Whitney Lindsey, 33, swings at a golden baseball in support of the Family Enrichment Center event ‘Fore! our kids” hosted at the Bowling Green Country Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 20, 2026. Lindsey operates as the director for early childhood education at the Family Enrichment Center. “We are hosting this event to raise money since we are a non-profit,” said Lindsey. “It’s important to get out in the community so they remember we’re here.”

(Left to right) Whitney Lindsey, 33, begins to braid her daughter Everly’s, 3, hair as her youngest Hadley, 1, cries in their family home in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 24, 2026. Hadley was experiencing Hand Foot and Mouth disease for the third time in the past year. “This has been a rough year balancing doctor’s office visits and everything else,” Lindsey said.

Lindsey, 33, comforts daughter Hadley, 1, before dinnertime in their home in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 24, 2026.. “Usually during the week, we order out,” Lindsey said. “I wish I had the time to cook, but Everly has dance on Monday nights and that makes it hard for us. I feel bad about it sometimes.”

Lindsey, 33, catches up on emails between meetings in her office at Family Enrichment Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 24, 2026. Lindsey focuses her time into supervising all early education based programs as well as taking on a bigger role in the Wee Care Daycare at Family Enrichment Center. Lindsey previously served as a preschool teacher for ten years in Todd and Warren county schools.

Whitney Lindsey and Tonya Bradley, director of Wee Care Daycare, look over ECERS and STARS evaluation papers in the Wee Care Daycare office in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 24, 2026. The daycare is evaluated each year based on the Early Childhood Environment scale to ensure the building meets the requirements for a functional learning space.

Jessica Erickson (left) and Whitney Lindsey discuss the Parents as Teachers program to a prospective parent at the summer activities fair hosted at the Bowling Green Hot Rods stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 21, 2026. “These tabling events are a great way to reach people that otherwise may not have heard of us,” said Lindsey.

Patrick McReynolds listens while Lindsey and Erickson explain the Parents as Teachers program at the summer activities fair hosted at the Bowling Green Hot Rods stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 21, 2026. McReynolds was one of many children that learned more about the programs Family Enrichment Center hosted.

Whitney Lindsey performs a developmental analysis for Jaxon Smith, 2, while his mother Shawntay Smith holds him in the Smith’s home in Bowling Green, Kentucky on May 1, 2026. Lindsey has served the Smith family for close to a year visiting once a month to play educational games and inform on developmental milestones. “Whitney has been such a help this past year,” Smith said. “I was nervous about the program but it has been good to be a part of.”

Lindsey performs a test with Smith to determine how his motor skills are developing in the Smith’s home in Bowling Green, Kentucky on May 1, 2026. “She does a great job doing the activities with him, rather than me having to do it with him,” Lindsey said. “That is the goal of the program. The parents learning how to work with their child outside of my help.”

Whitney Lindsey and daughter Everly lounge while preparing for bedtime in their family home in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 24, 2026. “Bedtime is especially rough after working all day,” Lindsey said. “It can take an hour just to get Everly to bed.” Everly had gotten out of bed three times.