactly what it says. Lindsey talks with economist <strong>Corinne Low</strong> — Associate Professor at the Wharton School and author of the USA Today bestseller <em>Having It All</em> — who reframes childcare not as a money pit but as an investment in your time, your career, and your family's future. Then I join to walk through the real numbers: daycare centers, nanny shares, au pairs, in-home care, the grandparent option nobody talks about enough — what each one actually costs and how to figure out what's right for your family.</p><p>We also get into something that drives me crazy: this idea that childcare costs come out of the mother's salary. They don't. They come out of your family's future. And once you see it that way, everything changes.</p><br><p>If you're expecting, deep in the daycare years, or just trying to get ahead of it — this episode is for you. Give <a href="babylist.com/podcast/introducing-family-money-…; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Family Money a follow wherever you listen</a>. Lindsey is doing incredible work.</p><p><strong>How's midlife going? <a href="jotform.com/build/262556781257063"; rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fill out Farnoosh's survey</a> and help shape the podcast in 2027.</strong></p>

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