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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Again, I would just ask that you don't paint all parents with the same brush. A lot of parents do care.
Our daughter worked in the daycare industry for a while, and will do just about anything to keep her daughter out of it. So, she and her husband have different days off. She spends a lot of her free time figuring out grandparents schedules (including ours) so that the baby is always with a family member. (We watch her two to three days a week)
In our case, we simply decided to take a huge financial hit when our first was born so Mrs. DeltAlum could stay home with the children. It was difficult, but we managed. I'm not sure that our daughter and husband could do that on their entry level salaries in this economy.
You see parenthood from a very jaded perspective, as you watch people drop their children off in your care and drive off in their matching Beemers. (No, before anyone starts, all working parents and BMW drivers aren't bad parents -- simply using a stereotype for the sake of illustration) All parents aren't like that, and I suspect your 70% number is pretty high.
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The 70% also includes the school age children who sit in a classroom all day and then come to my daycare afterwards.I personally thought that I was being generous with that percentage.
Yes I am extremely jaded.It pisses me off when I find out that the same children who are waiting for me in the parking lot at 6am are the same ones who are still there at 6 or 6:30 at night when we close.My employers have often thought about staying open later but it would be those same children who stay later and later everynight.I really hate to be cynical but there simply are some parents who don't want to be bothered.There are children in my facility that my staff and I have practically raised ourselves.The interesting thing about this is,it is the children of older parents who are left for long hours in daycare.By older I mean over 25.The children of teenage parents and parents under 25 don't stay as long.Maybe things are starting to swing back around.