Comments on: Creative Ways To Reduce Child Care Costs http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Sun, 19 May 2013 11:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rebecca Whitlock http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-1025726 Rebecca Whitlock Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:27:44 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/#comment-1025726 I think you should take telecommuting off the list. I telecommute with my job 100%, and my daughter is still in daycare for 8.5 hours, 5 days a week. If you seriously think that a person can be both a productive employee AND keep a dutiful eye on their child(ren) at the same time, you are seriously mistaken. When you choose to work at home, and raise your child at home, you end up not doing a very good job of either.

I know from personal experience as I tried to keep my daughter at home while I worked, and it took 16 hours to get 8 hours of work done, and when I was working, my daughter was stuck in front of the television. And this was all while she was 6 months old, so she wasn’t even able to get up and run around. I can’t even imagine trying to keep her home AND work at the same time with as active as she is now.

]]> By: Ben http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-379436 Ben Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:59:09 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/#comment-379436 Just thought I’d add another tip for UK readers. The Government childcare voucher scheme allows working parents to pay for childcare before tax is paid for. This means that parents reduce the cost of childcare by upto

]]> By: Jtfunk http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-266835 Jtfunk Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:37:03 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/#comment-266835 How about asking more companies to step up to plate and offer on site daycare? In this way if my work had on site care, I could go to work with my children, keep breastfeeding, and visit during lunch! I’d be saving time, gas, and separation anxiety. Why don’t more companies do this? Is it because they are run by men?

]]> By: Sheenu http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-219422 Sheenu Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:28:43 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/#comment-219422 Hi,

I went through the same thinking process. Only lately I realized that almost everyone with kids is in the same boat at some point! So I decided to log myself about it. For me, the decision to use daycare was pretty simple. If what I earn was 3x or more than the cost of daycare and if I could find a daycare where they didnt just do TLC, but also had lots of activities, then it would be well worth it.

Sheenu

]]> By: The Carnival of Family Life | MamaBlogga http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-57655 The Carnival of Family Life | MamaBlogga Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:07:54 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/#comment-57655 [...] & Tips Jeffrey Strain presents Creative Ways To Reduce Child Care Costs posted at Saving [...]

]]> By: BlogWriter http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/comment-page-1/#comment-53775 BlogWriter Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:19:45 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/2007/06/01/creative-ways-to-reduce-child-care-costs/#comment-53775 Childcare is expensive. My girlfriend and I both work part-time on different days so we share the child care in order to reduce the cost. One day she looks after my child and vice versa.

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