okay
so
i guess
what kind of experience do you do you have then with child care
i think um
i wonder if that worked
does it say something
i think it usually does you might try um
i don't know hold it down a little longer
okay
well
okay i
does it usually make a recording or something
well i don't remember it seemed like it did but it might not i guess i guess
okay
we can start um
okay
no i don't i don't have any kids i um my sister has a she just had a baby he's about five months old and she was
worrying about going back to work and what she was gonna do with him and
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the different do you have kids
i have three
oh really
uh-huh
yeah i do
yes um i don't work though but i used to work and when i had two children
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i work off and on just temporarily and usually find friends to babysit but
i don't envy anybody who's in that situation to find day care
yeah
but does your sister live in a big community
um yeah she lives it's a it's a fairly large community she um got real lucky though she had a boss who um moved into a larger office
um-hum
and she's able to take her baby to work with her
oh really
and it's a small office that she works in
um-hum
and um
it's a it's a legal firm office and it's just one lawyer and so she's the only one really that takes care of the office there's no one else that works there
um
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and so they have an extra room and everything for the baby so it works out pretty good for her
wow
how lucky
i i know a lot of people around here sometimes have like mothers or grandmothers that take care of their kids and but
yeah
the community i'm in is not a real large one so there are a lot of people who babysit in their home that you know you either know them or know somebody who knows them to get
yeah so it's fairly safe
to yeah to get references and that so
but um
i i don't
don't feel comfortable about leaving my kids in a big day care center but
simply because there's so many kids and so many
worried that they're not going to get enough attention
yeah and um you know colds and things like that get spread real easy and things but and they're expensive and
yeah
course there's a lot of different types of day care available too you know where they teach them academic things
yes
or they just watch them and let them play and things like that but
take a long time to find the right place
yeah and you and you don't always even know if it's it's
gonna be the right place or not
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anything i guess could happen
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because after
i guess after he you know gets to a certain age she's going to have to take him to a day care
um-hum when he starts toddling around and stuff yeah
yeah when when he's not when she can't
keep control of him and he starts crawling that's
um-hum it would be hard i think it would be kind of stressful it would be nice to have him around
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but um seems like you know golly what if he cried at the wrong time or the phone rang or
you know at the wrong time but
yeah
i think she has problems with that too
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well when you have kids will you work
do you work now
i don't know that's something i've considered um
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i always kind of think it would be neat to
be able to watch them and be there for them all the time
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is that what you do
um yeah uh actually i teach my kids at home
so i'm here all the time
oh so they don't go to school is it like um
oh what's that called it's a
correspondence school they do it at home
uh-huh
yeah
yeah
that's interesting do you have to have any special training
so
not it depends on the state you live actually some laws
absolutely prohibit it some states um say that you have to be a certified teacher in order to do that our state doesn't yet
say that and i'm not a certified teacher i went to college but i
um-hum
you know but my kids are only elementary grades levels right now
and so
so they haven't been to public schools at all
one of them was for a couple of years
and so you know my oldest
he was and then my youngest two have never been
hm
so
anyway but we don't
so you've never had
