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[quote=Anonymous]It's always amazing to me how the anti-daycare folks know about one or two daycares and think they know everything about the thousands of daycares out there.

We are at a good daycare center.  Our twins were in the infant room for 14 months (4-18 months), a toddler room for 6 months and are now in the twos room.  There are many families that love this center and have brought their second child through the program because their first did so well.  Over half of the kids in the twos room our kids have known for 75% of the lives or so because they have all shifted from room to room together (they all transition within a few months of each other depending on their birthdays).

In this daycare, there are no swings.  There are one or two bouncers per room with six infants and two teachers.  My children had the same 2 teachers throughout their 14 months in the infant room, both excellent infant specialists.  I watched these two work with several very difficult babies and although the first couple of weeks were hard, after that, the babies adapted pretty well to the room.  And as they became older babies (6-12 months), the peer network helped a lot of them.  The younger ones struggled to do what the older ones were doing, so we had a lot of kids that learned to crawl, scoot or walk pretty early to keep up with the slighly older kids.  In the toddler and twos room, my kids adapt to a lot of things as fast as we teach them because they get such great reinforcement at school.

OP--although each daycare and each child react differently, expect that the first 2-3 weeks will be difficult, but that your child will adapt.  Children are amazingly resilient and they do adapt.  Do your due diligence in researching the daycare but the vast majority of difficult children do adapt.  There are the small minority who will not, but don't count on your child being one of them until it happens and then try an alternative.[/quote]

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