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Home daycare in Roseville/Como Park area?

jellybananasjellybananas
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Hi ladies - I'm due with my first in September and will be looking for care in December when I go back to work.  I'm looking for a great home daycare in the Roseville/Como Park area.  I found a center I really like (the Fairview Kindercare) and will probably hold a spot there just in case, but it's almost $1500 a month which will be a big stretch for us.  

All the home daycares I called (about six of them yesterday) weren't really able to talk about spots for December until the end of the summer.  I'm nervous waiting that long to line up care, but I think that might be the way it works. 

Do you have a provider you love in this area?  Recommendations please!  Thanks! 

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Re: Home daycare in Roseville/Como Park area?

  • LolaBelle515LolaBelle515 member

    I highly recommend the website thinksmall.org  It's a Ramsey County website that you fill out a quick form and a specialist calls you, asks what your daycare preferences are, and they send you a list of all of the licensed daycares (in home and centers) that are in your target area with your priorities.

    I'm sorry to say that we live in Como Park and ended up at a (totally wonderful) in home daycare in Shoreview (near work) because absolutely everything in Como Park and southern Roseville was full.  That was a year and a half ago, so things change...but it is tough to get into the really good ones. They either 'won't know for six months' or 'are booked for two years.'

    Good luck!   

     

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    I can't speak to the Roseville area, I'm in s. Minneapolis, but I started looking recently, for infant placement in Feb 2014, and was able to find in home options that told me they have infant space even this far out. They should know by now to be able to tell you. Keep looking! Good luck!
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  • jellybananasjellybananas
    Thanks ladies - it seems like there are plenty of places that have spots open now, and a few that know a spot is coming up in December, so I'll just have to wait a little bit and try some other places.  I did fill out the thinksmalll form to talk to someone, so maybe that will be beter than doing it on my own.  It's just so intimidating trying to figure out if a home daycare is going to feel right/safe, but hopefully it will all work out!
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  • lsongerlsonger member
    imageLolaBelle515:
    I highly recommend the website thinksmall.org nbsp;It's a Ramsey County website that you fill out a quick form and a specialist calls you, asks what your daycare preferences are, and they send you a list of all of the licensed daycares in home and centers that are in your target area with your priorities.I'm sorry to say that we live in Como Park and ended up at a totally wonderful in home daycare in Shoreview near work because absolutely everything in Como Park and southern Roseville was full. nbsp;That was a year and a half ago, so things change...but it is tough to get into the really good ones. They either 'won't know for six months' or 'are booked for two years.'Good luck! nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;


    LolaBelle could I get the name of the one in Shoreview? We are looking in the northern Little Canada, North Oaks, Shoreview area as well.
    Thanks!!
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  • wittyschaffywittyschaffy member

    thinksmall.org was hugely helpful for us.  Sometimes they know in advance when one of their infants/toddlers will age out into the next group and they can take a new child but not always.  Our current daycare provider quite literally didn't know she was going to have an opening until the day we called and we just happened to call at the right time to get in.  One of her families decided that Mom was going to be a SAHM so sometimes it is just dumb luck.  

    Finding a daycare is a tough step but follow your instincts.  If something feels "off", it probably is time to move onto the next person on the list.  Good luck! 

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