Is Childcare A Piece Of Cake?

I was never told that childcare was easy, In fact, I was told the opposite, I guess it is because I was discouraged from getting married and having children. So when we adopted our boys, it was so easy. Even with the hard work, and waking up at night to see if my younger one who had breathing problems was still alive, and having to watch Flintstones when I wanted to watch Soap Operas, diapers, keeping them from jumping off the top of the basement stairs, etc. taking care of them was easy. I guess it depends on your perspective and what people tell you.

Anyone that thinks taking care of children is a piece of cake has Never spent the whole day in a daycare center.I use to work in one and it is no picnic.It is very hard work,you have to constantly keep your eyes,and ears and attention always alert..Those children have to be dressed,diapered and read too and intertained all day long.Its really a hard job.I personally would not ever want to work that hard ever again.The children are cute, and they are sweet but a lot of hard work goes into caring for them..I can assure you the working mothers that leave their children at a day care does not work as hard as the one keeping their child...

Child care can be a pain. Taking care of children at all can sometimes be a pain. Children are never easy to take care of.

Besides working in the nursery at church, and things like that, I've never taken care of more than three kids at once. But even just one child, takes a lot of work.

I'm a work at home mom, and I am busy all day long. I don't think a lot of working moms realize just how much there is to do when you are home with your kids all day. When my sister and I were talking about it, after I first stopping working outside my home, she said that she would like it at first, but she would get bored after the first week or two, because she wouldn't have anything to do. I don't know what she thinks her kids would be doing, though! At the time, one of her daughters was being potty trained, and the other one was finishing up kindergarten. She would be plenty busy picking up after them and working with them on various things! She even went so far as to say that all she would do for those two weeks (before she got SOOO bored) was clean her house. I was pretty mad. I laughed, and told her that if she had her kids all day, she would be doing a whole lot more cleaning, and she just looked at me like I was crazy. She says the kids wear her out on weekends sometimes. I wonder what she thinks they do when she is at work??

childcare is a difficult task. But, when you come to enjoy it . It will be a lot of fun. I love taking care of my only nephew and he loves me too. I always help him with his assignments and so many other school work. There is a reward after the care you gave to a child and it is love in return.

I used to run a day-care when i lived in Singapore. The number of kids was 16 in total but not all of them always turned up...and that's counting my little one and maybe one or two other babies who just came for the heck of it. It was only for 3 hours a day Monday to Friday and it was pretty straight forward but certainly no piece of cake. You had to be so alert and so aware of EVERY child, what they were doing and where they were and if there was anything they needed. It was great.

People who think childcare is a piece of cake have never cared for children. Even the most well behaved, even tempered children can be a challenge. It is a lot of work and exhausting, though rewarding. I was a preschool teacher for several years before I had my own child, and I loved it, but I would never call it easy.

Now that I am a sahm, people think I have all the time in the world to do things for them, with them. Curiously, even people who have kids think this- how quickly they forget! It bothers me when people ask me for favors starting with, "Since you don't work..." Excuse Me- I don't work? Yes, I do. I work very hard. What you must have meant is I don't get paid. It irritates me when people don't take my job seriously.

Caring for a child or children is in no way a piece of cake! I only have one child and she is a handful to say the least. She made up for her not having siblings lol in her younger year. She had me fit to be tied when she took a red permanent marker and drew all over her bedroom walls, her book shelf which of course was white, and so on. I had to deal with paying bills, deal with getting the room cleaned up, get dinner started before I picked up my husband at the time from work in the next town which was over 12 miles away, making sure she was cleaned up before we got in the car for the trip and so on. I was a mess that day! But I got it all taken care of. My duaghter cleaned up most of that mess on her own, her step-dad ended up helping her and scolding her at the same time lol. he worked at a trailer plant on a hot tarmac for 10 to 12 hours a day so the last thing he wanted to do was come home and help clean up red marker off the walls hahahah! But we all had a good laugh over it.

Not at all
This is the worst job from ma point of view

Handles about 6 mine and my sister in laws as we stqayed with them from time to time between jobs . I did all the correcting she just let them go. Very hard I dont know where people come off thinking it isnt work!