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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep - welcome to DC!

We live in Montgomery County and pay $3600/month for an infant and a 3 yo. Writing that check makes me want to throw up a little. [/quote]
Why do you want to vomit about the high cost of substitute care of *your* baby and three year old? Are you happier to write a bigger check for your mortgage payment?

Do you not understand the (typically) permanent consequences of inadequate care of such little children? Hence, The Hell of American Daycare. Google it and educate yourself a bit. Perhaps you'll then be happy. to. pay. for. decent. childcare. Perhaps not.
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Decent childcare doesn't have to come with a price tag to put you in a poor house.

My work has an onsite daycare center.  The monthly cost of that is $2,200.00 for infants.  There is also a waiting list to get in.

I chose to put my daughter in a home daycare near my house that costs about $1,300 a month.  That's with only five babies and two caregivers, huge yard, organic food and homey environment.  I fail to see what the center has that's so much better than our home daycare that it should be worth a thousand bucks more a month.

My son, who is five, is at a language immersion preschool, which costs $1,200/month.  This includes age appropriate instruction in language, reading, math, theater, music, dance, gymnastics, onsite playground, and now in the summer, daily trips to the nature center and the swimming pool.  I don't see how preschools that charge 36K a year are so much better than what we're getting.

So it's not the cost, it's the lack of relationship between cost and worth.  Good childcare doesn't have to put you in a poorhouse. [/quote]

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