I can’t make peace with any daycare!

[Anonymous]

In home daycares are the best of both worlds.

[Anonymous]

You must be exhausted having visited ALL DAYCARES but thanks for reporting back your findings.

[Anonymous]

Too many exclamation points.

I swear this is another troll. This sounds like every other complaining post lately.

[Anonymous]

19 infants?!?!

I will say that my preK at daycare has 20 in one room. I was hesitant but it’s been so great. I love how there’s always small groups and there are 3-4 teachers. Ds was more likely to find friends that he meshes with too.

[Anonymous]

daycare centers experiencing past-covid decline all over the country, due to stuff shortages and quality of new hires. So many jobs became available that pay more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need a nanny. I also couldn't get my head around daycare and then realized that once you have more than one kid, factor in sick days when you'd have to take off work (vs leaving the baby w/ the nanny at home), etc, that a nanny just made a lot more sense. My kids were never sick vs my friends who had their kids in daycare and they constantly had runny noses, coughs, etc.

What happens when the nanny is sick, lol

“Lol?” Do you not understand the difference between when a nanny is too sick to come to work and the amount of time kids have to spend out of daycare because they’re excluded due to mild symptoms or the end of a lingering cold that is no longer contagious, but doesn’t meet the daycare’s health attendance policies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need a nanny. I also couldn't get my head around daycare and then realized that once you have more than one kid, factor in sick days when you'd have to take off work (vs leaving the baby w/ the nanny at home), etc, that a nanny just made a lot more sense. My kids were never sick vs my friends who had their kids in daycare and they constantly had runny noses, coughs, etc.

What happens when the nanny is sick, lol

“Lol?” Do you not understand the difference between when a nanny is too sick to come to work and the amount of time kids have to spend out of daycare because they’re excluded due to mild symptoms or the end of a lingering cold that is no longer contagious, but doesn’t meet the daycare’s health attendance policies?

Most daycares are no longer excluding kids for mild symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need a nanny. I also couldn't get my head around daycare and then realized that once you have more than one kid, factor in sick days when you'd have to take off work (vs leaving the baby w/ the nanny at home), etc, that a nanny just made a lot more sense. My kids were never sick vs my friends who had their kids in daycare and they constantly had runny noses, coughs, etc.

What happens when the nanny is sick, lol

“Lol?” Do you not understand the difference between when a nanny is too sick to come to work and the amount of time kids have to spend out of daycare because they’re excluded due to mild symptoms or the end of a lingering cold that is no longer contagious, but doesn’t meet the daycare’s health attendance policies?

Do you see how many posts there are every day in the local parenting groups with people scrambling for care because their nanny left, has to go out of state/county for a family emergency, will not work when the child is sick, has transportation problems etc…? If you need actual reliable care and don’t have a super flexible job I just don’t see any way around daycare. It’s by far the most reliable kind of care. Home daycares have their own set of problems (ac breaks, provider sick, provider vacations etc…). Honestly I don’t even know how working parents deal with anything other than center daycare.

And OP-I have never in my life seen or heard of a daycare with 19 infants in one room. I’m calling bs on that. We get it-you think your little snowflake is too precious for daycare. But don’t blame it on lies.

[Anonymous]

OP where in VA are you? I absolutely love my daycare in Alexandria. They provide diapers/wipes but you do have the option to bring your own. Now, kid is a bit older but started with 8 infants in the infant room (and 8-12 was more the norm for the many daycares we toured although I did see some with a lot more so believe the 19 number).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a troll? I have never heard of anything like this. I have had two kids in daycare for 5+ years

MD ratio is 1:3. Our daycare had 6 infants and 2-3 teachers in the room. We had to supply our own diapers and lotion.

