At the end of month I’ll be losing 2 DC kids I’ve looked after since I started 2 years ago, they’re moving away. I had them since the youngest was 4 months old and the older one was 3 and I’m going to miss them so much, it’s like losing part of the family. There have been plenty of times at the end of a long hard day I’ve thought I wouldn’t miss them if I never saw them again, but now that it’s really happened I’m dreading them going.
My own children are going to miss these kids a lot too, especially the youngest one. Now I have to decide what to do next, hopefully by December I’ll have qualified and then there’s no limit to the childcare jobs I could apply for. My intention was always to look for something ‘better’, but now I’m wondering if there is anything better! It is very much sad to loose DC kids.
An increase in the number of women joining the workforce will increase the number of *underpaid* and underprivileged* daycare workers and therefore the implication is that Professional (e.g. well-paid) women should move out of the workforce and stay home with children so that somehow the situation of these daycare workers improves. This does not make sense because the more women there are that can *afford* good childcare, the more likely it is that the childcare workers will be better paid and get more benefits. Otherwise, the only childcare jobs available would need to be either poorly paid ones or subsidized somehow because the families using the childcare would be poorer families.
