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Two Quebec staples

September 26, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski 1 Comment

Steamés and $7 a day daycare.

I was sitting on a terrace yesterday enjoying lunch of hot-dogs and fries with my daughter (because, apparently, Listeria doesn’t scare me one bit). Along came a 50-something woman, asking if she could share our table. “But of course!”

The conversation quickly turned to childcare. (For some reason, she believed a woman having a weekday lunch with her 3-year-old could be some sort of a resource.) This woman’s daughter is looking for a daycare for six-month-old twins, but keeps encountering waiting lists up to 4 years long.

I suggest: “Why not enroll them in private daycare and pay $30 a day only to get it all back on her income tax?”

She comes back with: “Oh, well she and her spouse make too much annually to qualify to get any money back.”

Yes, of course. When it comes to daycare, it’s deplorable to think that a family making 6 figures should have to pay more than $1,820 a year per child. Thank goodness even those families receive $100 a month per child under 6 in childcare benefits. How ever would they make ends meet?

And there you have it. Another example of how enviable our childcare system is in Quebec.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: $7 a day, Daycare, Quebec

No decay of the human family here

April 24, 2008 by Tanya Zaleski Leave a Comment

Quebec is only meeting the increased demand for daycare by half. We have the coveted $7 a day daycare system in place here in this province, and, apparently, we can’t get enough of it. Essentially, we’ve created a monster that can never be quenched. Daycare here is the norm. It’s so normal, that everything else is abnormal. Attempting to illustrate:

Mary to Doris: I’m sending my son to the Big Daycare down the road. Where are you sending your daughter?

Doris to Mary: Oh, I’ll be staying home with her. (or My mother will be watching her 5 days a week.)

Mary to Doris (gasping for breath): What? Aren’t you terrified that she won’t be socialized?

Yes, that’s right. Many in Quebec believe that, if you don’t send your child to daycare, they will be that weird kid who sits in the corner and talks to himself. A fallacious stigma once reserved only for homeschooled children has now attached itself to those kids who spend their early formative years with (brace yourselves) family.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: $7 a day, Daycare, Quebec, stay-at-home mom

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