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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Others are managing RTO without a village just like any other parents who work in person and don’t have a village. Having kids always has been a sacrifice for most people. You just had a reprieve for a few years.[/quote]

A lot of child care centers decreased their hours and enrollment during the pandemic for safety reasons and haven’t been able to staff up to increase back to pre pandemic enrollment.

Parenthood has always been difficult, but I’ll put money on this delightful remark having come from someone ignorant to the fact that there is a dwindling supply of child care.[/quote]

I can speak to this as a daycare owner and I’m active in my daycare association. My association is made up of centers and in-home daycares.

The daycare shortage was caused by a variety of issues. Many closed and never reopened after Covid. At first the lockdowns forced temporary closures.  Then they were open only to essential personnel. Some daycares could remain open because they found the clients that needed childcare while others could not. After the closures and when work from home became common, many parents stopped sending their children to daycare because they were working from home  (saves money) which meant centers couldn’t afford to keep staff and so they had to reduce hours and staff. (It was at this point that I came on here to warn people not to do this because it would ultimately end up backfiring.)

Older and experienced in home daycare providers retired early and closed their doors for good because they didn’t want to get Covid.

Before and after school programs were decimated. These programs need to expand quickly and do everything they can to hire. I recommend petitioning your PTA, school admin, and owners of these programs to add staff and get back to pre-Covid operations.

IMO centers were the most impacted in terms of staffing and hours and have not recovered. Parents might need to look more at in-home daycares, there are many who have space and are actively looking to fill them.

Here’s a tip for me for school age families, look for an in-home daycare in your school district and see if they can do before and aftercare, including bus pick ups. Many of them offer this service.
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