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jennyelf
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Need to vent (Daycare)
jennyelf
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When I went to pick up LO from daycare yesterday, the director asked me to come in to her office. Short story, due to a variety of things that were brought to the director's attention, we may not be eligible to use the daycare! LO has been in this daycare for 9 months now, and I was very careful to ask about eligibility when we first signed up. Now the director says she was mistaken about the rules for eligibility, and she needs to get further detail, but the end result may be that we aren't actually eligible to use this daycare and may be given a 30 day notice in the next few weeks.
I am super stressed. This daycare is affordable and only a mile from my work. Most of the daycare centers around here are at least $600/month more and have multiple month long waiting lists and since LO is still under 15 months and considered an infant, it's going to be really hard to find a place that has openings.
Really hoping that it turns out I'm still eligible, but I'm frantically trying to prove that while at the same time trying to find an alternative place in case I'm not.
ETA: this affects at least 20 other families at the center as well. So we're all not having a good day right now.
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Re: Need to vent (Daycare)
The daycare has eligibility requirements? I've never heard of that.
Can you try an in-home place? Care.com has a section for daycares.
This. I'm going to assume, perhaps incorrectly, that this has something to do with income requirements or perhaps it's only for people in the military or something? I can't think of any other reason(s) for having eligibility requirements.
Perhaps you and one or two of the other families can get together for a nanny share?
Military daycare. It's currently a question now of contractor eligibility and what makes one a contractor.
My husband is really uncomfortable with in home daycares (already went through this with him when we first looked into daycare options a year ago and that is not going to change), but we are contemplating whether or not a nanny share would make sense.
You obviously have to be comfortable with where you are putting your child every day. However, I just wanted to say that I was a little apprehensive of home daycares too. I only began looking into them because they were more affordable per week than centers in my area.
DS has been in a home daycare since I went back to work almost three months ago. It has been perfect and I cannot imagine a better place for him. I like it so much better than a center, personally. Perhaps consider looking into visiting 2 or 3 home daycares and check them out with an open mind. It made a world of difference for me.
I know the state of Michigan has a .gov site that lists all of the licensed daycares, both home and center. I used this to find the daycare I use now. Perhaps your state has this as well.
That's pretty much what I'm doing since I've gotten the heads up about the situation.
It's for military families and contractors.
That's one of the many reasons that a home daycare won't work for us. While we have some flexibility in our jobs, neither of us really can take days off both when our kid is sick and when the daycare provider is sick. A center mitigates that risk. Also our center is open all days but federal holidays unlike many home daycares that take 2 weeks off on top of holidays.
Jenny, for some reason I knew you were going to say it was a military/contractor thing. Probably because I've done a lot of gov. contracting for the military.
I'm surprised it was ever an option for you to take your LO to the base daycare. I can only imagine this being okay if the base is really isolated (like Edwards AFB in the desert) or it's OCONUS.
Anyway...good luck! I hope things work out for you.