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You should be asking about what vetting the "parents" did of that "daycare." We were very careful vetting our caregivers.
I doubt that person has any concept of how we live. She simply cannot understand that normal people don’t drop their kids off in ghetto basements to go deliver food on scooters all day.
I doubt that person has any concept of how we live. She simply cannot understand that normal people don’t drop their kids off in ghetto basements to go deliver food on scooters all day.
The right question is if they even care about their kids' exposure to miscreants, or about their kids, period.
So many non-New Yorkers talking about accessibility and affordability to/of daycare in this city as a whole, and in the Bronx and this neighborhood particularly. The daycare was licensed and inspected, such as it was. Many NYC residents receive vouchers to help pay for childcare costs as they are crazy, crazy expensive.
In the neighborhood I grew up in, in the Bronx, local daycare charges, at a minimum depending on the age of the child, nearly $1500 a month. A parent/guardian often cannot afford that in this city and will qualify for assistance. Sadly, not all daycares accept those programs, and hands are easily tied in finding a center that would tick every single box that takes a program. I have employer-funded union-driven childcare (do not utilize it as I do not have children) and even that is a reimbursement system, and most cannot afford to wait on their money.
The bottom line, folks gotta work in this city, and when they don't all we hear is how they bleed the system for social safety nets. *eye roll*
So many non-New Yorkers talking about accessibility and affordability to/of daycare in this city as a whole, and in the Bronx and this neighborhood particularly. The daycare was licensed and inspected, such as it was. Many NYC residents receive vouchers to help pay for childcare costs as they are crazy, crazy expensive.
In the neighborhood I grew up in, in the Bronx, local daycare charges, at a minimum depending on the age of the child, nearly $1500 a month. A parent/guardian often cannot afford that in this city and will qualify for assistance. Sadly, not all daycares accept those programs, and hands are easily tied in finding a center that would tick every single box that takes a program. I have employer-funded union-driven childcare (do not utilize it as I do not have children) and even that is a reimbursement system, and most cannot afford to wait on their money.
The bottom line, folks gotta work in this city, and when they don't all we hear is how they bleed the system for social safety nets. *eye roll*
I paid for my kids' day care - in NYC. I still pay for their private and home schooling, both of which also happen to be in NYC.
We visited who knows how many day cares before settling on one we TRUSTED, and could vet their safety record. Not by relying on some hokey political city agency but seeking out references from actual customers.
We didn't choose by affordability; we chose the BEST one for our kid, even though that meant tightening the belt in other ways.
Parents who can't afford kids shouldn't...
...have kids.
That's step one in the equation. Unfortunately for far too many, that's the one they pay the least attention to.
Too many of these latinas think Jesus will raise their kids so they have one every time they get pregnant.
Too many people that should not have kids have way too many kids.
Too many of these latinas think Jesus will raise their kids so they have one every time they get pregnant.
Too many people that should not have kids have way too many kids.
Jesus is too busy delivering food for Uber eats on his escooter.
I paid for my kids' day care - in NYC. I still pay for their private and home schooling, both of which also happen to be in NYC.
We visited who knows how many day cares before settling on one we TRUSTED, and could vet their safety record. Not by relying on some hokey political city agency but seeking out references from actual customers.
We didn't choose by affordability; we chose the BEST one for our kid, even though that meant tightening the belt in other ways.
Parents who can't afford kids shouldn't...
...have kids.
That's step one in the equation. Unfortunately for far too many, that's the one they pay the least attention to.
I’m glad to hear you’re privileged enough to have options for childcare. Not everyone does and more likely to not be so in lower socioeconomic communities.
Speaking personally, we don’t have children as we chose to wait- wait for completion of Masters level education, wait for better financial situation, wait to be able to avoid daycare and one of us be home until school age, etc. . And you know what happened? We waited too long and now I’m too old to have children without intervention. Like my mom said to me several times over the years, “You’ll never have enough money when you have kids, but you figure it out”.
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