Posted on 08/03/2019 10:45:15 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
Paid child care is expensive and eats up much of the income from lower-paid employment, which is all many mothers can get.
What I propose is a system where two mothers can join up and provide mutual child care. Mom2 would work the days Mom1 doesn't. They might live in the same dwelling or just be neighbors.
They would generally want to find a line of work that is seven days a week so they can each get close to 40 hours of work in each week.
Grocery store work, retail store shelving work and restaurant work are some suitable lines of work, since such work is generally spread over seven days a week.
To bring monthly income into roughly equal balance, Mom1 might work three days one week and four days the following week.
Alternate day scheduling is possible, such as Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday for one mom and Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the other mom.
Scheduling might also be back-to-back, such as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for one mom and Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the other mom. It could also be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for one mom and Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the other mom. Flipping back and forth between schedules for income balancing would be possible.
If they both have relatives that can watch over their children on weekends, regular retail work, which commonly expects workers to work both Saturday and Sunday, would be suitable too. Full weekend scheduling would commonly be back-to-back, such as Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday for one mom and Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday for the other mom, with Wednesday possibly going to one mom one week and the other mom the next week.
My scheduling suggestions are simply that. Employer need and employee desire would be the controlling factors.
There is no government involvement required with my proposal.
I hope to post a child care co-op proposal in the coming days.
stop bogarting and pass the J . Women can’t stand each other and they wouldn’t be able to shack up for the weekend should the opportunity arise..
My thoughts exactly.
You missed your calling...
I’ve seen a few of your posts/ideas....
Find a policy wonk job with six figures for a foundation that wants to control our lives...
May I suggest you read Adam Smith...
Easy now, brian has a good heart, his head is on straight his idea would work in a moral world. the jews have community daycare but they are all jews, no welfare queens driving escalades..A tight knit community with common goals, not every woman for herself and screw you guys..and if a kid gets disiplined in daycare mom doent come in beating a$$es. she beats the kid. unlike inner city widows here.. Now back to brian.. his issue? the happy pills.... he may be overdosing..
I have been working since I was 14 years old, and I have yet to find an employer that will dictate to my needs.
Additionally, a home budget is set by what it needs, not how much you can supply to it. And if you are in an overpriced situation and you have to rely on another person for income, you better get a degree in nuclear fusion as Murphy comes into effect. And then you’re downstream without the paddle when you couldn’t afford the canoe to start.
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This proposal assumes that we have a single mother situation. For every mother there’s a father. Even if they aren’t married and living together, shouldn’t dad be involved in child care when mom is at work?
This is already being done...
Moms in my department did this 20 years ago...
I suspect Elizabeth Warren has a child care plan, buried behind requests for wampum.
Democratic child care plans will cost you $$$/annually.
Democratic child care plans will cost Wal-Mart $$$,$$$,$$$/annually.
How about the mothers plan ahead and marry their chosen baby daddys before making a baby and then have the man work while she provides the daycare.
I know it’s a radical idea but it has worked a few times when it’s been tried.
I saw a bumper sticker several years ago. It said “Radical Mom. I raise my own kids.”
I’ve got a MUCH easier plan. Won’t cost a THING, completely legal & Constitutional. Will solve multiple ‘issues’ @ the same time
Ready? OK: Reduce the size/scope of govt to its Constitutionally authorized limits
TADA!! People have more time/$$ to do w/ as they wish, mom OR dad can stay home (even switch it up).
Follow it up w/ a return to user-pays service(s) and even MORE ‘issues’ get solved.
I think working more than 20 hours jeopardizes benefits. The primary way to make more money is to have more children, with no man in the home. That’s why “successful” welfare queens have more children by different fathers.
by job, i think you’ve got it! why jeopadise your benifits by working and taking the burden of child support away from the gov’t!
There is no way I’d spend all of my days off providing daycare, even if it’s just for one other family. Watching other people’s children is work-it’s not the same as taking care of your own kids.
You sure seem to be an attention hound - always posting vanities on how you would save the world...why don’t you consider throwing your hat in some political ring and see how your ideas really sell....this one is almost as good as Clinton’s Midnight Basketball as a way to stop crime (now that was racist but we never heard from the race mongers) - still see some of the rusted and unused hoops around.
Since most of your stuff has no links involved, I’ll supply one for further research into what makes things happen:
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