WE (MY CHILDREN AND I) NEED AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE WITH EVENING PICK-UP HOURS!
Sorry about the capitalization. (I know it's not all about me!)
I'm feeling I'll either have to give up my job or my home if I can't find childcare which offers a pick-up time of 6:30p!
I am open to a reasonably-priced (Other parent absent. Have no income assistance. My work income offers comfort but not extravagance.) business-type childcare, a christian childcare, or care in a loving private home.
I've researched Arizona Childcare Resource and Referral, and most p/u times are 5p or 5:30p!
I work until 5:30p and sometimes can't get but just a few miles in half an hour these days here in the valley! Isn't this 'just like 50yrs ago type stuff'? Do many people really walk into their homes at 5:15p every evening and say 'honey I'm home'?
Am I the only struggling mother w/o a fam' member or friend to p/u my children at 5:30?
I've worked a couple jobs in my current field and finally I've one I love. (I've known too many people who never loved their work. I know too many now!) I don't mean to sound selfish. It makes sense if we're happy with our lives, our children will feel it. I'm working hard at an honest job and trying so hard to do this motherhood that came to me three years ago, well.
As long as one of the parents are allowed to physically and financially abandon their child to the other parent ... well, maybe that's another show; maybe it's time it were even up for vote on the senate floor. (Pausing here to use some calming focuses skills.) Leaving these little human beings we adore is a little less difficult if we are comfortable with where they are and where we are, and how we come together at the end of a work day.
I've spoken with my employer; not an option.
I want to keep this job. I want to take my children to a good childcare who understands there is no fam/friend/father to p/u at 5p and there are moms like me who are unable to meet the p/u time of 5:30. (I think that's the time my mom picked me up twenty years ago!)
PLEASE HELP ... MOMS, DAD-MOMS, GRAND-MOMS, LIKE-A-MOMS; and if you know of any affordable and good childcare, please share a.s.a.p. My work route is Gilbert Road by Superstition Freeway to my employer in Tempe, so even mid to west Mesa area fine. Heck, no suggestion out of the question!
Tks. Good eve' to all.