SALE PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
                          (Senior Director or Director)


((MSHA_Date))

((First_Name)) ((Last_Name))
((Job_Title))
KinderCare Learning Centers, Inc.
650 NE Holladay, Suite 1400
Portland, Oregon 97232

     You have entered into a Management Stockholder's Agreement, dated as of
((MSHA_Date)) between KinderCare Learning Centers, Inc., a Delaware corporation
("the Company"), and you (the "Stockholder's Agreement") relating to the grant
(and possible future grant) to you of options (the "Options") to purchase from
the Company shares of the common stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company
(the "Common Stock"). The undersigned, KKR Partners II, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership ("KKR Partners"), and KLC Associates, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership ("KLC Associates"), have purchased shares of common stock of the
Company and hereby agree with you as follows, effective upon a purchase of
Common Stock by you pursuant to exercise of any of the Options:

     1. In the event that at any time KKR Partners, or KLC Associates, as the
case may be (each, a "Selling Partnership" and collectively, the "Selling
Partnerships"), proposes to sell for cash or any other consideration any shares
of common stock of the Company owned by it, in any transaction other than
pursuant to a public offer or sale of shares of the Company's common stock or a
sale to an affiliate of KKR Partners or KLC Associates, as the case may be, the
Selling Partnership will notify you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's
Trust (as such terms are defined in Section 2 of the Stockholder's Agreement),
as the case may be, in writing (a "Notice") of such proposed sale (a "Proposed
Sale") and the material terms of the Proposed Sale as of the date of the Notice
(the "Material Terms") promptly, and in any event not less than 15 days prior to
the consummation of the Proposed Sale and not more than 5 days after the
execution of the definitive agreement relating to the Proposed Sale, if any (the
"Sale Agreement"). If within 10 days of your or your Purchaser's Estate's or
Purchaser's Trust's, as the case may be, receipt of such Notice the Selling
Partnership receives from you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust,
as the case may be, a written request (a "Request") to include Common Stock held
by you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be, in
the Proposed Sale (which Request shall be irrevocable unless (a) there shall be
a material adverse change in the Material Terms or (b) if otherwise mutually
agreed to in writing by you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as
the case may be, and the Selling Partnership), the Common Stock held by you will
be so included as provided herein; provided that only one Request, which shall
be executed by you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as the case
may be, may be delivered with respect to any Proposed Sale for all Common Stock
held by you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust. Promptly after the
consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, the Selling Partnership
will furnish you, your Purchaser's Trust or your Purchaser's Estate with a copy
of the Sale Agreement, if any. In the event that both KKR Partners

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and KLC Associates propose to sell shares of common stock in the Proposed Sale,
the term "Selling Partnership" shall refer only to KLC Associates and not to KKR
Partners.

     2. The number of shares of Common Stock which you or your Purchaser's
Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be, will be permitted to include in
a Proposed Sale pursuant to a Request will be the lesser of (a) the sum of the
number of shares of Common Stock then owned by you or your Purchaser's Estate or
Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be, plus all shares of Common Stock which you
are then entitled to acquire under an unexercised option to purchase shares of
Common Stock, to the extent such option is then vested or would become vested as
a result of the consummation of the Proposed Sale and (b) the sum of the shares
of Common Stock then owned by you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's
Trust, as the case may be, plus all shares of Common Stock which you are
entitled to acquire under an unexercised option to purchase shares of Common
Stock, whether or not fully vested, multiplied by a percentage calculated by
dividing the aggregate number of shares of common stock which KKR Partners and
KLC Associates propose to sell in the Proposed Sale by the total number of
shares of common stock owned by the Selling Partnership or, in the case both KKR
Partners and KLC Associates propose to sell in the Proposed Sale, KKR Partners
and KLC Associates. If one or more holders of shares of common stock who have
been granted the same rights granted to you or your Purchaser's Estate or
Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be, hereunder elect not to include the
maximum number of shares of common stock which such holders would have been
permitted to include in a Proposed Sale (the "Eligible Shares"), KKR Partners or
KLC Associates, or such remaining holders of shares of common stock, or any of
them, may sell in the Proposed Sale a number of additional shares of common
stock owned by any of them equal to their pro rata portion of the number of
Eligible Shares not included in the Proposed Sale, based on the relative number
of shares of common stock then held by each such holder, and such additional
shares of common stock which any such holder or holders propose to sell shall
not be included in any calculation made pursuant to the first sentence of this
Paragraph 2 for the purpose of determining the number of shares of Common Stock
which you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be,
will be permitted to include in a Proposed Sale. KKR Partners and KLC
Associates, or any of them, may sell in the Proposed Sale additional shares of
common stock owned by any of them equal to any remaining Eligible Shares which
will not be included in the Proposed Sale pursuant to the foregoing. For
purposes of this Agreement, Common Stock is not deemed to be owned or held by
you if the Company's right to repurchase the Common Stock under Section 6 of the
Stockholders' Agreement has been triggered and such right has not expired.

