Ep3. "When I let someone into my house, you become my family"

In this episode, host Kate MacCrimmon explores all the things in family child care in Wisconsin with Fernanda Leporace, owner of Paleta Family Day Care. Fernanda talks about her passion for caring for children and families and how her own child often pitches in with the children in her program. She describes how the fatigue from working long hours caught up to her and led her to decide to close one day a week so she had time to care for herself. Her connection to her colleagues and the long lasting relationships are what sustain her in this profession.

This Family Child Care series is produced by Kids Forward with the support of the Partnership of America's Children, Alliance for Early Success, and the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Mellon Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship Program. These podcasts are dedicated to highlighting the stories of everyday people in our communities on policy topics that affect us all. For this series, we focus on family child care providers, nearly half of the early care and education workforce.