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uh do you have young children
uh-huh i have got two one is uh two and the other one's four and um this is my first year of staying home i've always had them in child care
oh well then you are familiar with it
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okay i uh i have grandchildren and i know uh one has gone to a well two of them have gone to preschool and i know what the experience my daughter has faced with that why don't you tell me what you have found
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well um it was our second sitter the first one didn't quite work out um there were some things going on that i wasn't really happy with and so i felt that
that i need to move on with them and so i found another babysitter and she was wonderful except i thought that there were too many in the home
and it just seemed like it was so hard to find uh really good child care she was wonderful it's just that i felt that there were too many in the home it was in home child care
okay so you
okay so it was in home child care you took them to someone's home
uh-huh all right
well both times
uh-huh right
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and um
and then i worked in in a child care centers and i wasn't really happy with the particular one that i was working in
so i just always had a fear about you know child care centers so that's why i put him in a in a in home day care
oh uh-huh
um-hum and then i just decided that i was just missing a lot of their time whether they were so little and and i couldn't get off of work as often as i wanted to when they were ill
so i just decided it was probably best just to stay home for a while until they were a little more
uh independent and uh i could go back to work
i know that in raising my children uh
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i was fortunate i
didn't have to work we didn't necessarily have a lot of things but uh i didn't and know my daughter because she has three and
yeah that's how it's going now
to have three in day care you know even though one of them's in school full time one of them's you know in kindergarten
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that is a lot of money i mean it's so expensive you have to really make a lot of money and i'm glad that she gets to stay home so that she can then participate with what's going on in their life
oh yeah
yeah
yeah
uh bosses don't always seem to understand getting off to go to Christmas programs in the middle of the day or something and
oh no yeah
you know and i know that one of the day cares and it's a a well-known chain
um she was not at all happy with it because was there was too many children per person
they were just kind of left to play there was no structure to it and the middle grandson went there as a uh
like a preschool thing she was wanting him actually to start getting a certain amount of of learning and training and stuff not just there you know so he went like uh
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i think he went
well five mornings a week if i remember correctly and um
wow
you know and it was supposed to be a basic you know starting to learn the colors and and learning to associate with children so that when he went to you know a school
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and stuff and uh she was most unhappy with it there was no structure there was nothing to it you know and uh she pulled him out of that one and put him in a another one that was excellent it was it was like a little kindergarten
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and uh
uh they had hot lunches and and they had classes that you know one class they'd do art they even familiarized the children with computers uh it was just it was really a very excellent one
oh
uh-huh and how old is he
he's now five and a half he's in kindergarten this was last year
oh uh-huh
and uh so you know it helped him and and the first one uh
he went to a uh church preschool that was very good the Methodist Church in Richardson the big one and it was a excellent they very good it
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oh
yes my little boy goes to the Methodist um in Garland um-hum i'm real happy with that one
oh does he
yeah they uh the church ones church ones seem to be very well run
i
well i've i've heard that the Methodist ones are excellent even uh-huh
oh really
even the even their Mother's Day Out programs i heard are really good
oh i had uh i just assumed that most churches going by you know experience there that you know that they were good i i didn't know that uh
yeah
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you know i'm not that familiar i just know that you know First United Methodist there at Richardson was just a great program
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yeah because this is First United Methodist in Garland that he goes to and i'm real happy with that
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yeah it's a pretty good size church too isn't it
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yeah well that a claim
so
well are you enjoying staying home
yes i am uh i taught for Richardson School District
oh uh-huh
and uh i taught early childhood and uh i really enjoyed it but it was just it was taking a lot of my time and i noticed i was spending less and less time with them and it just seemed like they were sick more often and i just couldn't get the time off to
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so
well isn't it very hard to teach young children and then come home and deal with young children and have enthusiasm
yeah it is it really is yeah it really is and i felt
