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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]To this I would add that the $10-12/hour daycare workers are supervised by someone who earns considerably more. These daycare workers are not paid to make decisions, etc. but to maintain order in the class, make sure diapers are changed on schedule, lunch and snack are served, etc. Your nanny is sole charge when you are gone - one would hope you take this into consideration when evaluating candidates and compensation. There is clearly some middle ground between the $10/hour daycare worker and the $20 hour entitled nanny.[/quote]

I'd actually disagree with this as I've used daycare and had a nanny. The daycare office staff is more focused on the overall running of facilities, business aspects (billing/collecting), compliance with inspectors, hiring etc. While they do supervise the daycare workers the lead worker or teacher as they refer to them really is making the same type of daily decisions that a nanny is making. As much as I really like our nanny, she isn't making big decisions beyond what the infant daycare worker was making on a daily basis.

You could argue that in daycare you could hire workers with far less experience because they can be trained by the more experience childcare givers on site and have closer supervision. However at our daycare all the teachers were required to have child care certifications and the lead teacher/worker in the room needed a degree. Our nanny is great but she like most nannies doesn't have this level of education.

I remember asking a few of the teachers why they chose to work in daycare rather than be a nanny since a nanny paid more. This was long before we decided to go the nanny route so we weren't poaching. They seemed to look down on nannies, certainly didn't view them as individuals who make bigger decisions and saw being a nanny as a stigma. [/quote]

Interesting. I don't know if I trust what they give as answers for choosing to be daycare workers.

I know someone who works at a daycare and she chooses that because although it is lower pay, she has a much higher quality of life. As a nanny, if you are watching an infant, you can't even go to the bathroom sometimes. You don't have that problem at a daycare and you get scheduled breaks. You have co-workers you can discuss last night's TV show with. You can participate in halloween parties that you didn't have to do 100% of the preparation for. She also can attend training classes paid for by the company although I don't think she cares that much about that. It's not as isolating to work in a daycare facility. You are dealing with a lot more people on a professional environment instead of dealing with pleasing one set of parents all the time. She had a bad experience working for a family before although her stories sound bad and as an employer, I would never have that kind of expectation and communications with my nanny so the family you get is kind of a luck of the draw for the nanny. That is why she works there instead of being a nanny.[/quote]

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