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Payton Pelletier, a 20-year-old, discusses the influences on her childcare experiences in a podcast. She highlights her family as the biggest influence, emphasizing that her mom being a stay-at-home mom ensured she always had a caregiver after school. Payton also mentions her large family, with older siblings who could take care of her. Additionally, she mentions the influence of local institutions like her school and social interactions in a small town. Hi, my name is Payton Pelletier. I am 20 years old. This is my podcast for my generational interview. So I'm talking about my influences on childcare and how that was in my life. I'd say the biggest influence in my life was definitely my micro system. I'd say that my family and the fact that I grew up with such a large family was really easy for my mom and my dad to always have childcare available. My dad worked, like he travels, he's a pilot, so my dad wasn't home a lot but the fact that my mom was a stay-at-home mom made me always have like a caregiver with me after school hours. So pretty much from as far back as I can remember I was always having my mom with me. I remember her doing a lot of stuff and my mom very rarely wasn't able to take care of me. If it was, it was like for a doctor's appointment or she had to do something somewhere else and I had four other siblings and I'm the youngest of five. So my closest brother was seven years older, my closest sister 11, my next brother 15, and the brother after that 17. So I pretty much always had someone to take care of me as I got older. Yeah, so I feel like that was a really big influence. Also my, you know, some local institutions that I had influenced me, like my school, my social types of interactions. I went to a school in a very small town, Griswold, so doing that I feel like I just was able to