@flockofmoosen3 your in home daycare sounds amazing! I don't know much about in home daycare's at all but I wonder if that is more common than I think. My bro and I went to an in home day care as kids (but I was almost too old to be in daycare at that point, I helped out a lot) and now that you mention it I don't remember TV ever being on.
Thanks ladies for your input. My husband and I are going to sit down this evening and hash it out. I will keep you all posted. I'm also going to bring up the idea of keeping DS where he is and enrolling DD (the infant) in the at-home daycare....I'll need to calculate what the cost savings will be.
@wildtot I love that you found a place with so few kids....this daycare will have SEVEN (including DS and DD)...I think 1:1 time is a big part of my reservations
@tarheelgirl8 Yup, it's our emergency fund. We had to put a roof on our house after a bad storm this fall so our actual savings account is like nil. Also, my son is very vocal and is vocab is expanding on a daily basis. He is starting to string sentences together so I feel comfortable that he could let me know if something was amiss. However, I still share your worry that there aren't managers, cameras, etc. because that is what I am accustomed to.
@flockofmoosen3 Um, your in-home daycare sounds awesome! Kids Yoga?? Unfortunately, this lady is a little "old school" so I'm not sure that this place will be like that. She's a little less "crunchy" than I'd like but that's okay....she reminds me of my mom. Tough but fair.
@foxbaby2016 idk anything really about day cares but draining for savings for daycare doesn’t reallt seem worth it. We don’t have savings and it definitely makes me even more stressed not having one.
the ratio thing always confuses me... We're supposed to be 4:1 as well but the daycare keeps doing fuzzy math and have to cycle through which kid they send to the other room which kind of annoys me...if my kid is supposed to be in Toddlers B, she's used to the teachers and kids in Toddlers B, those are the teachers we know why does she get sent over to Toddlers A arbitrarily? It feels like overbooked flights to me...
@foxbaby2016 and @SmashJam yes, she is amazing...which is why I literally cry in despair every time I think there's a possibility we need to go somewhere else for daycare to make it work for 3 kids just so I can continue working. It's self-inflicted pain.
Good luck foxbaby, do what feels right for your family, remember daycare is temporary, and if you think you may need to make a change get yourself on those waitlists now...and don't go completely broke either! The furnace always breaks at the worst times!
@gingerbride26 I feel like daycare always has an overbooking issue, due to lack of reliability in teachers/turnover and the demand they face in an area. My DS was always sent home for random things-he threw up his milk so since he threw up he has to go home. Fever of 101 even if its teething its over 100 so he has to go home. He *might* have pink eye. I would go to the doc and the doc would be like, none of those are reasons they legally have to send your kid home. Every time he got sent home for something dumb I would assume a teacher didn't show or got sick and had to leave early and their ratios were messed up.
@SmashJam that is frustrating. DS gets shuffled around at his daycare too but I have never felt he was sent home with an excuse. If anything, the directors fill in when needed.
@SmashJam that is super annoying. I don't think she's ever been sent home, maybe twice in two years? There was one bad experience in infants where they called saying she started shaking uncontrollably while feeding her, so I left work freaking and in tears after calling the pediatrician who said to just bring her in and we'd figure it out together (I love my pediatrician!!), got to the dr and relayed the information from daycare and the dr said daycare was crazy lol there's a common nervous system reaction if an infant is falling asleep while eating, and he said this was textbook for that and to just sit her up more while giving her bottles at daycare. They also didn't handle her allergic reaction to amoxicillin well, we ended up going to the ped 2-3 times extra because they didn't seem to understand it would stay in her system for a few weeks and hives were going to happen occasionally.
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@wildtot I love that you found a place with so few kids....this daycare will have SEVEN (including DS and DD)...I think 1:1 time is a big part of my reservations
@tarheelgirl8
Yup, it's our emergency fund. We had to put a roof on our house after a bad storm this fall so our actual savings account is like nil.
@flockofmoosen3
Um, your in-home daycare sounds awesome! Kids Yoga??
Good luck foxbaby, do what feels right for your family, remember daycare is temporary, and if you think you may need to make a change get yourself on those waitlists now...and don't go completely broke either! The furnace always breaks at the worst times!