Euzelle Smith - On putting her children in daycare and cooking (clip)
Interviewed by Alexander Stephens and Alex Biggers on January 20, 2011
Euzelle Smith (ES): My mother-in-law didn't particularly want to put them in daycare. She said she would rather keep them. But I wanted them to start getting used to being with other children. And learning how to mingle and associate. And when the twins went to nursery… to daycare at two, the first year they didn’t talk to anybody but each other. The second year, they would mingle with the children. It wasn’t until the third year that they were comfortable to be with teachers and all of that. And I said, ‘Now what if I had waited? Until they got six to go to school, they would have been so far behind.’ And then Reggie, we started, Reggie was in daycare when he was two, but then we put him in a daycare center. So that they could start getting used to other children. And they did very well.
Interviewer: Seems like it. You said your favorite part of the house is this room?
ES: Yeah, I don’t like the kitchen because I don’t like to cook.
Interviewer: Have you ever? Have you ever liked to cook?
ES: When I got married, I had never cooked a whole meal. For family.
