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...option--and full-time baby-sitters were too expensive. Instead, she turned to a team of child-care providers she knew could do the job: her mother and two aunts. The three older women look after Matthew when Banzer and her husband are at work, returning the toddler well cared for at the end of the day. "These are the women who raised me," Banzer says. "He is in very loving hands...
Once I got over the initial shock of living with a toddler tough, I realized that she was probably too young even to know what she was saying. So I decided to call an expert for advice. "How old did you say this baby is?" asked James O'Connor, author of a new book called Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing (Three Rivers; $12.95), which went on sale last week. Parents who came of age in the '60s and '70s, he said, "decided to do what we wanted and say what we wanted. So today...
...strep, an AWOL baby sitter or a school vacation. For most parents, child care presents a series of worst-case scenarios punctuated by periods of fitful sleep when we are worried about future worst-case scenarios, like the day when, out of desperation, we might have to take our toddler to work...
...slot for your child, it's a good way to expand your options. Large companies are starting to meet the need to keep workers satisfied (and at their jobs), providing child-care referral services and even assisting with emergency and back-up care--anything to keep your toddler away from the Xerox machine...
...accepting the very scary proposition that you or I may be parents in a few years, maybe we need this. I'll definitely need a long time facing life's unbuffered calamities before I can convince a toddler that I'm an Omnipotent Provider...