Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 14:13     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only 9-5?
Every daycare we looked at was open 7-6 or at least 7.30-5.30.


If I have to work 8 hours a day, even if my schedule is 9-5, how do I work my 8 hours and still do pickup and drop-off at the same time?


Especially since OP is in a residential neighborhood in rockville and not in an office building. I assume many parents have to commute to her in traffic at the end of the day.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 14:00     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
I wouldn't do this because OP sounds judgmental, inflexible and mean. Not the kind of person I want raising my child.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 13:02     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only 9-5?
Every daycare we looked at was open 7-6 or at least 7.30-5.30.


If I have to work 8 hours a day, even if my schedule is 9-5, how do I work my 8 hours and still do pickup and drop-off at the same time?


Staggered schedules. I actually agree with the OP and we noticed that if my son spent more than 8 hours per day at daycare he was more difficult, had larger emotional outbursts, was more hyper, needed more downtime and connection, etc. Part of this was that they required him to lay down for 2 hours but it was a problem even when he was napping so 8-430 was too long for him. We ended up reducing his hours to preK only 9-230 and my DH works 530-215 and I work 915-545. I have him in the morning, he has him in the afternoon. We are together from 6-8 bedtime.
It is a huge privilege to work from home and have flex hours but will prepare us for schooling hours as we will keep the same schedules. We may do aftercare but unlikely since the cost wouldnt be worth the hour or so we might use it. We dont make a lot of money but theres no way we would increase our incomes enough to offset the hours missed, need for before and aftercare, etc.


That’s so great that it works for your family and we like to keep our time in daycare lower as well. I also think it’s fine for a home daycare to be 9-5 (not at $700 though). What bothered me was the OP’s judgment of other parents who might fall into the needing more hours camp.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 10:55     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only 9-5?
Every daycare we looked at was open 7-6 or at least 7.30-5.30.


If I have to work 8 hours a day, even if my schedule is 9-5, how do I work my 8 hours and still do pickup and drop-off at the same time?


Staggered schedules. I actually agree with the OP and we noticed that if my son spent more than 8 hours per day at daycare he was more difficult, had larger emotional outbursts, was more hyper, needed more downtime and connection, etc. Part of this was that they required him to lay down for 2 hours but it was a problem even when he was napping so 8-430 was too long for him. We ended up reducing his hours to preK only 9-230 and my DH works 530-215 and I work 915-545. I have him in the morning, he has him in the afternoon. We are together from 6-8 bedtime.
It is a huge privilege to work from home and have flex hours but will prepare us for schooling hours as we will keep the same schedules. We may do aftercare but unlikely since the cost wouldnt be worth the hour or so we might use it. We dont make a lot of money but theres no way we would increase our incomes enough to offset the hours missed, need for before and aftercare, etc.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 10:47     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:Only 9-5?
Every daycare we looked at was open 7-6 or at least 7.30-5.30.


If I have to work 8 hours a day, even if my schedule is 9-5, how do I work my 8 hours and still do pickup and drop-off at the same time?
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 10:43     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
I don't think it's unreasonable for a home daycare to have shorter hours of opening, and it is in line with my browsing experience (although we've never used one). It's usually part of the package deal. Some people prefer home daycares, others prefer centers. But in general people are paying a lower price for home daycares and in return for the bargain they're putting up with shorter hours and more frequent closures/vacations.

$700 a week might be closer to center prices but at a center you're getting longer/broader choice of hours, fewer closures, and usually some array of other frills like cameras in the infant rooms and access to special activities on-site.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 08:41     Subject: Re:is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Add to that 4-5 hrs every Sunday. Complete house cleaning, food for couple of days cooked for kids. We used to make our own bread in my former daycare, so i would make a batch of yeast dough every sunday, and shape and bake loaves with the kids during the week. Oh the wonderful smell of it.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2022 07:30     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Only 9-5?
Every daycare we looked at was open 7-6 or at least 7.30-5.30.


Right? Even if your kid is only in care 8 hours a day, not everyone needs to same 8 hours or even the same 8 hours every day (looking at you 8:30am standup on Tuesdays).


On the other side of that coin, beware of over extended small home daycare situations with these hours. Cleaning/prep/shopping add about an hour to a day, so this would be a 11-12 hour workday for a single provider operating alone. Leads to rapid burnout and isn’t great for anyone involved.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 21:02     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:Only 9-5?
Every daycare we looked at was open 7-6 or at least 7.30-5.30.


