{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiftk.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fformal-childcare-_gcGadSZ","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"When you don’t ‘need’ formal childcare","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5244e8dc-6968-4b85-8237-b52d9ddbebf9/460ce14e-d5a7-4841-a074-510b95dda8e0/diftk-podcast-artwork-gold.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/1e791810-bc9c-4a46-8004-296dafd30ff9\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"When you don’t ‘need’ formal childcare\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"“Hi Frankie and Steve!\n\nI have a childcare question for you…\n \nWith our first born, we never considered putting her in nursery. I reduced my hours at my (employed) job and my partner and I shared looking after her by working alternate days.\n\nThis time around I’m self-employed, and with my partner now working 5 days a week, I’m only able to work after 4pm which is really hard. I’m getting work done, but it’s incredibly difficult to get motivated to work at that time.\n\nOur youngest is now 2 and therefore qualifies for the 15 ‘free’ hours a week. But we both feel incredibly guilty about thinking of using a nursery, even for a couple of afternoons a week. \n\nI personally feel like I’m being selfish, because we are making it work at the moment without formal childcare, and the number 1 reason we’d put him in a nursery would be so I can work during the day a bit more.\n\nSooo, can I have your pros and cons for using paid-for childcare when you’re in a situation like mine? When you don’t NEED to.\n\nThank you\n\nPs. I’d like a detective name please”"}