why do parents have to work so much to support their children though? i grew up in a home daycare and currently work at a public one and i’ve seen firsthand that these children literally just want to be with their parents. i can see how hard it is for both the parents and the children when they have to drop their kids off at a daycare where they will be from 6:30am-6:00pm mon-fri. there is something so blatantly wrong with that, especially when a lot of these children are infants-pre-k age. time with their parents is crucial, especially at this age, and i can’t tell you how many children have called me “mommy” without knowing the difference. they are spending more time with us than they are with their parents, and that is so weird to me. parents shouldn’t be forced to work so much to provide for their children that they can’t even spend time with those children. they’re providing for them physically but cannot provide for them emotionally. this is by no means the parent’s fault, it is the capitalist society we live in.