What do you pay for infant day care inside the Beltway?

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Anonymous wrote:I paid $350 a week for in-home on Capitol Hill.

How many hours a day?

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of care do you want?
Custodial care or real care?
Caregivers who hate their job, or
Caregivers who love their work?

What does this even mean?

If you take the time to observe, your see how most of those poor babies get treated. Even if it costs 2K a month. Your baby needs to be loved. Not just diaper-changed every two hours, and then left alone.

So let's recap. You have nothing to contribute to OP's question but you stand in judgement. Not okay.

Let's recap. When you ask for the price of a service, we need to know the level of service you want/can afford. Do you want to find your child at the end of the day happy, well-rested, and ready to go home for dinner and bed? Or passive/angry, over-stimulated, and disagreeable?

Quality of care is of vital importance, imo.

Worker turnover is an indication of poor quality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of care do you want?
Custodial care or real care?
Caregivers who hate their job, or
Caregivers who love their work?

What does this even mean?

If you take the time to observe, your see how most of those poor babies get treated. Even if it costs 2K a month. Your baby needs to be loved. Not just diaper-changed every two hours, and then left alone.

So let's recap. You have nothing to contribute to OP's question but you stand in judgement. Not okay.

Let's recap. When you ask for the price of a service, we need to know the level of service you want/can afford. Do you want to find your child at the end of the day happy, well-rested, and ready to go home for dinner and bed? Or passive/angry, over-stimulated, and disagreeable?

Quality of care is of vital importance, imo.

So you're saying no one should dare to even question what the range of rates are for day care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I paid $350 a week for in-home on Capitol Hill.

How many hours a day?

8-5:30. This was a couple years ago.

[Anonymous]

Op here. I am asking bc I honestly don't have any idea what this costs. We can afford $2k but I also don't think more expensive necessarily means better. But the question is really just to gauge the range and what is typical. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

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In Bethesda about 1/2 mile outside the beltway (does this count?) we pay $1,475.00 per month at a center.

Where is this?

Bright Eyes off of Tuckerman Lane in N. Bethesda. The care givers are very warm and caring. My baby really seems loves them.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of care do you want?
Custodial care or real care?
Caregivers who hate their job, or
Caregivers who love their work?

What does this even mean?

If you take the time to observe, your see how most of those poor babies get treated. Even if it costs 2K a month. Your baby needs to be loved. Not just diaper-changed every two hours, and then left alone.

So let's recap. You have nothing to contribute to OP's question but you stand in judgement. Not okay.

Let's recap. When you ask for the price of a service, we need to know the level of service you want/can afford. Do you want to find your child at the end of the day happy, well-rested, and ready to go home for dinner and bed? Or passive/angry, over-stimulated, and disagreeable?

Quality of care is of vital importance, imo.

So you're saying no one should dare to even question what the range of rates are for day care?

Of course you should ask about rates. Why not? But you should understand you may be comparing apples and oranges, so that might not be so helpful, unless you don't care about quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I am asking bc I honestly don't have any idea what this costs. We can afford $2k but I also don't think more expensive necessarily means better. But the question is really just to gauge the range and what is typical. Thanks!

You're right. You might get high quality for low price, but not likely, unless it's grandma. Due dilegence is always required.

[Anonymous]

In the District, I paid 1625 for an infant in 2011 at an NAEYC center (large center, but not a chain). I think parents in our infant room pay 1750 now.

Some of the price discrepancies are salaries, but some also stem from rent. Federal centers don't have to pay as much in rent, and centers in church buildings may not be paying market rate either. If your center is in an office space, however, it's competing against private sector tenants for the space.

[Anonymous]

I think it's important to ask about the caregivers' payrates. You want to know that they are paid fairly. Otherwise, they're resentful, especially when they know how much you're paying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

In Bethesda about 1/2 mile outside the beltway (does this count?) we pay $1,475.00 per month at a center.

Where is this?

Bright Eyes off of Tuckerman Lane in N. Bethesda. The care givers are very warm and caring. My baby really seems loves them.

I was the PP asking about this. Thanks! It's right around the corner from me, I will be looking this!

[Anonymous]

Falls church PP - would love to know if your place has any openings! Weve been looking for an inhome daycare nearby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the District, I paid 1625 for an infant in 2011 at an NAEYC center (large center, but not a chain). I think parents in our infant room pay 1750 now.

Some of the price discrepancies are salaries, but some also stem from rent. Federal centers don't have to pay as much in rent, and centers in church buildings may not be paying market rate either. If your center is in an office space, however, it's competing against private sector tenants for the space.

Same here: We paid $385/week for an NAEYC federal center that provided good staff benefits--not having to pay rent, or paying greatly reduced rent, and being able to piggyback on the building's janitorial and security services, does affect price.

[Anonymous]

we paid just shy of $1700 for our NAEYC center. the price has gone up and it's about $1840 now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Falls church PP - would love to know if your place has any openings! Weve been looking for an inhome daycare nearby.

Unfortunately they're full with a waiting list at the moment (not sure how long?) but we've been very pleased. She's licensed for 12 with 2 full-time helpers, a separate room for babies and a full pre-school curriculum for the older kids. Great home-cooked meals as well.

Eymy Telleria, [phone]