By: Rebecca Hudson
Murray County News Staffwriter
Motherhood is most certainly a full time job, but many mothers have a second job and in most cases, those jobs take the lion’s share of the hours in the waking day for them. Juggling parenthood and a career is not always the piece of cake that some would like to think, and inevitably there are sacrifices to be made all around.
The greatest sacrifice for many is leaving a child in the hands of a trusted caregiver every day, and it requires confidence and trust in the individual who is in essence a temporary mother to those youngsters in their care. These caregivers provide for the child’s needs, nurturing and cultivating their development while mom is at work, and act as a stand in for them as well.
Indeed, childcare providers should be heralded as special kinds of mothers during this month of May mother’s celebration.
Veteran daycare provider/preschool teacher at Slayton’s WonderWorld Day Care and Preschool, Diane Scarset, is one of those dedicated to caring for the area’s youngest citizens, and has been for the past 24 years. Admittedly she says that she never thought that the career track would head in this direction. “I wanted to be a nurse,” she says with her patented light-hearted giggle. She may not have realized that notion, but has since achieved success in an environment where she each day wears numerous hats.
The veteran has nurtured countless tots through the years, serving as teacher, companion and surrogate mother to them all. She cannot fathom an estimation of the number of children she has helped to raise in those years of partnering in the child development of the offspring of so many grateful parents.
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