 Real-Life Examples in Which Just in Time Care
Can Be Used
- You know of a provider willing to do backup care for your children, but you can’t afford to pay the full cost
of care.
- Your family child care provider’s own child is sick and
has to close for the day.
- The children have no school on Presidents Day, but you
still need to get to work.
- Your father generally can take care of himself but when he
is not well, someone needs to be with him. With no backup,
you need to stay home with him.
- With many camps closed during the last week of summer
vacation, you can’t find care for your eight-year-old
daughter.
- Your spouse normally cares for the baby but must go out of
town for a family emergency.
- Your family child care provider’s mother dies; the provider
has to close for a week to handle arrangements related to
the death.
- Emergency/bad weather closes school, but you still need to
get to work.
- Your mother has just had surgery and needs care for a few
days while she recuperates.
- Your in-home provider/nanny unexpectedly resigns. You need
to find intermittent care immediately while you search for
new care arrangement for baby.
- Your three-year-old daughter who was running a fever at
bedtime cannot yet return to the child care center. You have
a presentation at work that can’t be missed.
- Your family child care provider takes a vacation. You do
not want to use your own vacation days to cover that period.
- Your wife is the primary caregiver for your father-in-law,
but she is out of town and the caregiving responsibility
falls on you.
- You have to travel for business, and you’re using a
relative watch your kids.
- You prefer having your school-age children spend the full
day at their regular after-school program during Spring
Break, and would appreciate having your company help pay for
the cost.
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