The Family Income Report provides color pictures showing trends of real median family incomes to increase awareness. Incomes have hardly improved past 2 1/2 decades, especially compared to the rate of improvement for prior generations – - especially for families with children – - while their tax rates for homes, FICA, etc. are much higher than prior generations. It is understandable such places economic stress on many families, forcing more mothers to seek work outside the home than might otherwise be the case – - and getting others to help pay day care cost is of interest to them.
Some family members justify their choice of mom working or not by saying it ‘takes 2 incomes to make ends meet,’ and they naturally hope for cheap daycare subsidized by others if possible. Yet the level of consumption & life style desired by some families (as necessary to ‘meet their needs’) may be much more than would be accepted by others as necessary to ‘meet their needs’ when considering priorities for mom to be home or not. For example, family A may desire consumption levels of new cars and furniture, eating out and packaged vacations requiring mom to work, whereas family B might reduce consumption by use of older cars and 2nd-hand furniture in a smaller house with only short vacations and less eating out – in order for mom to be at home full-time. Why, then, should government intervene to un-naturally shape social behavior and family choice in favor of those subcontracting childcare jobs (family A) vs. those families (family B) sacrificing consumptive life styles so mom can be at home because they believe a full-time mom is best and not want daycare of their children by others – - and when the ’stay-at-home-mother’ families would be required to chip in taxes to subsidize the others? Additionally, there is a Family C where high consumption can occur even if mom does not work, but mom wants to work for other reasons and therefore subcontracts daycare, but would also like day care subsidized by others. Is family B being discriminated against in favor of families A and C? Is it necessary for government to take actions promoting one family choice but not another?
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Transcribing is not as easy a solution as I thought it would be. The childcare jobs must be turned over in 24 hours. I would have to work all night to get them done. And if I work while Emma is asleep I chance waking her up (we currently live in a one room house). It’s hard to work during naptime since Emma wakes up whenever I work the transcriber. Since we’ve been living off of my savings all this time we’ve gotten a little rhythm going that’s been great for us on all possible levels except, obviously, financially. I’m having a hard time being a stay-at-home mom under my current circumstances and am feeling too pathetic to continue living in such poverty.
Well I stay at home with my son who is 14 months old and I cannot imagine leaving him in the “care” of a stranger. I do, however, understand that single mothers do not have many choices in their child care arrangements and have to make do with what they can get. And I do feel for those mothers. But for those two parent families who make good money and choose daycare for an infant rather than having someone stay home, I say shame on you.
There have been a lot of threads here about pre-schools and childcare jobs and I think Montessori got discussed a few times. The level of structure at a good Montessori is fine for babies, for the most part. It allows them to choose their own thing to do, except for ’circle time’ or meal time or outdoor play time. Frankly, it’s not so much the level of structure; it’s the content of the available play.
It sounds like you are dealing with your little ones by trying to entertain them. You are absolutely right that you can only do so much of these things. Perhaps it might help to focus on *including* rather than entertaining. Include them in the basic tasks of running the household. Even a toddler can “help” with cleaning cooking. You need to break the task down into very simple instructions. Say something like “Pick up all the blocks and put them in this basket.” Small children can “fluff” the pillow (although it may look more like wrestling) while someone bigger makes the bed. If you give them child-sized brooms or mops, they don’t actually clean anything at first but will probably be quite happy to feel like they are. Have them count along when you are measuring ingredients for cooking and give them a turn stirring.
If women have a “lock” on the childcare jobs (a 90% rate of awarding child custody to women reflects this) and on the “educational slots” that permit them to stay at home if they choose, then should we implement affirmative action for men? Unfortunately, there *aren’t* such “educational slots”. People don’t really learn how to parent. Most mothers (as well as fathers) often feel ill-equipped for the job. There aren’t really any educational programs (Home Ec is pretty negligible) for this purpose.
I agree that it would not help the workers much because the cost of living goes up even if they get no raise. So it goes up but they are now paying more, by the time the minimum wage is increased in 2007 they will be paying double at gas tanks, for rent, for CDs, and whatnot. To really make an impact they would have to earn at least $15.00 per hour for normal full time jobs. The salary for childcare jobs also increases.
