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Life
Parenting & Child Care Resources
BabyNet: support network for
parents organized by members and sponsored by spouses&partners@mit,
Residential Life Programs, and the Graduate Student Office.
BabyNet's general meetings provide opportunities for parents
to connect with each other and for kids to play with other kids.
BabyNet encourages and supports its members to form babysitting
exchange groups where parents trade babysitting for free time
for themselves on a regular basis. BabyNet also runs a database
of parents who are interested in babysitting exchange on a one-time
basis (e.g. for emergency situations). To learn more about upcoming
events or to sign up for the mailing lists visit BabyNet's website.
For questions email babynetinfo@mit.edu.
http://web.mit.edu/babynet/
Babysitting@MIT: organized by
spouses&partners@mit and Residential Life Programs and sponsored
by the Graduate Student Office, Babysitting@MIT provides childcare
at on-campus meetings for students and their families so that
they might attend meetings of organizations which have a direct
impact on graduate student families. This offers graduate student
families the opportunity to connect with other students, share
experiences, advocate, and educate others about issues that
impact graduate family life. Babysitters attend CPR training
and Babysitting Best Practices seminar. For more information
about the program or to learn how to hire sitters for your meetings,
please contact Jennifer Recklet at reck@med.mit.edu.
Child Care Advisory Committee: advises
the Center for Work, Family & Personal Life in critical
areas related to the development and oversight of MIT's childcare
programs.
http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/cc_advisory.html
Housing at MIT: listing of support
services, day care providers and area schools
http://web.mit.edu/housing/och/services.html#childcare
Massachusetts Child Care Services Page:
includes a search function to locate child care providers near
where you live. http://www.qualitychildcare.org/
parentsneedsitters@mit.edu & babysitters@mit.edu:
listservs for parents who are seeking babysitters and for students
and other MIT community members who are looking for babysitting
jobs. To find a babysitter you either can sign up for the parentsneedsitters@mit.edu
list and receive email from baby sitters who would like to sit
for parents. Or you can send an email to babysitters@mit.edu
(without being registered on that list) to post your babysitting
needs. The babysitters@mit.edu list includes other parents,
students, and staff of MIT that are wanting to baby-sit. In
your message, you may want to include your name, sitting needs,
ages of children, and hours of need with either a return email
address and/or phone number (your discretion). Sending an email
to babysitters@mit.edu will reach all the sitters on the list.
To sign up for the lists visit the Athena listserv web site
https://ca.mit.edu/moira/index.jhtml
using an MIT registered computer and fill out the form:
1. Check off "add yourself to the list"
2. Type in the "enter a list name" box: "parentsneedsitters"
3. Either press enter on your keyboard or select 'Go'
If you don't have an MIT certificate or have other problems
with signing up for the lists you can email the list owner at
gabelard@mit.edu to request to be added to these lists.
You can link to info about the listservs at http://mit.edu/medical/spousesandpartners/faq/childcare.html#1
Spouses&Partners@MIT: support
network for the spouses and significant others of MIT students,
faculty and staff. At spouses&partners@mit, you can find
play groups, connect with other parents, and advertise your
babysitting needs on the website and email list.
http://web.mit.edu/medical/spousesandpartners/
Technology Children's Centers (TCC):
on-campus daycare
http://web.mit.edu/mitchildcare/
The MIT Center for Work, Family &
Personal Life: offers direct services and individualized
referrals to students, faculty, staff, and their families on
family-related matters. They provide resources on childcare
recruitment, screening, and employment, and have a list of MIT-affiliated
babysitters. http://web.mit.edu/hr/worklife/
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