What annoys you?

There’s gotta be a way to rort in your favour though.

get a bunch of parents, a childcare worker and your halfway there!. Pay the worker more than the scummy wage they get at daycare, renovate your house and negatively gear it, set it up as a business so you can have a trust fund.
Profit.

Licenses, standards, qualifications, child:carer ratios, real estate suitability, insurance, zoning.
These are just a few things that go against your cunning plan.

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The rich just get slaves, cough I mean au pairs.

Yep. Luckily my we can live off my wage (barely) but it ■■■■■■ me off when work colleagues give me and my wife crap about her being a stay at home mum. It’s not easy and even then most of her wage will go on childcare fees.

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There are courses run at my work that help people set up these kind of arrangements. I’m not sure how it works but I think the various participants get accredited to take turns at sharing the care of each others kids and they get tax benefits from it.

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That’s what I said to a single mother who thought about getting her Cert III and setting up a business. I also said that, with a bit of luck she might get a chance to have a conversation with other adults when she goes shopping at the weekends.

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Couldn’t you just do it informally? Without cash changing hands, if each parent does an equal part it would be fair.

It’s tricky because the little one transitioned to preschool this year and that reduced his hours.

I’d average it as 3 full days of childcare and 3 days of before and afterschool care.

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It ■■■■■ me when people complain about “middle class welfare” in regards to the childcare rebate. When I’m working I pay more in tax than we receive in rebate. Without the rebate we would seriously have to consider whether or not it’s worth it to work. It’s a net benefit to the economy.

Plus all the economic benefits of increased female participation in the workforce (that it’s largely women who stay home is an entirely different conversation about something else that shits me). We also keep costs down by Bugman5 working from home one day a week so we have less childcare to pay for.

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At my last job I interviewed a woman who was returning to the workforce after 7-8 years. We didn’t go into the details but she was doing something like this. It started as a few families just rotating one day a week of looking after the kids, and then moved just a couple of them doing it cash in hand, and then the full gamut of tax benefits or whatever it was. Real “village raising the child” kind of stuff. There’s probably hundreds of examples all over the place.

Yep. 1 child, 3 days a week, $25.5K. >$5K in rebates.

Cheaper to leave in the car at the Casino.

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Google Maps.

Take a 6km detour and pay $5 in tolls to save 3min on a 25min trip? Cracking idea, Google.

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Some idiot parents who decided to bring their kids to a party knowing that one of their 3 had gastro.

Well, the other 2 started puking at the party, all over other kids and on one of the parents as well.

So now theres another 8 kids that were at the party that have gastro.

Would love to be a fly om the wall on the local Mums WhatsApp feed.

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Waze

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Provided you’re OK with the Israelis tracking your every movement.

…and word.

because they are kind-less.

Well megz, I will be completely honest and tell you that I do not like my taxes going to a number of things, like private schools, child-care and other “welfare” for those who have more than a quid or six.

However, I do accept your contribution to the economy and the fact that your taxes go towards my private health insurance rebate, and soon may contribute to my old age pension (that is, if I can hide all my assets and Mrs Foxes income somehow).

Of course the solution is that Government should provide free child-care for everyone, free universal health cover for everyone, free education from pre-school to university for everyone, free public transport and pay for it with all the taxes they do not collect from the scumbags like Banks, Miners etc etc.

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Already tracked by Google.

Tracked by everyone ever.

I’ve given up trying to maintain privacy.

Wearing pants is a good start, and keeping your blinds down.

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