Childcare

[James Deuce]

Can't get child care for the two that need it, and we've pumped thousands into the local Kindy, just in time to "enjoy" 12 months of "free" Kindy (It would be free if we had a corresponding tax cut) for number 2.

Nothing is free.

[BuFfY]

I think it is a great idea... makes my job a lot easier in the long run as the children would have come from some other form of education. We talk quite a bit about early childhood education, a lot of our papers are the same. I could never do it though!

[Hitcher]

I remember the days when kindy or any sort of pre-school education was the exception, rather than the norm. Mind you, them was the days when families could survive on the earnings of one parent. One wonders what sort of society we are creating for future generations.

[Dilligaf]

There is no such thing as "free". Somebody somewhere is paying. Hang on, I think it's me!

Meh! It's all of us who are paying.... as I wrote previously, for once this family actually gets something back - without paying again then.... not free




Pedant

[James Deuce]

Mind you, them was the days when families could survive on the earnings of one parent. One wonders what sort of society we are creating for future generations.

Living proof that it can be done.

But.

It requires debt management, not saving. You listening Dr Cullen?

[ManDownUnder]

Dear God - imagine policy actually encouraging kids to be with their parents during the first few years of their lives. The damage it'll do to their little brains.