Moms, dads – this place is really for you

Let’s say you’re a parent, and you want to go down to the YMCA for a morning or evening workout, but your spouse is at work, you don’t want to go to the trouble of finding a babysitter just to go sweat for an hour …

So you think, I give up. I can’t just take the kids to the Y and leave them there while I do Nautilus and the treadmill.

Actually, yes, you can.

“A lot of people still don’t know that we’re here,” said Melody Mendicino, the director of YMCA Kids Place, which provides childcare weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4-7:30 p.m., and on Friday nights and Saturday mornings by appointment.

Kids Place takes infants as young as six weeks old and preteens up to 12 or 13. Read more