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En espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monique<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Felt very expendable<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have \u2026 very strong value[s] \u2026 around keeping my community safe \u2026 around rights, responsibilities and obligations to a community.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About My Picture<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re at the park \u2026 And this year it was a lot of negotiation because there’s another day care within walking distance \u2026 They don’t believe in Covid. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In years prior, we would have just played with the other daycare kids and anybody else who came to the park. We would bring toys \u2026 and art materials and we would just [share] with whoever in the community popped in. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re really working on how you negotiate the space with people \u2026 it was hard \u2026 because the kids in the other daycare would say stuff about our kids wearing masks.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s about negotiating everything with society as a whole and as a community \u2026 And it just it sums up the year as a whole. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Our Interview with Monique<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monique completed a four-year college degree almost a decade ago and opened her family home childcare soon after. \u201cI really view child development from a cross-cultural perspective,\u201d she said, referring to how she had translated her formal learning into developing a \u201cniche\u201d area of serving primarily racially diverse children along with others whose parents identified as LGBTQ. Nearly all her families, she said, had incomes just above the eligibility threshold for public childcare subsidies.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from occasional supply shortages and some non-Covid health scares, Monique described her childcare operations as relatively stable during the pandemic. Of greater concern, Monique has been having to keep up with increasingly strict licensing regulations, leading her to suspect that soon, \u201cIt will all be center-based care. And when we put children in centers where they have only their peers instead of mixed ages, they don\u2019t get the same\u201d kinds of language development and social skills benefits she observed when she had school age and younger children together all day, following the switch to remote schooling.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monique cited additional factors contributing to her belief that licensed family home childcare would soon become a relic of the past, including a weak professional union and a broader cultural lack of respect and advocacy for family home providers\u2019 knowledge and contributions. She summed up her general sentiments about this past year and beyond: \u201cI definitely felt very expendable.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From full interview transcript of 3,412 words<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monique<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Me sent\u00eda muy deshechable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Tengo \u2026 valor[es] muy fuertes \u2026 sobre mantener segura a mi comunidad \u2026 sobre derechos, responsabilidades y obligaciones a una comunidad.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sobre Mi Foto<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estamos en el parque \u2026 Y este a\u00f1o hubo mucha negociaci\u00f3n porque hay otra guarder\u00eda que est\u00e1 a unos cuantos pasos \u2026 Ellos no creen en el Covid. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

En a\u00f1os anteriores, simplemente nos habr\u00edamos puesto a jugar con los otros ni\u00f1os de guarder\u00eda y cualquier otra persona que llegara al parque. Llev\u00e1bamos juguetes \u2026 y materiales de arte y simplemente [compart\u00edamos] con cualquier persona de la comunidad que apareciera. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realmente estamos trabajando en c\u00f3mo se negocia el espacio con otras personas \u2026 fue dif\u00edcil \u2026 porque los ni\u00f1os de la otra guarder\u00eda dec\u00edan cosas, de que nuestros ni\u00f1os llevaban cubrebocas. Se trata de negociar todo, con la sociedad en general, y con la comunidad \u2026 y pues, as\u00ed se resume el a\u00f1o en conjunto. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nuestra Entrevista con <\/strong>Monique<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monique acab\u00f3 una licenciatura de cuatro a\u00f1os hace casi una d\u00e9cada, y abri\u00f3 su centro de cuidado infantil en casa pronto despu\u00e9s. \u201cDe verdad considero al desarrollo infantil desde una perspectiva multicultural,\u201d coment\u00f3, refiri\u00e9ndose a como ella hab\u00eda empleado su aprendizaje formal para desarrollar una \u00e1rea \u201cnicho\u201d para servir principalmente a ni\u00f1os de diversas razas, as\u00ed como a otros cuyos padres y madres se identificaban como LGBTQ. Casi todas sus familias, ella nos dijo, ten\u00edan niveles de ingreso justo por arriba del m\u00ednimo de elegibilidad para subsidios p\u00fablicos de cuidado infantil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aparte de ocasionales escaseces de suministros, y algunos sustos de salud – no relacionados con Covid – Monique caracteriz\u00f3 a las operaciones de su centro de cuidado como relativamente estables durante la pandemia.  Lo que m\u00e1s preocupa, es que Monique se ha tenido que mantener al tanto de las regulaciones de autorizaci\u00f3n, que se han vuelto cada vez m\u00e1s estrictas, d\u00e1ndole a pensar que pronto, \u201cTodo ser\u00e1 cuidado basado en centros. Y cuando ponemos a los ni\u00f1os en centros donde solamente tienen a sus pares en lugar de edades mixtas, no reciben los mismos\u201d tipos de beneficios para el desarrollo de idioma y habilidades sociales que ella observaba cuando ten\u00eda a ni\u00f1os escolares y ni\u00f1os m\u00e1s j\u00f3venes juntos todo el d\u00eda, despu\u00e9s del cambio a las clases remotas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monique cit\u00f3 otros factores que le han hecho creer que los centros de cuidado infantil, de casa y con licencia, pronto se volver\u00edan una reliqu\u00eda del pasado, entre ellos un sindicato profesional d\u00e9bil y, en la cultura en general, una falta de respeto y apoyo por los conocimientos y contribuciones de los proveedores de casa familiar. Ella resumi\u00f3 as\u00ed sus sentimientos con respeto a este a\u00f1o pasado y m\u00e1s all\u00e1, \u201cDecididamente, me sent\u00ed muy deshechable.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

De la transcripci\u00f3n de la entrevista completa, de 3,412 palabras<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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