A handful of childcare centres are keeping their doors open longer and close later to serve working parents who need that extra bit of help with child minding...The extra service is a lifesaver, say some harried parents, whose evenings used to be a mad dash from work...
In the ideal working environment, work starts at 8.30am and ends at 5.30pm which meets MOM's 8 hour a day guideline. This leaves 1.5 hours before and after work to send and pick the kids up from the child care centre which opens from 7am to 7pm.
However, most of the time in my work environment, overtime is unavoidable. So 1.5 hours to the childcare centre could end up with just 0.5 hours. So that is when the mad dash from work begins.
Lucky for Lancerlady and I, our employees have adopted flexi-hours, the kids' child care centre are near and we've got a car to ferry us around. Imagine those that had to take long journey and switching between the train and bus.
However on the other hand, pity the teachers and the care providers in those childcare centres that open late. It means they had to start work early and end work late.
So it is a difficult win-win situation for both parents and care providers.
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