Daycares

MatteaGabrielle · January 2017

I personally prefer the centers over I'm homes unless you can find a really good reference.
Centers have more staff. You're not going to be out of luck if the home daycare owner is sick and her help is too or work with them while sick. Centers can substitute teachers. The ratios are the same so even if there are more kids in a room, the amount of teachers increases.
And being in a center with preschool, then they can just transition with familiarity.

If you do choose a home daycare I highly recommend transitioning to a preschool before they start school. I am a vpk teacher and so far every student I've received that went to a home daycare prior to starting my class has always been a struggle for me. Either behaviours because they didn't know how to play with more then one child or academically because when a caregiver has mixed ages, they normally can't add the education in. I'm sure not all home daycare are like that. I know of a friend who tries to add great learning, but I think a majority are babysitting and not learning.

smallbutmighty77 · January 2017

I'm in Chicago and just started looking. Daycares are on my list, but a lot of the people in my neighborhood do nanny shares. I like the idea of a nanny share, maybe for the first year. More attention, still socialization, less getting suck. My upstairs neighbors are in one so I'm talking to them about the plus/minus. Even nanny shares around here you need to start looking early. So much to look into, research, consider. it's a lot.

dmbfan46835 · January 2017

@matteagabrielle I 100% agree about transitioning to preschool. Ours is daycare and pre k and I love that he will start kindergarten with friends from the center already. DH doesn't call it daycare. He always calls it school. Every morning we ask you ready to go to school and DS is like bye, time to party with my friends!

budzynb · January 2017

@nimmunogirl gahhhhhh I forgot about that! Do you happen to know if that's per household or per person? Do might be able to do it too. We love our pretax deductions lol. I think daycare costs are also a write off so centers are great because it's traceable compared to under the table at-home sitters

nimmunogirl · January 2017

@budzynb, it is per family sadly. CPA Hubby also said that there is a dependent credit, but the amount depends on your income... it's usually around $500. I don't think you can write Daycare off

asun123 · January 2017

@MrsG1019
Yes, It was in home and in Santee.

ColoradoHiker · January 2017

In Baltimore you basically have to start applying the moment you conceive, if you want to get into the good places. Most won't take babies under 6 weeks.

szwill86 · April 2017

@itsfinallynaptime Judging by you only joining the Bump in April and your posting history listings of only posting on BMB daycare threads, you have no interest in truly being helpful for a group of ladies that have been supporting each other for 5+ months and are only interested in promoting a company that you have some association with. If you were invested in this group for real, you would have seen that this thread has been dead since January.

JWatt5 · April 2017

DH & I are going to try to get our LO in to a centre - I like the transitioning all the way to JK aspect and learning environment but we are definantly still on waitlists for Home Day Cares - they start interviews/visits 3 months before you'll need the services. It's so hard to get into a Centre here as a FTM - mostly because those who already have their children enrolled get first dibs on the spots & most only have 8 infant spots at a time so the list is long (I got on the list at 4 months pregnant and I may not get in for September 2018 still - agh),

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