Summer Is the Season That Breaks Working Parents

June 5, 2026 – In a Fast Company article about how summer break creates stress for working parents by disrupting childcare routines, the author references data from the latest Bright Horizons Modern Family Index.

A recent Bright Horizons/Harris Poll survey found that 90% of working parents lose sleep over planning summer childcare and schedules. That sounds overly dramatic until you have personally tried to create an eight-week childcare plan around work deadlines and a ridiculously early pick-up window.

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