Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Apart from the fact that, for example, the friend from Stuttgart in my example earns significantly more than I do, there is actually a single "income rule" in our community. Want to chuckle? Gladly: for a household income (!) of under 27,500,- / year there is a 10% discount........... ;)

That has a pattern. Obviously, local politics wants to promote a traditional family image. Price for childcare high = one parent stays at home (guess which one).
If that doesn’t fit, vote differently. If no one includes this in their election program, you live in a society there that possibly does not match your values. Then leave.

Easier said than done, I know, but we are so lacking in consequences here ...

P.S.: Both children each spent one year in kindergarten, very quickly full-time as well. Mom finally doesn’t just want to be a mom, money helps the whole family, and the kids simply love being together with their friends. I can see no disadvantage in that.

that is complete nonsense! it is solely up to the federal states whether and how much daycare fees they want to charge. It is also a question of mentality whether and when I put a child in daycare / nursery. In Bavaria, we have already had to listen to quite a bit about how one can even put children in daycare. :)

stop bashing the federal states. Put your federal state government properly under pressure to make it free of charge.

Why do you have to listen to that :-D
I think it is important for children to have contact with others as early as possible. We have not regretted that our boy went to kindergarten just over 1 year old, and he hasn’t either.

Why do you have to listen to that :-D I think it is important for children to have contact with others as early as possible. We have not regretted that our boy went to kindergarten at a little over 1 year old, and neither has he.

:D ... there are plenty of "old" people who defend their "old" values. "A child must grow up at home with mom." As much as I like the BL, in some places they are old-fashioned.

I think it is hard to deny that you have less money when you have to give money away. And less money means you can spend less. Whether the state government then uses more money to make daycare places cheaper is another question. Personally, by the way, I do not consider free of charge to be good, whether it is local transport, daycare places, or anything else. Services have to cost something. But the crucial thing is that the prices are fair, and at 600€ for a daycare place, this is certainly no longer the case.

omg, my ex-wife also wanted to participate in social life at work again, which I also found absolutely understandable. We didn't let ourselves be made to feel guilty by helicopter parents, although here in Thuringia this is considered quite normal and there is no difference between flu/kindergarten. But well, everyone sees it differently. At some point you reach the point where you realize that you are not doing justice to the child's play. You just have to look at how children interact and play with each other.

I personally do not consider free of charge to be good, whether it is local public transport, daycare places, or anything else. Services must cost something. However, the decisive factor is that the prices are fair, and at 600€ for a daycare place, this is certainly no longer the case.

That is such nonsense and outdated. Have you perhaps still received some construction subsidies? Why? If you are not in favor of it. Education must not and should not cost anything. DAYCARE / nursery is just as much a part of education for me. It is not only part of education for the children but also professional education and freedom for the parents. Freedom for both to go to work, to be financially independent, and also to provide for their own pension without being dependent on the other. Freedom to dispel the prejudice that women of childbearing age might perhaps be better not employed because they could potentially be absent. Get rid of that prejudice. How many have received parental allowance? Should that also be abolished? What kind of rubbish is that. Education must cost nothing, and both parents should have the freedom to work.