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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have young kids and I agree OP. My kids are in full day camps, extended care after school. I have babysitters, use camps, or use PTO on snow days and planned school closure days. I’m still saving money WFH because we don’t need before school care to have time to commute. Both of my kids were born prior to the pandemic, but not school age during the pandemic. We lived through daycare closures,
preschools only open until 3:30pm, and Covid exposure quarantines - but those days are largely over.

I understood kids being home in 2020-2021, but now there is no reason to have a child home during working hours unless it’s an occasional sick day or another caregiver is supervising them. [/quote]

There is a micro generation of parents whose kids are currently three and under, and who never had to find daycare. While you and I understand that working with kids at home was unusual, for those parents, sending their children to daycare would be unusual.

This isn’t a defense of the failure to attend to child care, just an explanation. I can understand why parents of very young kids would think what they did up to now will work forever.

I also suspect that some employers don’t appreciate that they can only afford their current workforce if that workforce does not have to pay for childcare. Obviously inflation and childcare costs have outpaced salary increases. That’s fine as long as employers don’t require workers to get full-time childcare. But if they plan to require that, their cost of labor is going to go up.[/quote]

I have a preschooler (and therefore only experienced childcare post-pandemic) and this is just not accurate. All the working moms of my kid's age have had to find childcare. We have had more hardship with childcare being *closed* or quarantines being enforced, but we have always had to have daycare or a nanny.[/quote]

If you can afford a nanny (clearly that’s what you mean since as you point out you’re talking about a period of time when daycares were closed) you are in a rarified sphere. The rich exception, not the rule. [/quote]

I took some time off as a SAHM in the worst of the pandemic and then did daycare. I meant "we" referring to moms in my cohort with kids born around COVID. I am thoroughly middle-class by DCUM standards. Not rich. [/quote]

I hardly doubt you are middle class.[/quote]

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