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The High Cost of Doing Daycare
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1103" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.topic.com/the-high-cost-of-doing-daycare" target="_blank"><strong>The High Cost of Doing Daycare - Topic</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Childcare fees are a major burden for new parents—but the situation isn’t much easier for the people taking care of their kids. </strong></p><p></p><p>Joan Hallett’s apartment is in a wide, six-story complex on a classic brownstone- and tree-lined street of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. When I enter, it’s full of children. Beyond a leather couch and green armchair, the darkened living room holds two infants in rockers, one of them fussing while being soothed by a staff member and an older one standing in a playpen. Through a narrow hallway is the back room, which used to be a bedroom and is now painted in blue and yellow, with signs displaying the letters of the alphabet and a daily schedule and shelves of cubbies and toys lining every wall. There, six toddlers eat supper under the watch of two young, tired-looking female providers. After eating, they switch to noisily solving big wooden puzzles and looking at picture books.</p><p></p><p>Hallett arrives a few moments behind me, fresh off her part-time job as a guidance counselor at a nearby middle school, which she's worked while running this daycare center out of her home for the past 12 years. Her curly gold-and-brown braids are piled on top of her head, and she sports red cat-eye glasses above a matching magenta blouse and sneakers. Her face looks much younger than what you’d expect from a grandmother.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1103, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.topic.com/the-high-cost-of-doing-daycare'][B]The High Cost of Doing Daycare - Topic[/B][/URL] [B] Childcare fees are a major burden for new parents—but the situation isn’t much easier for the people taking care of their kids. [/B] Joan Hallett’s apartment is in a wide, six-story complex on a classic brownstone- and tree-lined street of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. When I enter, it’s full of children. Beyond a leather couch and green armchair, the darkened living room holds two infants in rockers, one of them fussing while being soothed by a staff member and an older one standing in a playpen. Through a narrow hallway is the back room, which used to be a bedroom and is now painted in blue and yellow, with signs displaying the letters of the alphabet and a daily schedule and shelves of cubbies and toys lining every wall. There, six toddlers eat supper under the watch of two young, tired-looking female providers. After eating, they switch to noisily solving big wooden puzzles and looking at picture books. Hallett arrives a few moments behind me, fresh off her part-time job as a guidance counselor at a nearby middle school, which she's worked while running this daycare center out of her home for the past 12 years. Her curly gold-and-brown braids are piled on top of her head, and she sports red cat-eye glasses above a matching magenta blouse and sneakers. Her face looks much younger than what you’d expect from a grandmother. [/QUOTE]
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