...and I haven't blogged. I guess that could be that nothing really noteworthy has happened in the past 7 days.
Let's see...last Thursday I had to watch my baby niece, Eva because she was sick and and wasn't allowed to go to daycare. Now, I think this is a crappy policy. While I understand that a daycare doesn't want kids to come in and infect other kids, they need to understand that they are in business because parents have no other place to take their children while they are at work. Parents sure as hell wouldn't pay up to $2000 a month if they did! I think they need to set up a special room and caretaker for the sick kids. (Why anyone would want to be that caretaker I have no idea!) I especially think they need to set something up because more often than not, kids get sick AT daycare. When half the kids in the place are ill, you can pretty much guess where they contracted the illness. It's not fair to the parents if their kid gets sick at daycare and then can't go back because they are sick.
Also, it's not like parents get a discount if their kid isn't there a day. Most day cares charge by the week or month, and missing a day here and there doesn't save you any money - only if you miss an entire week. So, in order to care for Eva - my mom, Eva's dad and myself had to take off work to watch her over 2 days (time was split between me and my mom the first day and dad took off the next). That's vacation hours that we won't get back or didn't have in the first place and therefore money lost, projects at work that had to wait until the next day, deadlines that were missed and then possibly jeopardizing future time off due to the sudden nature of taking time off for this situation. All the while the folks at the daycare center had 1 less kid to watch and got paid the same amount of money. Grr!
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