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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know that kids are better off or happier not having to go to aftercare or staying until closing. Avoiding that never entered my decision making, which,’along with sharing the drop off and pick up load, led to both of us being able to have the careers we wanted. [/quote]

???

Shouldn’t you know if your OWN kids are better off or happier avoiding aftercare?  I won’t speak for everyone’s children, but mine absolutely HATED aftercare and it stressed them out horribly.[/quote]

PP to whom You are responding. My kids loved aftercare and camp. Their aftercare took care of all homework so when they got home our evenings weren’t filled with a to do list. They taught my kids to sew and all kinds of other things. Plus my kids got to play with their friends. They had plenty of time to play with each other outside of those hours. They fed my kids a ln early dinner though they’d eat again at home. They also did camp on school days off so I never scrambled for care on teacher work days. And they did a summer camp so when they were little and didn’t like a lot of change, they could just stay in their regular childcare. It was a good gig. Went from age 3 to 13. [/quote]

Taught to sew and fed dinner?  Where is this mythical place? [/quote]

+1 where was this?? [/quote]

Silver Spring. [/quote]

So a private company?[/quote]

Isn't most aftercare private? [/quote]

NP no. Most aftercare is ran through the county out of the public schools. It's very similar to lord of the flies. About 100 K-5 mixed together with only 2 teachers. Kids running everywhere, bullying, the 5th graders were teaching the K about sexual things. It was awful and I got my kids out as soon as I realized. Ours is free for low income kids, so it's heavily used, overcrowded and the county doesn't fund it enough. My kids went to daycare and it was nothing like this at all. Complete chaos.[/quote]

It is RUN through the county. 
You can’t expect everyone to run their lives based on your poor daycare experience. Most people can have the expectation that they will have access through searching to some good options [/quote]
NP. Most people can't uproot their lives for aftercare. We live in a "good" neighborhood with a "good" school but my kids also hate aftercare with a passion. It was causing my 2nd grader complete meltdowns. I can't move and pull my kids out of the school they love because aftercare sucks. There are no other options that wouldn't require me to pick my kids up and deliver them to aftercare somewhere else which I could not do with my job. This is one of many reason I am still working part-time only.[/quote]

ok but that's a very specific issue that you have. It's not a universal truth. [/quote]

NP.  Of course it’s not a universal truth.  Just like it’s not a universal truth that aftercare is fun and enriching.  It’s dependent upon 1) the program, 2) the teachers/caregivers, 3) the other kids in the program, 4) your own child, and 5) how your child interacts with and responds to the first three.

My kids did NOT have friends in aftercare.  Aftercare was mainly filled with older, wild kids with potty mouths and checked-out, lazy adults.  So like PP, I went part-time so my kids didn’t have to deal with that stress at the end of a long day.  It was a struggle to get my employer on board and it was a struggle financially, but my kids were so much happier it was well worth it.

If your kids love aftercare, great!  If they hate it, really consider what, if anything, you can change.[/quote]

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