Yeah, the famous trolling about daycare ratios poster 🙄

[Anonymous]

I used to lotion my baby after a bath. Never sent lotion to daycare, this is just odd. We did send our own diapers too. My daughters class never had more than 8 infants. Around 13-15 mos they move to a toddler class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We chose a home daycare after starting in a center that had many infants in one room. Even though there was a good ratio of caregivers there were so many diapers to change bottles to feed etc it felt like just basic needs getting met. Definitely better ones out there that are centers, but a very small home daycare was affordable while having consistent caregivers and not so many infants at one time. The mixed age felt very helpful.

We started in a home daycare and loved it. Then when our child got a little older and we needed to switch due to a move across country, we ended up at a small daycare center. It was affiliated with a synagogue and although we are not Jewish, we liked the overall size and child to caregiver ratio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need a nanny. I also couldn't get my head around daycare and then realized that once you have more than one kid, factor in sick days when you'd have to take off work (vs leaving the baby w/ the nanny at home), etc, that a nanny just made a lot more sense. My kids were never sick vs my friends who had their kids in daycare and they constantly had runny noses, coughs, etc.

What happens when the nanny is sick, lol

“Lol?” Do you not understand the difference between when a nanny is too sick to come to work and the amount of time kids have to spend out of daycare because they’re excluded due to mild symptoms or the end of a lingering cold that is no longer contagious, but doesn’t meet the daycare’s health attendance policies?

Do you see how many posts there are every day in the local parenting groups with people scrambling for care because their nanny left, has to go out of state/county for a family emergency, will not work when the child is sick, has transportation problems etc…? If you need actual reliable care and don’t have a super flexible job I just don’t see any way around daycare. It’s by far the most reliable kind of care. Home daycares have their own set of problems (ac breaks, provider sick, provider vacations etc…). Honestly I don’t even know how working parents deal with anything other than center daycare.

And OP-I have never in my life seen or heard of a daycare with 19 infants in one room. I’m calling bs on that. We get it-you think your little snowflake is too precious for daycare. But don’t blame it on lies.

Right? The idea that you would go with a nanny for it being “less disruptive” is laughable. Plenty of valid reasons to prefer it (like having one caregiver who can focus on the kid) but needing to take off work the few times the kid is too sick to go to daycare is not one of them. Nanny’s are way less reliable, even good ones, because it’s just one person.

[Anonymous]

Our nanny gets all federal holidays plus she takes off two weeks in summer, two weeks around holidays and a few other days as needed for family/illness/etc. So that’s definitely something to keep in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need a nanny. I also couldn't get my head around daycare and then realized that once you have more than one kid, factor in sick days when you'd have to take off work (vs leaving the baby w/ the nanny at home), etc, that a nanny just made a lot more sense. My kids were never sick vs my friends who had their kids in daycare and they constantly had runny noses, coughs, etc.

What happens when the nanny is sick, lol

“Lol?” Do you not understand the difference between when a nanny is too sick to come to work and the amount of time kids have to spend out of daycare because they’re excluded due to mild symptoms or the end of a lingering cold that is no longer contagious, but doesn’t meet the daycare’s health attendance policies?

Do you see how many posts there are every day in the local parenting groups with people scrambling for care because their nanny left, has to go out of state/county for a family emergency, will not work when the child is sick, has transportation problems etc…? If you need actual reliable care and don’t have a super flexible job I just don’t see any way around daycare. It’s by far the most reliable kind of care. Home daycares have their own set of problems (ac breaks, provider sick, provider vacations etc…). Honestly I don’t even know how working parents deal with anything other than center daycare.

And OP-I have never in my life seen or heard of a daycare with 19 infants in one room. I’m calling bs on that. We get it-you think your little snowflake is too precious for daycare. But don’t blame it on lies.

Right? The idea that you would go with a nanny for it being “less disruptive” is laughable. Plenty of valid reasons to prefer it (like having one caregiver who can focus on the kid) but needing to take off work the few times the kid is too sick to go to daycare is not one of them. Nanny’s are way less reliable, even good ones, because it’s just one person.

100%. Not saying a nanny doesn’t have its benefits-definitely does. But reliability is not one of them.