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…

I paid a deposit for a spot at the daycare when I was about 4 months pregnant, as there could have been a significant wait had I not. Fortunately for those living in my area, the current daycare that we use is expanding to a second location…

The childcare quality was fine. It was a bit pricey but not overly so.

Location. The daycare is a bit far from my home; it took 1.5 hours per day on the road to drop off and pick up my child. Expenses. It's not cheap.

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 fact that our parents were available was a big help

I was very fortunate that affordability was never an issue – rather, we had the opposite problem, we would rather have spent less time jockeying for position on waitlists. The biggest challenge is assessing whether a program is good (and go…

The biggest challenge was facing the uncertainty of not knowing if/when the childcare was going to be available.

While there are many options for day cares, such as day-care centers, it is still very challenging for the working parents to find coverage outside the 8~9 hrs of day-care coverage. Consider a tenure-track AP job which usually requires more…

Quality. It's hard to navigate work stresses and teaching responsibilities when kids have a tough time at the childcare place and then have tough emotions to process at home. The hours are also not suitable for evening teaching or Saturday,…

Even with the support of a strong childcare system, I still face significant challenges. Childcare does not depend solely on institutional support; it also requires a considerable amount of parents’ time, energy, and emotional attention. Ma…

Long waiting times ( in Canada), some teachers are not caring and difficult to switch class/daycare

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

The town we live in has only one childcare center. Luckily they had a spot when we needed it! We had to pay for the first half of the year while I was on leave (when we didn’t need childcare) to ensure our spot, though. Which was expensive!

Having two children has certainly impacted my work output and my mental well-being quite substantially, but childcare wasn't the issue. But then, my setup is very fortunate.

We did put ourselves on a waitlist but when ended up getting we had already adopted other solutions so we also concluded that its not reliable.