Google? More like Boogle. C'mon, it's not really hard to search for an answer regarding affordable day care for your employees. Or is it?

Since when did on-site childcare become an equivalent benefit to bottled water and M & M's? Why don't you ask Google that question. They just got put in the hot seat by my hometown paper: On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble.

Sadly we are all too familiar with supposedly "family friendly" companies getting revealed as neither. Here at Parentopia we are totally in agreement that carework-not just parents take care of others so let's be inclusive- must be safe, affordable, available and included for ALL employees.

If you really want to read in-depth and researched reveals on companies who claim to be all about carework benefits, go read our blogmiga Becky over at http://www.deepmuckbigrake.com/ . You may have to hunt around a bit, but most of them are under the tag "Working Mother". Becky is taking on Working Mother Magazine's Top 100 list, one company at a time to see if they really hold up to a magnifying glass or not regarding their offerings to employees. Oh maybe she will add The Working Mother Magazine 20 Best Companies for Multicultural Women (notice that it's not "mothers") to that list to see how those hold up too.

But for now we need to figure out how help Google, and other companies, search for better solutions than the ones they are coming up with on their own. The frustration is employees often come up with innovative ideas and then are told, "No, that won't work." Hardly a way to run a business. Yo.