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‘Shared parenting

_ By MARILYN JOHNSON

In our society there
is almost a presumption
that anyone can look
after a child, but there
is a real difference
between babysitting
and daycare, accordin
to Sybil Foley,
placement worker for
Day: Care Information
Services on the North
Shore. i

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“We like to- think of
daycare as shared paren-
ting,” she says. “The daycare
mother and the natural
parent are sharing the
parenting of the child -
‘bringing the child up and
teaching the child life skills,
stimulation... how to live.”

When you hire a
babysitter you are basically

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looking for custodial care —
to keep the child’safe. But in.
a daycare situation, the
daycare mothers have the
children during their waking
hours, usually eight to ten
hours a day, five days a
week.

' There. are two kinds of
daycares, licensed daycares
and family daycare homes.
A daycare mother can look’
after up to two children in
her home without requiring
a licence.

Daycare Information
keeps a_ registry of all
daycare homes on the: North
Shore and refers parents to
these homes. For those
parents eligible for the
government daycare subsidy
(maintained by the
‘Guaranteed Annual Income
Act) the centre must ap-
prove the plans they have
made. a

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