Blog #7 - Working Poor Women’s Paid Labor

One of the best things that can be provided to a child is the consistent routines to helping the child develop and grow. With this when you are able to keep the child’s mind continually stimulated it will payoff for them. This is one of the best things for a child when they are in a day care environment. Usually when you use a very large or very organized child care this is one of the main things that are provided in their program. However, if you can’t afford this type of service you probably will not have very much luck finding this sort of service of poverty wages.

With minimum wage jobs you have a hard time finding this sort of service to provide it to your child. Like everything else in our country this sort of thing costs money. When you are looking for a service of this magnitude it can become very pricy when you are already having a hard time making ends meet. With that what usually occurs? Well, you usually find people reverting to the less organized daycare. This is the sort of daycare that when you drop your child off you are not sure really what they are going to do. One day they may play outside all day. While the following day they may be put in front of the television to be kept occupied as usually these sort of daycares are ran out of someone’s home that is a stay at home parent looking to make a little income.

In the videos a few of the parents reference working from home, while some parents may adjust their schedules so that one works early and the other works late so they can afford childcare. While other parents are more concerned about having that consistency; one of the parents in the third section spoke about how the grandmother is always home for the child. As unfortunate as that sounds, it’s a little bit better because they are consistently dealing with the same parent.

For this section I hate to be the pester of the group but it’s very prevalent of the trend of these people that want someone to just come in and say I’m sorry here let me help you since you are not doing very good. If the people of our country took more of an initiative we may not have such a problem with poverty level families and them dealing with such a problem with money and childcare.

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