[speaker001:] Okay. So,
[speaker002:] I guess,
[speaker001:] What kind of experience do you, do you have, then with child care?
[speaker002:] I think, uh, I wonder if that worked.
[speaker001:] Does it say something?
[speaker002:] I think it usually does. You might try, uh, I don't know, hold it down a little longer, and see if it, uh,
[speaker001:] Okay [beep]. [long pause] Well,
[speaker002:] Okay I,
[speaker001:] Does it usually make a recording or s-,
[speaker002:] Well, I don't remember. It seemed like it did, but [LAUGHTER] it might not. I guess
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] I guess we can start. Uh,
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] No, I don't, I don't have any kids. I, uh, my sister has a, she just had a baby, he's about five months old and she was worrying about going back to work and what she was going to do with him and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] the different, do you have kids?
[speaker001:] I have three.
[speaker002:] Oh, really?
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Yeah, I do [LAUGHTER]. Yes, uh, I don't work, though, but I used to work and, when I had two children.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I work off and on just temporarily and usually find friends to babysit, but I don't envy anybody who's in that [LAUGHTER] situation to find day care.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] But, does your sister live in a big community?
[speaker002:] Uh, yeah she lives, it's a, it's a fairly large community. She, uh, got real lucky, though. He had a boss who, uh, moved into a larger office
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and she's able to take her baby to work with her.
[speaker001:] Oh, really?
[speaker002:] And it's a small office that she works in
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and, uh, it's a, it's a legal firm, office, and it's just one lawyer
[speaker001:] Um.
[speaker002:] and so she's the only one really that takes care of the office. There's no one else that works there.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And so they have an extra room and everything for the baby, so it works out pretty good for her.
[speaker001:] Wow.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] How lucky [LAUGHTER]. I, I know a lot of people around here sometimes have, like, mothers or grandmothers
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] that take care of their kids and, but, the community I'm in is not a real large one, so there are a lot of people who babysit in their homes that, you know, you either know them or know somebody who knows them [LAUGHTER], to get to,
[speaker002:] Yeah, so it's fairly safe.
[speaker001:] Yeah, to get references and that, so, but, uh, I, I d-, don't feel comfortable about leaving my kids in a big day care center, but, simply because there's so many kids and so many [sniffing] [throat clearing],
[speaker002:] Worried that they're not going to get enough attention?
[speaker001:] Yeah, and, uh, you know, colds and things like that [LAUGHTER] get
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] spread real easy and things, but, and they're expensive and, [lipsmack] course, there's a lot of different types of day care available, too, you know, where they teach them academic things.
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] Or they just watch them and let them play and things like that, but, take a long time to find the right place [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, and you, and you don't always even know if it's, it's going to be the right place or not.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Anything, I guess, could happen.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Because after, I guess after he, you know, gets to a certain age she's going to have to take him to a day care.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, when he starts toddling around and stuff.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] When, when he's not, when she can't keep control of him and he starts crawling that's,
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. It would be hard, I think it would be kind of stressful. It would be nice to have him around
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] but, uh, seems like, you know, goll-, what if he cried at the wrong time [LAUGHTER] or the phone rang or,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] you know, at the wrong time [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] But,
[speaker002:] I think she has problems with that, too.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Well, when you have kids, will you work? Do you
[speaker002:] I don't know
[speaker001:] work now?
[speaker002:] that's something I've considered. Uh,
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I always kind of think it would be neat to be able to watch them and be there for them all the time.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Is that what you do?
[speaker001:] Uh, yeah. Actually, I teach my kids at home, so I'm here all the time.
[speaker002:] Oh, so they don't go to school. Is it like, uh, oh, what's that called, it's, uh, correspondence school, they do it
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] at home.
[speaker001:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker002:] That's interesting.
[speaker001:] So,
[speaker002:] Do you have to have any special training?
[speaker001:] Not, it depends on the state you live actually. Some laws absolutely prohibit it. Some states, uh, say that you have to be a certified teacher in order to do that. Our state doesn't yet, [LAUGHTER] say that and I'm not a certified teacher. I went to college, but I, you know, but my kids are only elementary grades, levels right now and so,
[speaker002:] So they haven't been to public schools at all.
[speaker001:] One of them was for a couple of years and so, you know, my oldest, he was, and then my youngest two have never been.
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] So anyway, but we don't,
[speaker002:] So, you've never had,