I notice there are a lot of home daycares open to essential workers. Which is best for infants? Never used a home daycare. |
Home daycares are not good for infants period |
Nonsense. |
Home daycare can be a great choice for an infant. |
I disagree. My youngest has thrived at an in-home daycare environment compared to my oldest who was cared for at a center. If your child is at a good in-home daycare, then there's so much you don't have to deal with compared to centers. The centers my oldest attended always had teacher turnovers, and I really hated when they kept merging classes at the end of the day to limit teacher hours/cut their pay. If I'm paying for a certain ratio, I expect that ratio to be maintained all day within their classroom. |
I have no idea which ones are good, I have no experience with any of them. But a good family childcare provider is WONDERFUL for infants! |
Spoken as a home daycare provider. Lol |
It depends where you live OP. There is no point someone recommending one in Gaithersburg if you live and work in Silver Spring. |
This is such a dumb statement. Many of us send our infants to excellent in-homes. Why are you so insecure? |
I'm assuming you are an essential worker in which case the safest and best bet is to ask your fellow essential workers and colleagues for a recommendation. Most emergency workers, military, etc. often have really good networks and can tell you where their kids went even if they are older, whose wife runs a home daycare, etc. |
This. Ask around. |