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CHILDCARE
A child younger than school age can be placed in a Day Care facility, a private center that takes children from infancy to age five all day, and children from age six to twelve for after school care.
Many Day Cares have special programs, such as “mother’s day out”. This can give mothers some time off to run errands once or twice a week. Churches usually offer good child care programs, but often have waiting lists.
It is always best to get recommendations from other satisfied parents and to visit the facility before you register your child. Find a center in the area where you live or work and look for a facility that has a small class size and a well trained and experienced staff.

There are also informal mothers groups who offer support and information to young mothers.

Bellaire Young Mothers is such a group offering mothers with pre-school age kids in bellaire and surrounding zip codes a great online resource, www.bellaireyoungmothers.org. You can buy and sell through their website, ask questions and get recommendations/answers from other mums. They arrange playgroups, mom's night outs, book group and other special interest groups, it is a go-to place for local info.

There are similar groups in the heights and Montrose and probably other places, depends where you live whether you qualify for the residency rules. Definitely worth looking into if you are moving in the inner loop with little kids..

Day care

A child younger than school age can be placed in a Day Care facility, a private center that takes children from infancy to age five all day, and children from age six to twelve for after school care.
Many Day Cares have special programs, such as “mother’s day out”. This can give mothers some time off to run errands once or twice a week. Churches usually offer good child care programs, but often have waiting lists.
It is always best to get recommendations from other satisfied parents and to visit the facility before you register your child. Find a center in the area where you live or work and look for a facility that has a small class size and a well trained and experienced staff.

La Maternelle
301 S Dairy Ashford
Houston TX, 77077
Tel : + 1281 589 7400
Fax : + 1 281 589 7402
E-mail : [email protected]
website: http://www.lamaternellecc.com
A French preschool inspired by French nurseries and preschools (called in french "la creche" or “la Maternelle”). The staff speak French, English and Arabic.
Office hours are from 9 am to 6 pm.

Day-Care Information Hotline
Tel: + 1 (800) 862 5252

Daycare Licensing Offices
POB 16017
Houston, Texas 77222-6017
Tel: + 1 (713) 77 222

Daycare Licensing Office
Conroe 2017, Frazier Suite C-1
Conroe, Texas 77301
Tel: + 1 (401) 525 2181

Daycare Licensing Office
Galveston 123, Rosemberg Suite 500
Galveston, Texas
Tel: + 1 409 766 5959

Daycare Licensing Offices
201 E Myrtle
Angleton, Texas 77515
Tel: + 1 (409) 848 5642

Hourly care

This is not a Day Care facility; it's a safe place to leave your child, if you need a few hours to run errands. To use this service, you are required to pay a yearly registration fee and an hourly rate afterwards.
A child younger than school age can be placed in a Day Care facility, a private center that takes children from infancy to age five all day, and children from age six to twelve for after school care.
Many Day Cares have special programs, such as “mother’s day out”. This can give mothers some time off to run errands once or twice a week. Churches usually offer good child care programs, but often have waiting lists.
It is always best to get recommendations from other satisfied parents and to visit the facility before you register your child. Find a center in the area where you live or work and look for a facility that has a small class size and a well trained and experienced staff.

Munchkins
521 S. Mason Rd
Katy, Texas
Tel: + 1 (281) 398 3636
Also a location in Sugar Land, Texas on Lexington Blvd

Child Time Crème de la Crème
9450 W Bellfort
Houston
Texas
United States
Tel: + 1 (713) 777 7854

La Petite Academy
11803 Briar Forest Dr
Houston, Texas
Tel: + 1 (713) 496 4400

Montessori
13555 Briar Forest Dr
Houston, Texas
Tel: + 1 (281) 556 5970

BABY-SITTING

Babysitting is a terrific way for teenagers to earn some money, gain some responsibility and the Red Cross even offers a course to help your child to be qualified in baby-sitting practises.
It is a smart idea for your child to ask the family for a letter of recommendation; this can be used as a reference to demonstrate your child's ability to find work and earn pocket money in the future. The only difficulty that your child may face in finding regular work as a babysitter or formal work in other sectors, is the need for a social security number.
Babysitters can be found in Houston with ease in the majority of locations, however, if you live outside the city limits, it can become more difficult finding suitable qualified people. To find a babysitter, look in the local sub-division newsletter for a listing, ask at the local community place of worship or ask your neighbors about any qualified babysitters they may know.
You may find that in Houston, as entertainment is family-style, babysitters are not used as frequently as you may have found elsewhere.
It's not unsual to find girl or boy babysitters as young as fifteen years old. Finding older babysitters can be difficult, unless you are living in a more centralized area, as most seventeen and eighteen year olds are away at college, which means that fifteen or sixteen year olds are the available resource.
Most babysitters will be trained in first aid and other babysitting skills by the Red Cross and you may ask for references.
Depending on the sitters age, experience or qualifications, you can expect to pay anything from $7.00 to $13.00 an hour.
It is best to book a babysitter in advance, and it's quite difficult to find a sitter on school nights - August through May. A sitter will want to know before hand what time you intend to return home; this can put a damper on the nights outing!