WATERTOWN, Mass., Sep 12, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NASDAQ: BFAM), the world's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, early education, and work/life solutions is offering to the media and general public access to the Web site: www.brighthorizons.com/talktochildren. The Web site offers advice from child development experts about how parents and caregivers can talk to young children and offer them comfort and support in times of tragedy.

The Web site was designed for the more than 40,000 families who enroll their children in Bright Horizons child care and early education centers. Due to the demand from others, we welcome you to use this site for news reporting, and invite you to share it with your employee populations or any other groups of parents you feel might find it helpful. Bright Horizons will continue to add content to this site over the coming days and weeks.

    Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Bright Horizons Family Solutions is the world's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, early education and work/life consulting services, managing more than 365 child care and early education centers in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Bright Horizons serves more than 300 clients, including 81 FORTUNE 500 companies and 44 of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers," as recognized by Working Mother magazine. Bright Horizons was recently named one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" by FORTUNE magazine.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Bright Horizons Family Solutions' actual results may vary significantly from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including the ability of the Company to execute contracts relating to new commitments, to enroll families in new as well as existing centers, to open new centers for clients who control construction, as well as other factors that are discussed in detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Risk Factors" section in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000.

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                  Ilene Hoffer
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