Or will each individual Web consumer have to reinvent the value (of) online privacy for themselves — tantamount to child
care for working parents?
Or will each individual Web consumer have to reinvent the value online privacy for themselves — tantamount to child
care for working parents?
«We can not have real economic development unless we support quality, accessible child
care for working parents.
Not exact matches
Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) sponsors a
Parents Day
for summer analysts, so Mom and Dad can ensure their offspring are well
cared for by their new
work families.
There is also job sharing (where two employees might co-ordinate to fill one full - time position), temporary leaves and time off (including leaves to
care for ailing spouses or
parents), and being allowed to
work from remote locations.
«It's so important
for families to know that they will not be thrown off the program if they have a change in their
work hours or have to change jobs,» she says, «and it's important
for the child to be in a stable child
care setting even if their
parent's
work situation changes.»
I choose a flexible
work schedule to help take
care for my elderly
parents and spend time with them when they need me.
For some employees, a gradual return to work may ease the transition because it allows parents to «find other care arrangements for their children.&raq
For some employees, a gradual return to
work may ease the transition because it allows
parents to «find other
care arrangements
for their children.&raq
for their children.»
The budget document floats the idea that the new funding «could» provide up to 40,000 new subsidized child
care spaces
for families with limited income, or «make it more affordable
for parents to return to
work,» but offers no specifics.
In the legislature, MLA Laurie Throness spoke against the universal child
care plan, saying, «I find it strange that the government... ignores the cries of an infant leaving its
parent, who has to go to
work, and the sadness of a
parent who would rather stay home with their new baby
for a while.»
A few of the many things that jump off of the pages
for me are that it doesn't seem to support
working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income
for dependent
care assistance that many
working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child
care while they
work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying
for higher education.
What life insurance can do
for you: Life insurance can pay
for child
care and other daily necessities that you as a stay - at - home or
working parent do or pay
for.
Accordingly, a
parent may take an absence from
work in order to
care for a child
for certain period of time, during which they will receive monthly payments from the federal government.
There a great deal exponentially increasing headwinds as you push to higher incomes (much higher taxes, required child
care for two
working parents, professional school student loans).
Income supplements
for things like child
care, which stretch an earned dollar, also need to remain
for low - income
working parents.
So here we are in 2006, with
parents piecing together a patchwork of arrangements to
care for the kids while they're at
work, and with only the richest having access to high - quality child
care.
They tell us that during World War II, when 6 million U.S. women entered the workforce, government - supported child -
care centers offered on - site immunizations,
care for kids whose
parents worked the late shift and even take - home dinners.
Much more promising is the appearance here and there of day -
care centers at the
parents» workplace, and day
care provided by parishes and temples where it serves the triple purpose of providing meaningful
work for members of the community (especially older people), meeting a pressing need of the community's young couples, and beginning the religious education of the community's children.
Too much day
care is being provided by persons
for whom it is at best just another minimum - wage job, and too many children are simply left alone while the
parent or
parents work.
Atheist live lives like the rest of believers — they go to
work, raise their children,
care for their
parents, fight
for a particular cause, etc..
As Nick Clegg denounces «Edwardian»
work attitudes, FI tells
parenting «experts» to move out of the 1950s The Fatherhood Institute is calling
for a major new resource
for new
parents to be redesigned to reflect the reality of modern families — and powerful evidence that children do best when they are securely attached to more than one
caring adult.
Child
care is a necessity
for working parents.
Parents and other adults who
work with or
care for youth should be familiar with the Guidelines in this article.
Children tend to enter some kind of day
care quite early (as early as 6 months) but this is more
for the socialization than
for the
parents ability to
work (most mothers don't
work outside of
parenting).
One
parent is off
working, while the other
cares for the children, then the one
parent comes home and the other goes off to film a movie.
Recommendations from the study included increasing the quality of child
care, especially
for infants and toddlers, but also, importantly, educing the amount of time that children need to spend in child
care through promoting paid parental leave and flexible
working hours, and funding programs that support sensitive and responsive
parenting.
