Thinking ahead to Xmas

estherandgeoff2

This is our first Xmas with DD. I am wondering if it is customary to give our DCP's Xmas bonuses? We absolutely love this place. It's a mother and daughter team who have a licensed DC at their home. They take really good care of the kids and DD always comes and goes smiling from ear to ear. We currently pay $650 a month for 4 days a week and will go to 5 days in January for $775 a month. In our area that is really reasonable as most larger centers charge at least $1000.

 Any thoughts?

ali-1411

I never did, but I always went throught a center.  I might consider it for a home daycare.

arm721

I also love my DCP too.  She is awesome with DD.  I hadn't thought about a bonus but I did get her a gift. 

estherandgeoff2

What kind of gift did you get? I was thinking of either cash or a Macy's gift card (both love shopping).

itsmyturn2

I asked a acquaintance who works at DS daycare, what parents usually give. She said a $20 gift card to target or barnes & nobles would be loved by the teachers - since they have more soap and candles than they could use. That seems a little low to me, so I'm thinking I'll give a $50 gift card and something small (fuzzy socks, cookies or candy).

madhatter2003

I will give her two main teachers (they are split morning and afternoons) gift cards and bake a batch of cookies for all of the staff to share, since I know sometimes she hangs out in the 2s room rather than the toddler room, etc.

katie277s

My DS is in a licensed in-home daycare as well.  We plan on giving a gift card to Target, where she can buy whatever she wants.  I didn't do anything at the centers he used to go to.  Good luck!

Melanie2003

we're at a center, not a home, and DD had 5 teachers in the infant room. We gave them $40 cash and a card that we tried to personalize for each, telling them how much we appreciated what they did and how wonderful we thought they were.

It went over really well - they kept thanking us for a long time. I think they got a lot of candles and knick knacks, and cash is appreciated by everyone around the holidays.

arm721

I bought her a sweatshirt that says "Hands down our babysitter is the best"  and it has handprints on it with each of the kids at the day cares names. 

DD goes to a home daycare. 

Pesky

We gave DD's teachers GCs for Christmas.  Her teachers in her new room will also get GCs this Christmas.  It's not a lot quite frankly but it's just a little something to say thank you for your hard work throughout the year.  Tax free of course...

beenbizzy

I've been thinking about this, too, and wondering how to do it.  DS goes to a center and has different teachers based on the day and the schedule.  I'm still not sure - I don't want to leave anyone out, or short them by spreading it so thin. 

Whoo

For our in home provider, we gave her $100 cash in a card.  I feel the same way about her and am very grateful for her.

This year my older daughter is in a preschool/daycare center 3 days a week with a lot of teachers I will probably do something much smaller like 10 dollar starbucks cards and cookies etc.

Mrs.Greeko

Last year for Christmas I gave our in-home daycare provider one weeks extra pay as a separate bonus ($150).  I will do the same this year and every year that we use her.  She takes great care of DD and I feel like this is really a small bonus for what she is doing every day. 

hunter2b

DD goes to an in home daycare - we are planning on doing a Visa GC so that she can use it anywhere.