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Child Care.
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The Nanny Boom--Motherhood by Proxy (limericks) (du20000711-01)
    Yesterday Fox News reported 
    to what proxy-moms have resorted
    It is uncanny 
    that now they hire nannies 
    for kids to have proper consorting.
    To teach their kids morals and charm 
    and still chase careers with aplomb,
    they will "invest" 
    30-grand for "the best" 
    not knowing such person is "Mom."   
© 2000
---Inspired by Fox News Channel story yesterday (07-10-00) about the exploding trend in Silicon Valley for mothers with careers to pay $30,000 to $70,000 per year to provide "the best" for their children by hiring "highly educated" nannies to raise their children, help the children feel they are important members of the family "team," and teach them "morals" and "family values."  Fortunately for my kids, the "highly educated" person who taught them "morals" and "family values" and made them feel they were the center of our family was their Mom.   Jim Wrenn, Editor.


New-Millennium Child Care:  
Yuppie Version of Pet Care (a limerick)(20000507-01)
(Can you say "taxpayer funded"? -- Can you say "Hillary Care"?) 
    I'm tired of the whining and frets 
    by couples who have kids as pets. 
    The proper child care 
    is Mom who is there-- 
    not someone who's paid to hear frets.
    Too many women fall prey 
    to outlandish notions that they 
    must have a career 
    to satisfy peers 
    and leave kids with strangers all day.
    Why do career gals suppose 
    that others should pay through the nose 
    so they can pay less 
    for care they think best 
    so they can keep up with the Jones? 
    My boys were quite lucky guys 
    as apples of their Mama's eyes.
    She had a career 
    but quit without fear 
    to be Mom for her special guys.
    She could have preferred a career 
    and sent them to child-care to rear,
    but she knew it best 
    that we all have less 
    for them to have more of her near. 
    Should one-income couples pay more 
    in taxes for child-care galore,
    so two-income fam'lies 
    can sample life's candies 
    and pay less for child-caring chores? 
    Of course the right answer is "No." 
    So who does that leave-- Do you know? 
    Those two-income fam'lies 
    and grandads and grannies-- 
    and college-kid's parents-- but whoa ! 
    All in those groups will say "No, 
    we just can't afford to pay mo' "
    Who, then, is left 
    to be made bereft 
    for yuppies to keep up their show? 
    Who should be brought to their knees 
    to pay for such big-spending sprees? 
    Please don't tax me, 
    and do not tax thee, 
    just tax that guy behind the big tree 
© 2000 (except last line) (Reprise from http://polisat.com/du2000/du000229.htm#20000206-03)
(Poetic License since New Millennium starts 01-01-2001 and did not start on 01-01-2000)