Taking care of kids is hard and should be paid accordingly.

Child care workers like teachers are not paid nearly enough add that to the fact that parents aren’t teaching their kids how to be responsible and respectful and have no discipline. It’s not all parents but enough that it’s made an impact. I personally know someone who quit daycare because a 7 year punched her in the face and cussed at her but she was told to figure out what she could have done differently and the child had no consequences for their actions.

Minimum wage needs to be 20/hr with this crazy inflation

Doesn't help that they pay absolute crap

It's the pay ! Taking care of the most precious thing but it's the lowest paid .

Pay is bad after 3 years of college not worth it

Lmao I know teens who charge $15/hr to “babysit” your kids. So yeah $13 an hour? What a joke! 😂

the lowest pay job is struggling with a labour shortage. that previous sentence obviously shows how to fix this problem.

13$ per hour when you get at Publix 18$

I left my daycare job yesterday. Teachers like myself aren’t paid enough for all the amount of work I had to do, and also dealing with the staffs catty drama

When I was a child, almost the entire childcare industry was teenage girls.

The entire childcare sector needs to go on strike just like the nurses. The government will do something then. I guarantee it. Ik easier said than done, but that’s the only option. Republican lawmakers don’t want to help. No other choice.

were I live you have to be 19 years or older to work at a child care. I quit because after 9 years of hearing "it must be nice to play with kids all day... what an easy job" people can only take so much. I had 3 jobs, and still couldn't afford my bills. I kept accumulating debt. My job was costing me money in a way that it was affecting my health so i had to work to pay health insurance, appointments, and medications. I was always exhausted and could never spend time with my own family,, because I was always working. I quit, and most of my expenses are now gone after about 3 months. It was a case of "I can't afford to work here any more" Pay is low, its stressful, and extremely under appreciated.

The pay they get is not enough for all the do! And the safety in our schools and daycares are horrible! From staff and children getting shot, to Caring Hands Daycare, in LaSalle, Illinois, hiring felons! Someone should look into this place too. JS 🤷💯

2 reasons and 2 reasons only. They tried to force employees to get the covid vaccine and immediately workers started quitting. Happened at my old child care and then they definitely don't pay enough for us to handle the situations we handle not to mention extremely strict rules because other bad employees mess it up for everyone else. It's just not something people want to do long term anymore.

Government should do something about this since they got so much tax from people. Stop spending tax money on stuff that are not important

This will be my last childcare center. The one I’m working in now ive been working in childcare off and on now, apparently we are getting another hero pay this time 3,000 dollars we will see

Low pay, high expectations, unreasonable parents and guardians. I was a Childcare Provider since 06. Never will I return.

The pay sucks point blank.

Because no one wants to deal with tantrums, biting, whining, crying for no reason, and constant screaming for 10 to 18 bucks an hour anymore.

One thing that would help; Drop the unnecessary bureaucratic 💩; we can keep our children safe without requiring the daycares hiring only college graduates with... Years of experience and . ... If children ages around 14 once baby sat for kids for like 75 cents an hour once worked, an adult surely could watch over a few kids for the day at an an otherwise unemployed adult could do this for a more adult pay!

I’m a preschool teacher, got COVID two years ago, and have been dealing with a toll on my physical and mental health. I’ll go until I drop.

1:50 yes welcome to America where no one "job" will ever be possible to raise a family on lol

Don't have children if you can't afford to stay home and take care of them. One parent must fill the role of homemaker.

Shoot I pay 260$ a week south florida for daycare

People how no idea how difficult it is to work with several kids. One kid is hard enough sometimes.

Because it makes no subsequent the way it ecusts. So creepy and needless... modern media.

how can we get a wage increase in CA. People at restaurants make more than us 😔

i still work at a daycare i get paid $15.50 i'm only there cause of my daughter i get to see her all day. i love working with kids it get stressful when your understaff imagine working by yourself with 30 children who are 3 and 4 because we was understaff and the company can't send someone else because they are understaff too yes we need to get paid more with all the training we do.

I get that the child care teachers needs to be paid more. Parents shouldn’t be expected to pay those teachers like we have to pay our doctors. If they want that kind of oh, the government needs to step in

The daycare centers in Massachusetts charge an outrageous amount for tuition. Starting at 4-6 weeks old. So my question is, where does all that money go? I would love it if someone could answer me on this one. Is it the owner who is making the big bucks? I will assume these men, and yes is mostly men, would not bother getting into the business if they weren't making good money, obviously.

Start requiring degrees for child care workers and then pay them better.

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