![]() It is important for the school's faculty and parents to work together to guide the children's educational, emotional, and spiritual growth and to create a close knit HACD family that includes a variety of opinions, practices, and traditions. We strive to include and involve people with diverse viewpoints on our Board of Trustees and committees. To include and involve diverse viewpoints. We foster Jewish knowledge, Jewish values, and a lifetime connection to the Jewish people. We foster an environment where faculty, parents, and students respect and value the varied makeup of Jewish families and their religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity. Furthermore, in order to ensure that these diverse traditions and backgrounds are recognized and respected, the school is committed to the following goals: To value the diversity of our Jewish community. The school recognizes and respects these diverse religious beliefs, philosophies, attitudes and observances. ![]() Faculty, parents, and students come to HACD with varying traditions and backgrounds. Knowing all this, Parmerter designed a drop-in program that she could have used.Bet Shraga Hebrew Academy of the Capital District (HACD) is an inclusive community school. Often the parent must buy a membership, which can make infrequent use inaffordable. The most common: The parent can’t leave the premises and must be on call to handle any problems. Parents often say they just need a reliable babysitter for an hour or two while they get a haircut or shop for presents, but it’s not easy to find someone you only need infrequently.ĭrop-in sites could be the answer, but they usually have restrictions. It’s a maddening schedule, especially with young children, who need constant supervision. Her co-owner has a full-time job, which means she too had to do all the household errands with her children, after work. Parmerter is a stay-at-home mom, a role otherwise known as the parent who never gets a break. “That’s the kind of stuff we always wanted and never had.” “Bring their pajamas, we’ll change them into their pajamas, change their diapers, so if they fall asleep on the way home you can put them right to bed,” she said. They also run a “date night” one to two Fridays a month where they feed children pizza while parents go out. They take reservations online through a link on their Facebook/Instagram pages, MeTimeYouTimeLLC. Monday through Thursday Saturday mornings from 9-11a.m., and at other times by appointment. The new business offers a discount to Vent Fitness members, but only if they do not leave the gym while their children are in their care. The room used to be the gym’s childcare room, but Vent Fitness closed that service during COVID-19 and the manager decided not to reopen it. The business rents a room inside the Vent Fitness building at 1220 Route 146. ![]() “If you want to go home and take a shower and actually shave your whole leg, that’s what you need to do. “So you can enjoy Christmas Eve,” she said. Now parents can drop off their children at a reasonable hour and get their wrapping done. ![]() “It made me so frustrated to wrap the presents at midnight because you know, Santa Claus,” she said. It’s what she and her co-owner wanted when they had young children. “If you want to go for a coffee with your friends, go out to dinner, go get a haircut, go grocery shopping by yourself so you can have time to think. “We just thought it was so important for parents to be able to drop their kids off and go,” said Lindsay Parmerter, co-owner of Me Time. ![]()
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