Join our zero2eight Substack community for more discussion about the latest news in early care and education. For as long as anyone remembers, no childcare center on Kauaʻi has had a single opening for an infant or toddler. On this tropical island lush with vegetation, the childcare landscape is desolate. That amounts to about 10 to 14 seats for the 700 babies who are born on the island every year. Faced with a need that was growing more desperate, the island’s first known infant and toddler spots opened up by 2024.