Quotes About Childcare

A trained assassin who babysits.

There's no such thing as a single parent. They've become dependent on other people in commercial transactions, such as their employers and child-care providers. A single mother may look like she's doing so much 'on her own,' but she has merely commercialized the things the father would (and should) have done.

Whether you're wearing your baby or not, whether you're using cloth diapers or teaching your four-week-old to use the toilet: it's still women who are doing the bulk of child care, no matter what the parenting philosophy

In my experience, not all women want to run the world. Not all women want to run a big banking conglomerate. Not all women want to be prime minister. What a lot of women want is a good career that respects them... and high-quality, affordable childcare.

The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.

I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I've had to scale back!

Funders, financiers why don't you support childcare? Make it a budget line in your productions and please please let's not be ageist.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her husband generally does more child care and has higher parental knowledge about his childrens' friends, routines, and needs, cutting across the tendency for fathers to be second-string parents at home.

About $300 or $400 a month per child, depending on a couple of factors, like they get more if the child has special needs." Abby shrugged. "But the way I look at it, even if their motive is money, that doesn't mean they won't do a good job.

Alys told her that it was the way of women, to tote a newborn and then adjust as it grew until by the time the child was plump and heavy, the weight seemed naught.

But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps.

the trouble of overseeing a fidgety child when she wanted

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

If we want to grow our economy and help families return to work, we need to support child care providers.

There are mums in the kitchen at amazing pubs and that can work - it's just as tough but the pressure is different, the hours are different. Anais was nine months old when she started in nursery so I could go back to the kitchen full-time.

I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.

Access to quality child care is critical for working families, and attending college is often a full-time job.

I've got a lot of military kids who are not in on-base child care, and they should be. So it's things like that I'm going to change, either from a funding perspective or a policy perspective.

In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes.