so child care your views
uh well we only have one child right now and another one on the way and right now i'm i'm home with her during the day
i if i was looking for outside care i probably would stay away from professional child care centers
and try to find if i was close to home relatives or people with the same values and possibly religious faith or something similar so that she would be raised in an environment that would be
similar to what we would have in our own homes as as parents
and what religious faith
uh Latter Day Saints
oh
so
that's that's good
that's what i would try to do
with a teaching background i've um had a little bit of experience with some of the child day care type situations but i've seen some good ones and i've seen some really bad ones
uh they do seem to be at the outside edge of both extremes don't they
uh-huh and everything in between yeah because there's in most states there's nothing to regulate them
and so
and whenever
they are they seem to
regulate the good toward the bad instead of bad toward the good
right by trying to get them to conform to concern standards they uh kind of uh eliminate a lot of the
uh
better situations
yeah the the uh what am i trying to think of that
not the imagination but the creativity in in the situation and so
yeah yeah that's that that's very well phrased uh
so have you ever used outside child care
no i haven't we've had like people come in and babysit for an hour or two but i've never had um
real day care
right she's she's not even a year yet so
uh
we haven't been in you know a lot of need yet
our step daughter's ten now
uh-huh
and
most of the day care has been provide for by Grandma
yeah i like that situation that's usually real good
but
quite honestly what i believe to be
the best day care situation was while we lived up the pass of Woodland Park
uh-huh
there was uh
ex school teacher that uh
did
a small amount of before school and
and after school you know kindergartners or half-dayers
uh-huh
in her home
and they would read and play
have a relative structured a structured
seem to be
activities and not just you know stick them in a corner and say you're on your own
uh yeah and uh
despite
our beliefs
she was uh
one of the more um
charismatic Christian faiths
uh-huh
and it worked out wonderfully
yeah i know that um that
i guess if you have the opportunity to pick and choose and you've got the time and that uh
i don't know if the resources are the proper term you know just the the know knowledge of who's a available then you could probably find some really good care
uh yeah but i don't know that it would be state approved
that's true you can get somebody somebody willing to babysit but actual
you know that's sometimes different on a done on a different scale
i have even considered you know babysitting myself i have a teaching degree and uh
thought well you know i could structure and then for one reason or other decided not to
but i think if you take more than three children in well that was how it was this Virginia we've recently moved here to Texas
but in Virginia i think if you take more than three children in on more than a several hours a day bases you have to be licensed
i
now i don't know what the current Texas laws are
but i
but i do know that the license doesn't seem to
guarantee quality
yeah a lot of times you might just need to go now and feel file for it just like a business you may not have to prove any type of qualification for it i don't
uh
now here i believe that
child care
meets by and large certain standards for
uh
balanced food if they provide food
cleanliness
and
levels of supervision
uh-huh
levels being defined as
number of of working adults for
number of
children
uh-huh
but
that's uh kind of a minimum there that you're getting your covering basic care there and not
all the extras that most people would like to see
done with there children you know like the educational activities the supervised play and
so forth
yeah uh
my wife is uh agnostic
and i'm a
backsliding Presbyterian
i like that term
and uh
yet
i really believe that this
charismatic
care
or the charismatic belief when emphasized on care
or semi charismatic i might say
uh-huh
uh-huh
was quite good
yeah it was a good influence for your daughter uh
yes very
well that's good
and and
uh
the care is what i guess you should emphasize in the term child care instead of the child
uh-huh
yeah a little bit of love and and attention is what most of them need
you know even if it's
not a real educated program you can have good educational program and and
and not have any care
right and and that's not certainly what you want for your child or what you would give your child yourself
and so
and i'm not sure that really
child care per se should instill
any
education per se
you know what i'm saying
well even educated play uh supervised play can teach without and i'm not saying talking about sitting down and teaching them math or or or something like that but just kind of promoting social skills and uh
you know like my my child that she want be an only child for long but you know she was an only child or maybe your daughter not having yeah
proper interface
yeah just
it's just just correct ness of of
social skills if you will
uh-huh right those basic things that uh they would
that you know maybe a little bit of uh
i don't know if manners is a is a good term or not but you know dealing with other through uh
proper mannerisms and politeness and so forth you know that sort of thing you'd want your child to learn that
from been experience with i mean someone else certainly you wouldn't want your child's day care person to yell at them and scream at them and say do this do that you know you'd want them to
promote politeness and niceness you know the things that you would want any child to learn
and usually that's done through example not you know an actual sit down learn situation so
uh yeah uh
it's a very broad issue
uh-huh it is
and
you know it's a shame but most people doing child care
earn almost no money
they operate at you know um
the owner of the child of a you know we're talking large child care facility now we're not talking somebody that does six kids in their home or or three or or whatever
uh-huh
uh-huh
who really doesn't really put a lot of overhead whatever into it you mean somebody that has an actual establishment
right
yeah
their employees earn almost nothing
yeah
i know i i did that for summer so i can i can vouch for that
and and that's really a a shame too because
do you and your husband both work
no just he does i'm i'm here during the day with her
well that's wonderful if if you can make it that way
well we we decided to live with a uh uh lesser budget so that we have that that's more important to us
you know as as uh
there may come a time when i will be working again you know but right now that's what we've chosen and we wanted to have several we got her and we've got another on the way and
well like i said
may have another one soon after that so
that's
grand if if you can pull it off
right
but
more and more
we're being forced into a situation we as Americans are being forced into a situation
where
you've got to have
