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July 21, 2010 - SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

New survey says California's child care centers not notifying parents of pesticide use

A new survey of California's child care centers found that more than half of them are ignoring state regulations to notify parents that they are using potentially dangerous pesticide....

 "We have kids who put things in their mouth constantly. If anything were toxic near them, that would be awful," said Felicity Chapman, founder of Cubes&Crayons, an organic and pesticide-free day care in Mountain View. "I don't think toxins should be near children. We as a society definitely gone the wrong way thinking that we can use all these chemicals to fight off things. It's not good for children's health."  Read more...

 

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May 25, 2010 - REDBOOK MAGAZINE

Clever Childcare Solutions Beyond Daycare

M.F. Chapman's flexible work schedule was a little too flexible: She couldn't find childcare for her unpredictable hours. So she came up with a clever way to help other working moms like her.  Read more...


 
 

January 7, 2010 - CNN

Working in Wi-Fi Limbo

"This center is a great example of how some groups are taking on a community center model that reaches beyond shared office space," says Durst, author of "Work at Home Now," about Cubes&Crayons.  Read more...

 

July 16 - 29, 2008 - The Wave Magazine


Co-working in Silicon Valley
Cubes & Crayons mixes 'coworking' with child care

Then there are places like Menlo Park-based Cubes & Crayons, which combines co-working space with child day care. Cubes & Crayons has become a unique business model that has many people pleading with founder M. F. Chapman to open one in their city.
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July 23, 2008 - The Almanac Online


In Business: Taking the kids to work

The challenge is eating the cake and still having it.

In this case, the cake is a red velvet career with a corner office and fulfilling work, all mixed up with angel food family life with children, a minivan, and violin recitals.
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June 26, 2008 - Article in New York Times' Fashion & Style section
Life’s Work - Working Alone in a Group

At Cubes and Crayons in Menlo Park, Calif., most of the clients are women, which is not typical. Child care is part of the package. The 60 members can drop off their children and work in a quiet lounge a few yards away.
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May 3, 2008 - Interview on KPIX, CBS5, San Francisco
Peninsula Parents Combine Office Space, Daycare

MENLO PARK (CBS) - Parents who work from home with their young children around know it's a challenge. Now, one Bay Area entrepreneur is offering a new solution to the challenge of juggling work and child care.

A Menlo Park company is offering office space, with child care thrown in.  watch the video...

 


 

May 2008 - Featured in Bay Area Parent Magazine
When Office Space Meets Childcare

Knowing that there are plenty of virtual, flexible workers out there – many of them mothers – Felicity Chapman hatched another novel business. Cubes & Crayons, which opened in January in Menlo Park, offers office space and child care, both available on a flexible basis.  Read more at Bay Area Parent online...

 


 

April 2008 - Featured in Silicon Valley Business Journal
On-demand workspace plus child care equals early success
All work and all play has made Cubes & Crayons a success.

The Menlo Park company, which offers flexible office space combined with a child-care facility, has generated lots of buzz in the media and among parenting and co-working groups alike -- not bad, considering the business has only been open since January.  Read more...

 


 

April 2008 - Featured in S.F. Gate
Office plans, complete with crayons
Heather McLeod Grant had a 1 p.m. conference call and a 4-year-old daughter who was home from preschool for the day but would not nap. As the call began, she could hear Somerset stirring in her room. Then she heard jumping. Finally a little head peeked in the door and grinned. "Mommy, I not sleeping," Somerset said. Read more...


 

February 2008 - Featured in Gentry Magazine
Innovative Ideas and Artistic Endeavors
Office space and kid space
Your most important client has just called. You're about to deliver the status report that you've been polishing for the last week and your three–year–old choosed now to experiment with ketchup on the living room walls. For anyone who tele–communtes and works from home the aforementioned scenario seems all to familiar.
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January 2008 - Featured in Business Section of Palo Alto Weekly
Office space meets child care
Cubes&Crayons mixes work space for professionals, 'kid space' for children
by Veronica Sudekum

New parents caught in between the competing responsibilities of work and home have a new champion — and as of this week, a new place where the office and child care center merge into a single, supportive environment. Read more...