bluephinChild Care Apprehensions
July 14th 2008 11:09
Double income family is a typical setup nowadays. What with the rising prices of everyday commodities, no wonder parents split the responsible of earning money so the whole family could have enough to spend for day to day expenses.
The downside of both parents having to work is the necessity for them to put their non-schooling kids to child care while they are working. Although this is an additional cost to pay, parent s doesn’t have a choice but to do it anyway.
But I guess, me and my husband are among those some who have apprehensions about putting their young kids to somebody else’s care. We are lucky that my husband could do shift work while I do normal hours. In that way, he can stay with the kids during the day while I am at work and he shoots off to work the moment I get home.
Primarily we are doing this because we try to have the capability to take care of our kids during their formative years and save up on child care expenses. But another factor that hinders us is the question that I always have at the back of my mind whenever child care is put in discussion: “Would child care staffs take care of my kids the same way that I do?”
Would they give him attention when he wants it? Would they give him a change of nappy or a bottle of milk when he needs it? Would they change his clothes if he is sweating like crazy? Would they comfort him when he cries? Would they be able to understand what he wants even if he baby talks?
Maybe not that much as the ratio is not one is to one. Maybe yes (to some percentage) because they wouldn’t be working in child care if they don’t adore kids and if they are not qualified to work there anyway.
I guess I’m just afraid of the need to confront their carer when I pick them up at the end of the day and they seem lonely or unattended to. Or perhaps, it’s a strike of guilt that I would be leaving my kids to somebody else’s care at the point of their life that they needed their mother…
The downside of both parents having to work is the necessity for them to put their non-schooling kids to child care while they are working. Although this is an additional cost to pay, parent s doesn’t have a choice but to do it anyway.
But I guess, me and my husband are among those some who have apprehensions about putting their young kids to somebody else’s care. We are lucky that my husband could do shift work while I do normal hours. In that way, he can stay with the kids during the day while I am at work and he shoots off to work the moment I get home.
Primarily we are doing this because we try to have the capability to take care of our kids during their formative years and save up on child care expenses. But another factor that hinders us is the question that I always have at the back of my mind whenever child care is put in discussion: “Would child care staffs take care of my kids the same way that I do?”
Would they give him attention when he wants it? Would they give him a change of nappy or a bottle of milk when he needs it? Would they change his clothes if he is sweating like crazy? Would they comfort him when he cries? Would they be able to understand what he wants even if he baby talks?
Maybe not that much as the ratio is not one is to one. Maybe yes (to some percentage) because they wouldn’t be working in child care if they don’t adore kids and if they are not qualified to work there anyway.
I guess I’m just afraid of the need to confront their carer when I pick them up at the end of the day and they seem lonely or unattended to. Or perhaps, it’s a strike of guilt that I would be leaving my kids to somebody else’s care at the point of their life that they needed their mother…
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