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The Dutch childcare system in brief, along with five top tips for families new to the Netherlands.Top tips for families
When in doubt, get out with the kids. There are many playgrounds tucked between the houses, streets and shops but the Dutch transport system makes it easy to explore further afield. Good sites for finding more about children's activities include www.uitkrant.nl (look under jeugd) and the website ’out with the children (www.uitmetkinderen.nl). Dutch publisher Kidsgids (www.kidsgids.nl) publish a number of guides in Dutch (and one in English) that will give you lots of ideas.
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I am in Canada and part of a movement to have governments value care of children wherever it happens, without the conditions Holland is imposing. The assumption some governments sadly make is that family-based care is free and done solely out of love with no costs. To ignore the value of loving care and prefer care by strangers is problematic for children and parents who often would prefer to have someone tend the child who loves the child. A universal funding per child from birth is much more appropriate both for children's guaranteed escape from poverty and for human rights and women's recognition for the care role. The traditional male economy says only paid work is work but women know that the tasks are the same paid or not. To assume women or grandmas don't work when they tend their own family is an insult to women's rights. Fund all kids equally and let parents choose the child minder arrangement even if it is family -based.
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