Another great alternative is to collaborate with your local in-home day car provider/ or network of providers. While on site is great (speaking as a parent) it is difficult to really focus at times when you have your mind on your kids... but the ability to drop in, get updates and such provides peace of mind; much needed for the freelancer parent that is on the go as it is. This way you reduce your liability as well with trained day care providers as well as stimulating your local neighborhood economy... try bartering too...host child care trainings at your coworking site.
Just some quick thoughts.. Danielle, WHERE www.wheremmm.com Los Angeles, CA On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Joseph Rooks <josephro...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I know some universities provide child care in their research > facilities, since one of my friends is doing that over the summer- > might want to hop into the Coworking at Universities discussion and > find out if anyone knows the specifics of that. If you're near a > university, perhaps it would be possible to set up some kind of > partnership in that area? I don't know any kind of specifics, but it's > a lead that might be worth following. > > - Joseph > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Chad Ballantyne<c...@rhubarbmedia.ca> > wrote: > > Childcare would be fab. We've made our place child friendly for 5 and up > > ages. The thing with co-work most freelancers are on a tight budget - to > ad > > childcare might put them over. At the same time if you could at least > > provide a room/area like doctors offices for a TV/toys/books a desk for > > older kids, etc. it might work out. We have space for kids to sit and > play > > and Monsters Inc toys every where! > > A full-out childcare facility would be great. > > Chad > > On 23-Jul-09, at 3:08 PM, Aaron Lozier wrote: > > > > I'm at about the same place as you and I also thought a childcare would > be a > > super great amenity. > > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, ForceDotMom <bcol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am not coworking yet. Actually - I just had the idea to open a > >> space the other day, and I didn't even know that 'coworking' was a > >> thing. But here you all are. > >> > >> My thought was that it would be nice to have a coworking space that > >> would incorporate childcare of some kind. I know that some > >> corporations have on site daycare for working parents. I think it > >> would be so great to have something like that for people (like me) who > >> work at a home office and have kids to care for. > >> > >> Would love to hear any thoughts or input from the group. > >> > >> I look forward to learning more here. > >> > >> -Brandy > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Chad Ballantyne > > 705.252.2423 > > c...@rhubarbmedia.ca > > www.rhubarbmedia.ca > > ΓΌ Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
