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Care may be understood as a basic form of interaction and a foundational need for human beings. For these reasons, care also presents challenges for ECEC staff. The staff must seek practical solutions to problems that philosophers have raised on a theoretical basis concerning ethical traditions, such as the ethics of care. These are the problems of justice, parochialism, and self-sacrifice. Design/Approach/Methods: This article develops a theory concerning the ethics of care in ECEC institutions. The theory is informed by qualitative interviews with ECEC teachers reflectingon their caring practices. The study is therefore located at the intersection of normative ethics and applied ethics. In seven in-depth interviews, the informants discussed how to create a caring ECEC environment that is fair and possible to maintain over time.  \nFindings: Through analyzing the interviews, I found that caring practices that work toward these ideals can be described as sustainable care. These practices take care of all the children and provide the staff with opportunities to regain the strength they need to create a caring and educating setting.  \nOriginality/Value: The theory this article develops makes ethics of care applicable and practically relevant to ECEC institutions.  \nCorresponding author:  \nGunnar Magnus Eidsvåg, Early Childhood Education, University of Stavanger, Hagbard Lines hus, Stavanger 4036, Norway. Email: [gunnar.m.eidsvag@uis.no](gunnar.m.eidsvag@uis.no)  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative  \nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ([https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)).  \nKeywords  \nCare, ECEC, ethics, profession, virtue  \nDate received: 31 August 2021; revised: 16 December 2021, 22 February 2022; accepted: 29 March 2022  \nIntroduction  \nAn often-quoted care ethicist, Nel Noddings, characterized the ethics of care as a relational approach to ethics (Noddings, 2002, p. 20) . In a caring encounter, there is a caregiver and a caredfor. A balanced relation allows the parties involved to take turns in the roles they have. This theory has a dyadic starting point.  \nHowever, in most early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, the group of children outnumbers the staff. This plain fact makes ECEC settings arenas where the staff must seek practical solutions to dilemmas that philosophers have raised on a theoretical basis concerning the ethics of care. These are the problems of justice, parochialism, and self-sacrifice. In this article, I study how experienced ECEC teachers deal with these issues. Through in-depth interviews, ECEC teachers reflect upon ethical implications in their caring practices. Based on their insights, I will situate the theory of care ethics in an ECEC setting. 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