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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I care for children now, 5 and 7, who spent at least 10 hours a day in a daycare from 6 months until 5 years old.  I can say with certainty that they were negatively effected by this.  They have a very hard time listening, do not eat regular food, throw monumental tantrums, and their parents do not follow through.  Yes,  I am leaving very soon.[/quote]

Sorry for the negative experience you've had with these children, but not all children are affected the same way.  It sounds like there is a different source for the problems with the children you care for that are not necessarily attributable to day care.  My children attended day care since they were 4 months old for about 9-10 hours a day (drop off between 7-8 and pick up by 5:30) and they are well adjusted children in elementary school.  They do very well at school, eat regular meals (not junk food) and don't throw tantrums.  While we would have prefered to not have to send our children to day care for so many hours, shorter hours or foregoing day care altogether was not possible for us.  We've done the best we could -- including telework when possible so that they would spend less hours at day care on those days, and we spend a lot of time with our kids during evenings and weekends (which has meant less grown up time and virtually no use of babsysitters).  To the original poster, once you figure out what will be the arrangement for your family things will work out.[/quote]

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