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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey asswipe, PP who hates daycare: we can afford a nanny, but want our kid to actually learn things and meet other kids, so we pay for an excellent daycare/preschool/whatever you want to call it.

So kindly STFU. [/quote]

+1. Can afford a nanny but my preschooler desperately misses the socialization and her daycare is scheduled to open on a hybrid live/online basis in several weeks following CDC guidelines. Given the low risk for our family, I am weighing my daughter’s mental health needs heavily. [/quote]

Yeah, mine has always been in a very safe environment from an infection control perspective--a tiny group with three kids who are the same age (within a month of each other) including mine, the other parents all work in low-risk occupations. [/quote]

Please - your very young children have zero "mental health needs" regarding daycare.  Your child needs a safe and loving family. A few playdates - find another family and hike in the woods.  I don't care if you send your kid to daycare or not, but this narrative that extremely young kids are experiencing some kind of mental health hardship because they are not going to daycare is absolutely ridiculous, especially in the face of real mental health concerns that other are facing.  [/quote]

Are 4 year olds “extremely young”?  These ages are stuck in the middle of infants who don’t need external (to family) socialization and those older kids who can enjoy socialization benefit from zoom and the like (which, though not ideal, is something). To act as if these children will be totally fine just socializing with their family until we have a vaccine that may never come is absolutely ridiculous. [/quote]

+1 Any kid that is in a setting where they are doing hybrid live/online is probably in a 4s class. That's old enough where kids do enjoy and benefit from socialization with a cohort of familiar peers. it's also an age where kids are starting to prep for the routines of kindergarten, which is a harder adjustment to make around here because the days are really long.[/quote]

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