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[quote=Anonymous]Quality of daycare/nanny/SAHP is everything. I chose to send my kids to daycare at 4 months even though we easily could have afforded a nanny (gasp!) because my work had an on-site center that that allowed me to maximize my time with them, and it made me nervous to put all my trust into one person alone with my baby all day. I do know several people who had bad experiences with Nannies (including a family who switched to our center after their daughter was seriously injured while in the care of their nanny) so the idea that a nanny is always/usually preferable is absurd. I’m sure there are many low quality daycares where kids are ignored, overstimulated, or poorly supervised—also bad.

We’ve now done a variety of things (center based daycare, home daycare, full day preschool, brief stints with nanny, grandparents, and SAHM) and there are pluses and minuses to each. I did SAHM for a few months in between jobs and was surprised at how many Nannie’s at the park in the middle of the day seemed totally disengaged. Sure, I look at my phone when my kids are occupied, but I don’t leave them strapped in their strollers with zero interaction for 45 mins while doing so. So based on my experiences, the pro-nanny/anti-daycare view is off base. I think it would be marvelous if families had access to high quality subsidized daycare, similar to the French crèche system.[/quote]

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