For entrepreneurial moms, finding just the right childcare arrangement, one that provides enough care to enable one to focus sufficiently on business while also providing moms a flexible schedule with time for family, can be one of our greatest challenges. This is can be especially difficult when one is first starting out. Does one commit to childcare to create the time to build and maintain the business? Does one work in the off hours until the money starts coming in and then invest in childcare? Or, does one use some creative combination while getting things rolling.
Last week on The Enterprising Moms web site, we featured a poll that asked ‘What type of childcare arrangement do you have?’ to get a sense of how moms are managing.
According to our unscientific poll based on the responses of visitors to our site, here is what we learned:
More than 60% of respondents use either part-time or full-time care. More than 12% have school-aged children and presumably work during school hours. And more than 27% of moms use an occasional babysitter or handle all of the child care on their own.
Of course there are lots of variables that the poll doesn’t address (number of children, type of business, etc.) because of the inherent limitations of the polling tool, but we still get a glimpse into how others are making it work:
- Part-Time Care: 37.5%
- Full-Time Care: 22.9%
- Kids in School (K-12): 12.5%
- No Child Care – All Me: 12.5%
- Occasional Babysitter – Paid: 10.4%
- Occasional Babysitter – Co-op: 4.2%
- Kids Beyond Childcare Age: 0%
What’s your story? How do you make it work?
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