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Child Care Recommendations Please
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Hello Ladies! I hoping you can help me out. MH and I are looking for recommendations/ideas for child care. I am not due until November, but Iam trying to get a head start. We have some ideas, but we are still searching. We live in the Dublin area. Thanks ladies!
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Re: Child Care Recommendations Please
I have family taking care of childcare for now so I can't rec the place I'm using, but I have done a TON of looking around the area; here's what I found out.
The Ohio State Childcare center is fantastic...but it has a yearlong waiting list, so if you want it you should get on now! We are still waiting for a spot (hopefully in the next month or two!) but have heard nothing but good things. They have a sliding tuition scale based on what your family makes, which is also nice.
I toured Little Dreamers, Big Believers-- another center, they have a location in Grandview & one on High Street. I liked them a lot; especially as the kids get older, it seems like a wonderful place. It's out of our price range for now, but if you're willing to spend a little more for really fantastic care it's worth looking at.
My only caution is to be wary of home DCP, unless they're through a network (Family Traditions Childcare in Bexley is an in-home network I looked at & really liked-- we are also on a waiting list there!). There are some fabulous ones, but they also have less reliability than a center. I used an in-home DCP when we lived in NJ and had such a good experience that I wanted to find one here...so I found a place I loved, loved the woman & her philosophy...and then after two weeks she told me she didn't have the time to work with my daughter's separation anxiety and I was out of a DCP that same day, which was really tough.
Everything is so exciting when you're one!
I knew someone that used to work at the Goddard school. They weren't following all the state laws the govern daycare centers. She quit after getting resistance from the owners to follow the laws. She's a very "by the book" type, so I totally trust her.
The Gathering Place on Gemini Pkwy in the Polaris area is wonderful but pricey.
Together since 2000, Married 10/17/2009
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2/11-6/11 Medicated cycles w/RE
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Do you mind expanding on why you don't recommend Little Dreamers? I had heard great things about them and toured the facility and got a good impression. We're signed up to start in October. I hadn't heard anything bad about them and I'd like to get your opinion if you don't mind. TIA.