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[quote=Anonymous]PP, exactly right!  Look, there are a few different kinds of childcare out there and different people want different things.  Let's not start a war of which kind is better.  I directed an infant/toddler room with 3 teachers, 8 babies (in DC) and yes, sometimes there are a few crying. But if you stay and observe for 5 or so minutes, you'll hear a teacher saying to one "John, I hear you.  You're done with that, aren't you? I'll be right there, I'm changing Larla."  Or watch one teacher holding a baby for a bottle with a 9 month old right next to her, talking to both.  If the babies aren't all the same age it's much better, because 9 month olds take 2 longer naps, 3 month olds take lots of shorter naps, the 12 or 15 month olds are taking 1 nap. The 3 month olds are sleeping while the olders are being fed table foods, or are painting, or using the water table.... while the olders take their 1 long nap the newborns are having tummy time..... it all works, often there aren't all 8 awake.  Not going to lie, being an infant teacher is lots of work, but so is being a preschool teacher, just in very different ways!

Honestly, while parents thing that having a "non-mobile" infant room and then a "mobile infant room" is better, what that does is make all the babies the exact same age in each room, which means they are all on more similar schedules, and need the same thing at the same time....  and that's harder. I'd rather have some youngs,  middles and older infants (a few 3-5 months, a few 6-10 months, a few 10-16 months) so that what they need is better balanced out.  [/quote]

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