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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Having backup and contingency plans is part of parenting.”

This is a very privileged or uninformed statement.

Can you describe to me a backup plan that doesn’t involve having family nearby or spending very large sums of money?

My partner and I are privileged and when our center shutdown last summer unexpectedly due to staffing issues, we tried to utilize the backup care my work offers as a benefit. Guess what?  The first day, they didn’t have someone available. The second day, they sent someone who had never cared for infants. And so on. So, I missed 2.5 days of work that week and my partner missed 2.5 days of work. We were lucky that the only consequences if that was less vacation time for other times and working at night when we should have been sleeping. What about for people who don’t have such flexible jobs? [/quote]

100%. Everyone I know who says stuff about backup plans has at the very least-one set of parents local and sometimes more than that. They simply don’t get that “having a backup plan” is not a typical thing people can just have without family nearby. My husband’s job also offers backup care and there was one center close to us that we could use. I was so uncomfortable just dropping off my young kids at a daycare they have never been to-but it didn’t matter anyway because when we inquired they had no room anyway. [/quote]

I don't love how people have referenced "having a backup plan" when talking about COVID closures because those were long term, unprecedented and also made a lot of people's "back up plans" impossible.

But a couple weeks? That is just part of being a parent. Especially if the reason is your child care provider lost a child.[/quote]

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