A little bit of flexibility can help enormously in expanding the role of both
parents in the
care of the child —
work flexibility
for men is of primary interest to women, just as flexibility
for women is of primary interest to men.
Today's
parents were not raised with the experience of
caring for young children, Gopnik says, and so they come to parenthood after extensive education and
work, and approach
parenting like another subject to be mastered: «Get a book, take a course, and things will come out well.»
But a
parent's ability to pay
for child
care is only half the story; the quality of
care children receive while their
parents work has lasting implications.
Here we
work hard to gather and distribute support materials and gifts
for bereaved
parents, family & friends, professional
care givers, and others who wish to understand baby loss and who want to help.
If a NICU stay drags on, eventually
parents have to face practical matters like returning to
work,
caring for other children, and coordinating family visits.
A good enough
parent takes
care of their child, tries their best, and looks
for help when they need it.The good news is that by becoming a more effective
parent, you can
work on things to help improve your child's behavior.
Many kids simply take
care of themselves
for all or part of the time that a
parent is at
work.
Preemies also do better when
parents work together with their child's doctor and therapists to take
care of problems early and make home life smoother
for everyone.
Single
working parents or families in which both
parents work may be able to sign up
for flexible spending accounts through their employers to help pay
for next year's child
care expenses — including most summer day camps.
Working parents who may already budget
for after - school or other child
care during the school year may find it easier to cover the cost of summer camp.
They
work closely with
parents, neonatologists, and the rest of the NICU team to ensure the best treatment
for the babies under their
care.
After - school
care may be a good child
care choice
for a
work - at - home
parent's family, even if one of the reasons to
work at home is spending more time with family.
• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask
for flexible
working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at
caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good
for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their
parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.
Following the judgment of the Hockenjos v. Secretary of State
for Work & Pensions (21 December 2004), where the lack of financial support
for non-resident
parents who share
care for children was found to be sex discrimination, the Childcare Strategy must address the barriers to sharing
caring responsibilities in low - income families, where child poverty is a high risk.
Not only do we need a system that recognises the costs of
caring for children but we need acknowledgement that
work - family balance has been a gender issue and that many
parents (of both sexes) would prefer to combine jobs and childcare in a more flexible way.
So, while policy must recognise that new mothers still do most of the childcare and new fathers most of the earning, it must also acknowledge that both
parents are equally responsible
for both
caring and earning: neither can
work unless his or her children are looked after; neither can
care unless the other — or the State — is footing the bill.
The focus of the workshops is support
for «team
parenting» — mums» and dads» capacity to
work well together as
parents, rather than pulling in different directions or assuming one of them (usually the mother) needs to take responsibility
for doing and / or organising the
caring.
In the newest generation of
parents there are increasing numbers of higher earning mothers, and fathers willing to take on more of the
care of children; in many couples both partners
work full - time — but the childcare costs which hamper the poorest in entering the workforce also lead to difficulties
for parents sustaining employment over time.
Children of
working parents have the right to benefit from child -
care services and facilities
for which they are eligible.
It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies
for shifting from «doing to» to «
working with»
parenting — including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy,
caring, responsible people.
I
work closely with the
parents as we teach them how to
care for their baby and do my best to let them provide as much of the
care as possible.
Sometimes I'll suggest methods that may seem very logical to you, but sometimes they may also seem somewhat funny or unorthodox, but hey... as long as the
parenting advice
works, you feel it's right
for you, and your child is happy in the process... who
cares, right?
I'm wondering if any readers know of any books specifically about
caring for babies that take the same calm, matter - of - fact tones that Between
Parent and Child by Haim Ginott (and two excellent books based on Ginott's
work, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Faber and Mazlish and Playful
Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen) does.
This isn't to say I'd be thrilled to join other pumping moms in a communal Mothers» Room, but if
work culture continues to skimp on providing supportive environments
for raising a healthy family, including flex time, paid leave, subsidized quality
care and just the basic humanity that allows us to see each other as more than just workers boosting a bottom line, I'd take the company of other moms like me so I wouldn't feel so alone as a
working parent.