Reply to In-home day care vs. child care centers

Forum Index » Preschool and Daycare Discussion

Reply to "In-home day care vs. child care centers"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went with a home day care from the time my child was 3 months until she turned 2. When she turned 2 I enrolled her in a center because I felt that it was more structured and had a "school curriculum" which will prepare her for when she does enter public school. I felt that the in-home is more warming and loving and personal unlike a center when they are that young. The price was a big difference going from one to the other and I fell like a child really doesn't need center base care until it's time for them to start learning. They should learn from day 1, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. One more point is that they also need to be around others in their age group and home daycare don't seem to offer that as much.  [/quote]

This is us exactly.[/quote]

Us as well. We ended up in an in-home because we didn't get into a center in time, but were really happy we did. A GOOD in-home has the benefits of a nanny and daycare in one. Close, loving relationships with a primary caregiver, but reliability of a daycare. Our in-home provider loves babies, and loved "her" babies like they were her own. She was truly the sweetest and I don't know how she had the heart to keep doing it with how upset she'd get every time a kid left her care. And she had a good network of family and friends working for her that they never had unexpected closures or extended closures around vacations and holidays. Then around age 2, we got off a waitlist at a high demand preschool, and it was the right time to move into more of a structured setting with a school prep curriculum. Really best of both worlds.

Friends kept their kids in our in-home until DC pre-K3, did say their 3 year olds were ready for more at the end. The in-home provider did do letters and numbers with them, but it still got very small feeling and they just couldn't offer the music and yoga type extras that centers can. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics