Work At Home And Avoid Daycare

I don't know how many of you may listen to the Dr. Laura Radio Show. I'm an avid listener myself, I try to listen every day while I'm working unless it becomes too distracting. But even if you love her or hate her you have to agree she's right about one thing, it's better to raise your child yourself instead of leaving them in daycare.

However it's hard to manage kids while you're working at home. I have heard of some parents who put their kids in daycare even though they work at home. To me, that is defeating the point of having a work at home mother. Studies show that children are negatively impacted when they attend daycare as opposed to being cared for by a stay at home parent.

"...non-parental child care (day-care) will have a direct effect on increasing personal and behavioural problems, increased depression, increased crime, particularly youth crime, and more personal stress leaves from work, all of which will require more government spending and higher taxes in the years ahead." - Garry Breitkreuz, M.P.

So how on Earth can you possibly keep your children out of daycare yet focus your attention on your work at home business? Well, there are solutions to every problem. When my kids were small and needed constant attention, I hired a babysitter or a "pseudo-Mommy" to take care of my kids for 3 hours a day while I worked.

The pseudo-Mommy was only a 16 year old high school student who just needed to be there to make sure they weren't getting into things they shouldn't be. I could pay babysitter wages and not nanny or daycare wages and the student was very happy to have steady "work". Usually she came over after school and did her homework while she watched the kids for me and I would be in the other room working away - child free! Yet I was within reach of my children, my kids were in their own home, and they weren't lumped in with a bunch of other kids at an overcrowded daycare. So if they had those inevitable stratches on the knee that had to be kissed, Mommy was still there even though she was "at work".

So consider hiring a babysitter for those times when you need to get work done uninterrupted. Your child will thank you later for not shipping them off to daycare!

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