Sharings

One of our biggest challenges was the rigidity of my work schedule. My son was born during a semester in which I was teaching three course sections, with the final section ending at 6:20 p.m. Although my employer formally offered six weeks…

Long waiting times at quality day care centers was the primary challenge for me. I have had to reduce my work hours or work late in the night to provide child care in combination with a part time nanny. Also, when the child is sick (which h…

In the US, the biggest childcare challenge was long waitlists, which left us stressed until the last moment -the semester was about to start and we still had no solution in place. There is also enormous variation between daycares in terms o…

The biggest hurdles we faced were the high cost of childcare and inconsistent service quality. Due to these issues, and also out of a desire to build a closer parent-child bond, we had to devote a huge amount of time to childcare ourselves.…

All of those, plus (limited) hours and (unlimited amount of) viruses of childcare centers.

All of these factors were relevant in making finding childcare difficult. From an everyday perspective, location was a primary criteria which quickly narrowed down to few affordable and quality options. Intermittent childcare has been extre…