On top of that, a recent NPR program described a case where a group of boys is regularly asked to spend a portion of each week taking care of small babies. He announcer also mentioned that the boys now look forward to it. Unfortunately, I don’t have any more details on this, but it certainly sounds good. Indeed, very good! Those boys can now go out and get babysitting jobs or childcare jobs, moving in on the girls who monopolize it, and preparing themselves to be involved fathers.
Except that the current monopoly will work very hard to keep them off “their turf”. As does any monopoly which is threatened. Those boys are probably less likely to be afraid of, or threatened by, babies. However, they may be more aware of the responsibilities of: kids. In practice you probably need to convince the parents (especially mothers), who are the people who select babysitters… Chances are that if you are human, you have been babysat before.
It makes a certain amount of theoretical sense, and, yes, you’re off-base on this. First, parents (or other guardians) have a joint full responsibility for the child. If they agree on a 50-50 split, and one of them (for any reason) does only 25 percent of the work at a given time, the other one can’t just stand back and say, “I’m doing my 50 percent.” The _work_ may be split 50-50, but the _responsibility_ is split 100-100. I just don’t see it making sense, socially, legally, or in any other real-world way, for an employer to be in a position to say, “Yes, your child has a high fever, but we think your spouse should take a sick day instead, so the kid’s just going to have to sit home alone and uncared for.”
As a child-care provider, I would not have a problem being video-taped, but only if I were informed that it might be happening. I would be very uncomfortable if I were to find out later that it had happened and lose my respect and trust for my employer and probably leave the position that may have otherwise been a good match for each of us.
Child care providers want the Government to change the Employment Relations Bill – and National has promised to fight to get them excluded from the Bill, Opposition Industrial Relations spokesperson Max Bradford said today. ”Providers of home based child care are calling on the Government to exclude them from the dependent contractor provisions in the Bill. “But so far the Government has turned a deaf ear. National will ensure the Government gets the message of concern. ”We are getting extensive feedback from our 40,000 plus mail out of a flyer on the Employment Relations Bill and it isn’t only small business who is worried about the impact on their livelihoods.
The major regulatory decisions were made to assure States have adequate information upon which to base their child care payments; promote public involvement in the Plan process; strengthen health and safety in child care by requiring children receiving CCDF subsidies to be age-appropriately immunized; require coordination between childcare jobs Lead Agencies and agencies administering TANF, health, education and employment programs; streamline the CCDF application and Plan; and provide clarifications based on experience operating both the CCDBG program and the now-repealed title IV-A programs.
Policies for day care and education for children under eight are to be merged under one Government department. The Department for Education and Employment will take on responsibility, from the Department of Health, for day care, including the regulation of nurseries and child minders. The policy transfer will not directly alter the work of local education and social services departments.
For mother no qualifications are required to get the job and no one interviews you beforehand to check that you are suitable for the position. This ‘anyone can do it’ degrades motherhood from the word go. Well, it’s true – anyone CAN do it…but not everyone can do a GOOD job of it. Personally I would like to see our government introduce voluntary courses in childcare aspects such as nutrition, discipline, morality, mental and physical development – with attendance/passing exams bringing a recognized qualification.
There are lot things to think about when it comes to choosing child care. Our children mean the world to us. I agree with most of the posts found in this string; even though most contradict each other. That is because child care is a very personal choice. It would be wrong for me to tell you that center or home based care would be bad for a child. Nor, would I feel right about working mothers were bad or stay home mothers are bad for their children. These are choices we often are a little unsure of how to choose.
I can respond to this (having been a teenage sitter not so terribly long ago, and underpaying sitters being one of my major peeves). $5 is *not* unreasonable in many areas for a sitter. On the subject of MacDonalds, most McD’s don’t pay minimum wage – they pay in the $5 range per hour as well. Yes, you have to get yourself there – but you get company with other teens and occasional breaks.
