all right do you have any kids
okay
no
i've got two and it is hard to find day care for them
what um what do you think needs to be the criteria set for those
oh
what would you like to see in one
well i i've seen the bad side in most of them
uh-huh
i took my son to a day care one time when he was just you know just uh not even three months old and uh you know it was a desperate thing
and uh when my husband went to pick him up she he said that the baby had been crying the whole time he was asleep but you know how they cry in their sleep
yeah
and uh you know this uh couldn't catch his breath even in his sleep and that turned me off of day cares
i bet
and then when i took uh
i've seen these kids that uh
it's a church volleyball they have a day care set up there for people playing volleyball and uh one of the girls was real mean to the kid
uh-huh
hm
and that was you know he she'd just she had treated him like family does you know and um
yeah
it you know it uh i know most of the girls up there and the ones that keeps my kids are real good uh my son doesn't like people too much
yeah
but uh when when we leave there he uh gives the girl a hug and tells her i'll miss you so you know
oh well that's good
so i know they treat him good
yeah
uh
is it
i don't know maybe would you think a
better student to teacher ratio
do they have too many kids in most day cares for the people they have
yeah yeah uh i don't know much about day cares itself you know uh you know this is more of just the nursery for three and under
um-hum
and uh there's only there's two people taking care of about five kids uh where i'm where i'm taking my two
uh-huh
and but uh in most places yeah they got forty five kids at best i guess
oh my goodness
you know and maybe about four teachers and that's a lot of kids
yeah um we don't yeah we don't have any but we have you know plenty of sisters and brothers that that have them and
uh
i'm not sure that there is a solution to that as far as uh the day there you know everybody has in their mind the kind of day care that they want but
it seems you know that there's not really the perfect one out there
no there's not nobody can take care of your kids better than you
right and that's not even possible anymore i don't think to be able to take care of your own kids without you know with everybody working these days
well i had to quit my job because of uh my my two you know uh day care wise or babysittingwise and stuff
uh because you know my sister was keeping them uh uh we just lucked out and she uh met a military man who lived down here and we came down here for TI
uh-huh
and uh so i had her baby sitting but she was six months pregnant and it was getting too much for her so i just quit i'd rather quit and take care of my own kids than let somebody else raise them
oh yeah
yeah that seems probably the best way to do it
well you know they're getting raised right
yeah yeah um
i haven't really the only day cares that i have been familiar with are the ones that are local here with the churches and they seem to
from my experience be the best at what they're doing just because of what they're based on
yeah
yeah if um
i i know one church that uh there was some problems with but that was just uh basically a personal problem between the mother and the uh person that was taking in charge
oh
but uh
the church uh day care that my kids uh they don't go to a day care you know it's uh during Sunday School and stuff uh the people there are really nice
uh-huh
yeah
yeah i think i think that's that's important
yeah well they
i think it's one of the important things
um-hum
if uh because if they don't like it uh you can't get them that separation thing and i need that my kids i need to cut the strings on them they're not very old but
yeah
how old are they
three and uh four and two
oh
so you know they're they're good kids you know they do bad things but they're good kids
um-hum
but you know kids kids do those
yeah uh but
i don't like the punishment the day care does you know i don't know exactly what they do but i don't want no one punishing my kids but myself
uh-huh
right
and that's another problem with day care because you're not there so you don't what they're doing
right right
and if
yeah they're probably i would think needs to be i don't know if they have any type of uh formal or informal spontaneous or routine drop ins of agencies
you know people checking up on like they do nursing homes you know they drop in to see if you're meeting all of the requirements by law and
and i think they need to do that with day cares and just see what's going on
yeah that's that's that's something that should be brought up with these people
so but i'm not really sure
i don't know if they do it either to be truthful
yeah i don't either it's not until you have kids i guess you worry about those things
well uh
with me i just decided not to face it and you know in most in in so many words you know in one way or the other i just decided not to face that issue and i just keep them with me
yeah
uh-huh
well
i don't know what we've done to solve any of this but i've enjoyed talking with you
yeah so have i oh
and welcome to Texas
oh well thanks and i guess i we've we've been on long enough so you have a good day all right bye-bye
thank you bye-bye
