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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do which ever you think best.  Different people have different preferences, and that is fine,  We live in a different metro, so this post makes only general comments.

We quite deliberately avoided in-home daycares and nannys and nanny-shares because it is nearly impossible to really understand what the environment is like when no parent is around.

We have heard both happy and unhappy anecdotes around safety at nannys/in-home daycares.  These are not subject to local government inspection.  So we could not find a way to verify how safe a place might be.  No doubt, some were great, but we could not find a dependable way to sort the great from the others.

We have not heard any *safety* complaints about daycare centers subject to local government inspection.  We ended up at a smaller daycare/ preschool (in its own building, not someone’s home) in part because the local government makes both scheduled inspections and unannounced inspections.  Those inspection records are generally available online.  We avoided using the one place with an actual safety violation in their recent (last 3 years) records, but we were not bothered by minor paperwork issues.

Again, do whichever you think makes sense for your situation.  Maybe you have a way to confidently know that a particular nanny or nanny share or in-home daycares is safe,..[/quote]

In-home daycares in DC proper are licensed and subject to inspection. Not sure about MD or VA. [/quote]

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