um what do you feel about child care
well fortunately my children are
pretty much beyond that
mine are too but i think it's a real real a real serious situation for a lot of people
it certainly is
and i don't you know a lot about it where where you're working for this school department
yes um our YMCA has after school child care um at several of the schools so that they don't even have to you know go anywhere yeah
leave the school uh-huh
um and then for other schools that they don't have it at the school they have it at the Y
and they pick them up in a a you know a van or whatever i think it kind of depends on how many
um-hum
well you're probably in a more uh oh what we we live in a rural rural area
students
oh okay
and so i think most of the people around here that have to leave their children leave them with uh neighbors or people you know in a home situation
um-hum
um-hum um-hum well that's always nice too i did that when mine were were littler
so
uh-huh
the uh first couple of years that i i worked only halftime when my first child was born and and he just stayed with a friend or somebody that maybe had one child you know his age
um-hum
um and that always seemed to work out real well and you know when somebody would decide to quit or something i always
felt real panicky
um-hum
but always seemed to manage to find somebody that i thought was just as wonderful as the other one you know so it seemed to work out
yeah did you
have you worked all the time your children were little
um uh when i had my second one i stayed home for three and a half years
oh uh-huh
and then and then went back
so but that's about the time then they could go into a preschool situation
right right unfortunately the preschool that i wanted the second one to go to because my first one had
oh
is a preschool that does not have any day care at all but it's such a wonderful preschool so i had to find somebody else to keep them and then and then somebody to take them there
uh-huh
oh
so that's always another problem
oh yes uh you know i don't know how people we it's pretty cold here in Utah in the winter and i think i just think it would be so hard to have to get a child up a baby
um um-hum
um-hum
and take it in the cold to someone early in the morning
right yep
i think that that i would let i think i would sooner have it in someone in the home taking care of it
um-hum but then that's awfully expensive too
in a home
yeah well i mean if so you have someone come into your home
oh yes uh-huh to come into your home but i
you know that
that would be real nice but just almost almost cost prohibitive prohibitive you know
um-hum
yes unless you can get could get a a nanny or something that i know a lot of the girls here go off as nannies
uh-huh
and stay in people's homes and take care of them after they've graduated from high school not a lot but some of them
oh uh-huh uh-huh
but uh i think that'd be an ideal situation i've never had to to uh work out of the home i've had we had uh six children and they just
uh-huh
i would just i was just here with them
well you just worked period huh if you had six children
right and right well there was seventeen years between them but that uh yeah well i just i just really that's what i wanted to do you know and but i know that my
uh-huh
yeah
children's spouses and i have five boys and a girl and uh
oh where did the girl come
in the middle uh-huh we kept trying but uh the our our daughter or none of them have worked very much while their children have been little
middle
oh that's good
um-hum
so but uh we have fourteen grandchildren so
this is i i feel lucky that they have not had to go out of the home
right right
because i i i don't know i just think that those first two or three years and then again in high school they they need their mother there
yeah that's true yeah that is true well how cold is it up there
so
uh it's in the how cold is it honey right now
about twenty eight
oh okay well it's about fifty here so uh no it's quit yeah it was bad there for a little bit but uh anyway
is it still raining
oh good are you
um-hum
what do you do in the school district do you
i'm a librarian
oh well that's be interesting i love books
um-hum yeah i liked that a lot and i kind of wanted to continue it even though my children were you know when they were born but like i said i was able to stay home for
so
uh-huh
those three years so it made a difference
well i think if you're trained and i think if you feel it within yourself that you want to be out you know and you you have uh
you have the ability and stuff that's great there were times when i would have loved to have got you know uh-huh to left to have left my kids and you know
um-hum
to get out yeah that's true i think
and everybody feels that way at times at least
i'm sure they do
and then also that you'd love to be home at
i'm sure that's so too
at other times but uh one thing i think it does do is it it it forces it forces you to make your children be organized and
and i think it makes them more independent um-hum
and independent that's right that
