I was reading through the thread on childcare and it made me wonder how many people on this board with kids send them to daycare vs. having them at home.
POLL: Daycare
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My wife does Corporate Wellness Coaching/Speaking and trains a couple private groups early in the mornings a few times a week, so her daytime schedule is fairly flexible, but to allow her time for admin stuff and a set time for meetings/teleconferences etc. we have them with a sitter two days a week after preschool/kindergarten and my mother watches them once a week. The other two days my wife picks them up from school and keeps those afternoons free from work. Sometimes I wonder about them being in 3 different places after school each week and how that might affect them. A lot of times they'll ask where they are going after school that day, although they're both understanding days of the week better these days so they remember.
I had a mix of a couple on your poll. My wife worked at a doctor's office where the doctor's parents, an elderly couple that loved kids and friends of the family, lived next door and would watch our kids for next to nothing. It was great. They eventually got a little old to watch them so they went to daycare for a year. Then my wife went back to UCF to get her masters and CREOLE watched them for a while. Then the kids got old enough for the pre-K program and went to the same school my wife worked at.
I don't think daycare is bad. I'm just curious about other people's experience with how they raised their young children. I have a 3 year old and an 18 month that we keep at home. I usually watch them two days a week while my wife goes into the office. I work about three days a week away from home. I understand there are trade offs when deciding not to do daycare. My three year old is slowed down by us planning activities around the younger one. I appreciate the stories of how others have raised their children at this age.
Even if NiseyyD and I were independently wealthy and retired and at home all of the time our kids would still be in day care. I don't think that there is anything you can do at home, no matter how hard you try and how much you work with them, to make up for the social and educational advances they make in a well structured environment like the one that Star Child provides.
My oldest is 2 years old and one of the most well behaved kids you will ever meet, some of that is us instilling discipline in her but a lot of that is Star Child reinforcing that daily. About two weeks ago I went in to drop something off at her class as they were getting ready to go to the cafeteria for lunch, they were all standing in their lines (masking tape on the floor) and had their arms behind their back, she knew enough to not run to me and get out of line and waited for me to come over and give her a quick hug and then she went back about her day. I was beyond impressed with that and just how well she followed the rules.
As far as the education, she amazes me each day with how much she knows, she's recognizing letters and can spell her name, again she's 2.
I personally believe that even the most involved parent (classes, taking the kids to mommy and me groups, etc...) can't replace what you get at a daycare, just the fact that parents need breaks and can't get them when teachers at daycare can sub in and out for each other alone is a big difference. Then you add in the consistency and the training and education that those teachers get and it's just not even a contest for me.
My oldest is 2 years old and one of the most well behaved kids you will ever meet, some of that is us instilling discipline in her but a lot of that is Star Child reinforcing that daily. About two weeks ago I went in to drop something off at her class as they were getting ready to go to the cafeteria for lunch, they were all standing in their lines (masking tape on the floor) and had their arms behind their back, she knew enough to not run to me and get out of line and waited for me to come over and give her a quick hug and then she went back about her day. I was beyond impressed with that and just how well she followed the rules.
As far as the education, she amazes me each day with how much she knows, she's recognizing letters and can spell her name, again she's 2.
I personally believe that even the most involved parent (classes, taking the kids to mommy and me groups, etc...) can't replace what you get at a daycare, just the fact that parents need breaks and can't get them when teachers at daycare can sub in and out for each other alone is a big difference. Then you add in the consistency and the training and education that those teachers get and it's just not even a contest for me.
All I can say is there is only one right way to raise "your" kids. No matter what each of us did, that was what was right for our situations.
Now there are lots of wrong ways to raise a kid.
1) In a meth lab
2) With Uncle Grandpa
3) As a USF fan
4) In North Korea
5) with the last name Kardashian
6) whatever Will Smith did to end up with Jaden Smith
I voted YES
But that is wrong - my son has been in an actual preschool learning actual things (letters, numbers, shapes, colors) since he was 18 months. He starts K in the fall and on his most recent readiness test he scored in the first grade level. So, he has been looked after by other adults with other children but not in "daycare" where you drop your kids off to do nothing all day.
But that is wrong - my son has been in an actual preschool learning actual things (letters, numbers, shapes, colors) since he was 18 months. He starts K in the fall and on his most recent readiness test he scored in the first grade level. So, he has been looked after by other adults with other children but not in "daycare" where you drop your kids off to do nothing all day.
Voted yes for small in home daycare. My daughter is learning spanish and more importantly social skills she simply wouldnt learn at home no matter how often we took her out to parks and other things like that.
Yep, that's why I called them teachers and not nannies and before 18 months they are still teaching them things every day, hell the infant class still has a Spanish teacher come in every day and talk to the kids, even if it's not something they are actually learning, it's getting them used to other languages. Here is my 6 month old's daily schedule
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