Right? Even if your kid is only in care 8 hours a day, not everyone needs to same 8 hours or even the same 8 hours every day (looking at you 8:30am standup on Tuesdays).
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 20:57     Subject: Re:is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?Ow
Anonymous wrote:Op here. I would not be interested in the families who use 10 hrs of daycare a day since it is higher than what is considered OK amount of time away from the parents. As shown by research, for young children the time away from the parents should be less than 45 hrs a week.
... "The study, conducted again by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that those who spend long hours in child care may experience more stress and are at increased risk of becoming overly aggressive (17 percent) and developing other behavior problems."

Also, babies need more time to bond with their parents!

Btw, $700 was a suggestion only. Lower number may work as well. I however cannot see a functioning small daycare that charges $300 a week - it would hardly pay even one person's wages (presumably, the owner) plus all the daycare expenses (4 kids=less than 5K a month), so I do not believe those numbers exist in the fall of 2022. Unless the owner takes 10 kids and exceeds her allowed capacity.


Wow, you are something special.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 20:41     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
If you and your daycare are as awesome as you say, then longer hours should not have much of a negative impact if any.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 20:37     Subject: Re:is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:Op here. I would not be interested in the families who use 10 hrs of daycare a day since it is higher than what is considered OK amount of time away from the parents. As shown by research, for young children the time away from the parents should be less than 45 hrs a week.
... "The study, conducted again by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that those who spend long hours in child care may experience more stress and are at increased risk of becoming overly aggressive (17 percent) and developing other behavior problems."

Also, babies need more time to bond with their parents!

Btw, $700 was a suggestion only. Lower number may work as well. I however cannot see a functioning small daycare that charges $300 a week - it would hardly pay even one person's wages (presumably, the owner) plus all the daycare expenses (4 kids=less than 5K a month), so I do not believe those numbers exist in the fall of 2022. Unless the owner takes 10 kids and exceeds her allowed capacity.

You can believe whatever you want in your la-la land.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 20:10     Subject: Re:is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Anonymous wrote:Op here. I would not be interested in the families who use 10 hrs of daycare a day since it is higher than what is considered OK amount of time away from the parents. As shown by research, for young children the time away from the parents should be less than 45 hrs a week.
... "The study, conducted again by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that those who spend long hours in child care may experience more stress and are at increased risk of becoming overly aggressive (17 percent) and developing other behavior problems."

Also, babies need more time to bond with their parents!

Btw, $700 was a suggestion only. Lower number may work as well. I however cannot see a functioning small daycare that charges $300 a week - it would hardly pay even one person's wages (presumably, the owner) plus all the daycare expenses (4 kids=less than 5K a month), so I do not believe those numbers exist in the fall of 2022. Unless the owner takes 10 kids and exceeds her allowed capacity.


I work part time and have never used more than 27 hours a week of childcare but I am disgusted by your comments. Check your privilege. This is classist and gross. There are plenty of working families out there who have no choice but to use more than 45 hours a week of childcare in order to make ends meet or in order to keep daily life running. I can't personally speak to the research on the point about total time in childcare, but it is absolutely disgusting to make that kind of a blanket judgment about other families and to state that kind of a preference about what kind of families you're interested in serving. It's one thing to cater to certain families and situations -- it's quite another to throw out there that people who are doing something different are doing something wrong or bad.

Just EW. I might be exactly the kind of family you'd be "interested in," but if I got any whiff of this from you, I would RUN. You don't belong in childcare if you don't respect families.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 19:58     Subject: Re:is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Op here. I would not be interested in the families who use 10 hrs of daycare a day since it is higher than what is considered OK amount of time away from the parents. As shown by research, for young children the time away from the parents should be less than 45 hrs a week.
... "The study, conducted again by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, found that those who spend long hours in child care may experience more stress and are at increased risk of becoming overly aggressive (17 percent) and developing other behavior problems."

Also, babies need more time to bond with their parents!

Btw, $700 was a suggestion only. Lower number may work as well. I however cannot see a functioning small daycare that charges $300 a week - it would hardly pay even one person's wages (presumably, the owner) plus all the daycare expenses (4 kids=less than 5K a month), so I do not believe those numbers exist in the fall of 2022. Unless the owner takes 10 kids and exceeds her allowed capacity.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2022 15:35     Subject: is there demand on infant home daycare in Rockville?
Only 9-5?
Every daycare we looked at was open 7-6 or at least 7.30-5.30.