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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

What happens when the nanny is sick, lol[/quote]

“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?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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