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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: childcare
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Date: Fri, 16-Sep-83 17:03:41 EDT
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Recently my wife started looking for a job, and we wondered about childcare.
It turned out that we (in some ways) got the best of both worlds.  

My wife is now working as a child-care attendant.  She is not only permitted,
but even encouraged to take our 11-month old son with her.  He has benefitted
greatly from the arrangement.  In the first week (he was 9-months old) he
began to pick up verbal skills at an amazing rate.  He learned "bye-bye" in
just two days of watching kids get dropped off and picked up.  (Moms say 
goodbye when they leave the kid, then kids say bye-bye to each other when
one leaves.)  He has also learned to share, to play with other kids, and to
express himself to other adults.  He has also had to learn that mommy still
loves him even if she picks up another child.

The result of this is that if a situation arises such that my wife either
cases to work or decides to seek (and finds) other work, we will probably
continue to put him in day-care for a least a few hours a day 2 to 3 times
a week.  The social skills he learns there we could not teach him as well
at home.