     3. Except as may otherwise be provided herein, shares of Common Stock
subject to a Request will be included in a Proposed Sale pursuant hereto and in
any agreements with purchasers relating thereto on the same terms and subject to
the same conditions applicable to the shares of common stock which the Selling
Partnership proposes to sell in the Proposed Sale. Such terms and conditions
shall include, without limitation: the sale price; the payment of fees,
commissions and expenses; the provision of, and representation and warranty as
to, information requested by the Selling Partnership; and the provision of
requisite indemnifications; provided that any indemnification provided by you,
your Purchaser's Estate or your Purchaser's Trust shall be pro rata in
proportion with the number of shares of Common Stock to be sold.

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     4. Upon delivering a Request, you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's
Trust, as the case may be, will, if requested by the Selling Partnership,
execute and deliver a custody agreement and power of attorney in form and
substance satisfactory to the Selling Partnership with respect to the shares of
Common Stock which are to be sold by you or your Purchaser's Estate or
Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be, pursuant hereto (a "Custody Agreement and
Power of Attorney"). The Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney will provide,
among other things, that you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as
the case may be, will deliver to and deposit in custody with the custodian and
attorney-in-fact named therein a certificate or certificates representing such
shares of Common Stock (duly endorsed in blank by the registered owner or owners
thereof) and irrevocably appoint said custodian and attorney-in-fact as your or
your Purchaser's Estate's or Purchaser's Trust's, as the case may be, agent and
attorney-in-fact with full power and authority to act under the Custody
Agreement and Power of Attorney on your or your Purchaser's Estate's or
Purchaser's Trust's, as the case may be, behalf with respect to the matters
specified therein.

     5. Your or your Purchaser's Estate's or Purchaser's Trust's, as the case
may be, right pursuant hereto to participate in a Proposed Sale shall be
contingent on your or your Purchaser's Estate's or Purchaser's Trust's, as the
case may be, strict compliance with each of the provisions hereof and your or
your Purchaser's Estate's or Purchaser's Trust's or, as the case may be,
willingness to execute such documents in connection therewith as may be
reasonably requested by the Selling Partnership.

     6. In the event of a Proposed Sale pursuant to Section 1 hereof, the
Selling Partnerships may elect, by so specifying in the Notice, to require you
or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be, to, and you
or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as the case may be, will,
participate in such Proposed Sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of
Section 2, 3 and 4 hereof.

     7. The obligations of KKR Partners and KLC Associates hereunder shall
extend only to you or your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, as the case
may be, and no other of your or your Purchaser's Estate's or Purchaser's
Trust's, as the case may be, successors or assigns shall have any rights
pursuant hereto.

     8. This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect on
the fifth anniversary of the first occurrence of a Public Offering (as defined
in the Stockholder's Agreement).

     9. All notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in
writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered to the party
to whom it is directed:

          (a)  If to KKR Partners or KLC Associates, to it at the following
               address:

                    c/o Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
                    9 West 57th Street
                    New York, New York 10019
                    Attn:  Scott Nuttall

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          with a copy to:

                    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
                    425 Lexington Avenue
                    New York, New York  10017
                    Attn:  David J. Sorkin, Esq.

          (b)  If to you, to you at the address first set forth above herein;

          (c)  If to your Purchaser's Estate or Purchaser's Trust, at the
               address provided to such partnerships by such entity;

or at such other address as any of the above shall have specified by notice in
writing delivered to the others by certified mail.

     10. The laws of the State of Delaware (or if the Company reincorporates in
another state, of that state) shall govern the interpretation, validity and
performance of the terms of this Agreement. No suit, action or proceeding with
respect to this Agreement may be brought in any court or before any similar
authority other than in a court of competent jurisdiction in the States of
Delaware (or if the Company reincorporates in another state, of that state), as
the Selling Partnerships may elect in their sole discretion, and you hereby
submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of such
suit, proceeding or judgment. You hereby irrevocably waive any right which you
may have had to bring such an action in any other court, domestic or foreign, or
before any similar domestic or foreign authority.

     11. If KKR Partners or KLC Associates transfers its interest in the Company
to an affiliate of KKR Partners or KLC Associates, as the case may be, such
affiliate shall assume the obligations hereunder of KKR Partners or KLC
Associates, as the case may be.

     It is the understanding of the undersigned that you are aware that no
Proposed Sale presently is contemplated and that such a sale may never occur.

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     If the foregoing accurately sets forth our agreement, please acknowledge
your acceptance thereof in the space provided below for that purpose.

                                       Very truly yours,

                                       KKR PARTNERS II, L.P.
                                       By: KKR Associates L.P., the General
                                           Partner

                                       By:
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                                       KLC ASSOCIATES, L.P.
                                       By: KKR Associates L.P., the General
                                           Partner

                                       By:
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Accepted and agreed to:

By:
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   ((First_Name))((Last_Name))

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