{"id":809208,"date":"2025-12-25T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/?p=809208"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:22:36","slug":"teenage-interns-could-solve-the-child-care-shortage-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/teenage-interns-could-solve-the-child-care-shortage-in-the-us","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Interns Could Solve the Child Care Shortage in the US \u2014 Are They Coming to Your Preschool?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erica Meadows has a passion for kids<\/a> and early childhood education. But finding quality help is challenging in her home state of Maryland<\/a>. To combat the issue, Meadows works with high school students to help them foster a love of teaching<\/a>. The experience has proven to be successful in many ways. Meadows, who runs the preschool program at Loyola School<\/a> in Mount Vernon, told The Baltimore Banner<\/em> that finding people willing to work early childhood education hours isn’t easy. <\/p>

“You can get people to come in for a year or two, but then they don’t see a career path, so they’re like, ‘OK, this is a lot of hard work,’” Meadows said. “How do you encourage people to want to work with young children?”<\/p>