okay um well why don't you go ahead and start because you have more experience it sounds like
well i've got two kids one of them 's a year old and one of them 's going on three
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and in California anyways where i'm located my husband's in the Navy it's really hard to find child care around here because most people that are around here
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they're either Mexican or Filipino and they don't speak English
so it's like my kids pick up really funny words
and they come home and say something to me and i don't understand what they're saying
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and it's like i mean day care is really expensive it costs like three hundred dollars
oh goodness
for day care for two kids for a month and when they come home i don't even understand half the stuff they're saying
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oh goodness
so do they know what they're saying though do they seem to know the words that they're saying
um
sometimes
because they're they're real young
yeah
yeah because that could be a blessing further down the road but it can also be a problem now
like one day he came home and said something and i asked him what he was saying i told him to point to it so i could understand what he was saying and he was talking about the cartoon you know Peter Pan
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oh
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but he said it you know in i i don't even remember i don't i don't even know which one it was it was either Spanish or Filipino i'm not even sure which language it was
oh goodness
but he knew it was Peter Pan it's just he didn't say Peter Pan
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and so it's kind of hard to understand what they're saying
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but i don't wanna tell him not to say it because there's nothing wrong with it
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it's just makes it hard to understand
yeah yeah they'll be because at this age they're real real young and they could pick up any kind of language it it's amazing how easy they can learn
yeah
well i've uh i got two children as well my oldest is eight and my youngest is four and i used to teach and when my first one was born i was lucky enough to be able to choose whether i wanted to work or not and
even though i had just gotten my Master's degree i chose to stay home just because i worried a lot about child care and really wanted to be able to be that person that raised my children and
yeah
i like you're feeling the frustration of what they're picking up on that's exactly the worries that i had is that i worried about what kind of things they might be exposed to or pick up on and i was just really
paranoid and i guess just decided to be my own child's caregiver and at times i've regretted it just because i miss working with adults and uh
you know speaking regular language more than the the children's you know kind of language
yeah and actually having conversations instead of one line sentences
right right and as a cartoon once said i would like to have dinner with someone who can cut their own meat and that kind of thing um
really
but now i'm getting up at the at the stage where i will need to go back to work and so i'm looking at this issue and my four year old is just at the point where she'll be starting kindergarten next year which is still only half day so we'll still have to look at that kind of
of set up for her so
yeah my husband and i made a deal when our second son was born because we had i had to work
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there was after our second son was born there wasn't any choice i had to work
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so we made a deal he's in the Navy and six months out of the year he's gone on a ship
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so for those six months i don't work i stay home with the kids
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but while he's in dock and he's you know on shore duty for six months then i work in the daytime
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and we have child care for them it's only six months out of the year but still it
it's just it's kind of weird because the quality of day care is different than what i'm used to because i'm i'm originally from Arizona yeah really
oh are you so am i yeah what part oh okay i was in the Phoenix uh Mesa area
Mayer
yeah a little tiny dinky town up by Prescott
oh okay
but um it's really strange because
i'm used to just going to my next door neighbor and she babysat me and you know when i first had when we first had our first son she babysat him until we moved and
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it's really different here
oh yeah because now you're depending on other people that you don't know
yeah moneywise and you don't know them and you're worried you know
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i mean i know a lot of people say well it never happens to you it just happens to other people when children disappear but it's still scary when you have to look for day care
yeah yeah
you know you always have that fear
yeah
i got to find somebody really you know really that i can depend on
that's right yeah
and even if you have someone there right at your own house doing that kind of day care you still always have that little worry i'm sure
yeah
so
that's that is a problem what kind of criteria do you look for when you are shopping around
well i have a notebook and in it i have the top thirty questions and that may sound kind of strange but
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it's i'm just kind of paranoid as a mother it's like i want my child safe
