What are your thoughts about Daycare?

I worked in a day care setting, and would not want my child in that same setting. it is too structured for someone as young as two. Try and find someone who does in home sitting. i found someone who only has my child and her own. My daughter is thriving there, her language is growing more rapidly than I feel would occur in a day care, and when my baby is having an off day, my sitter can readjust the schedule to fit her needs.

I tried working a second shift job and having my son go to a day care. It did not work. At least around here if your child has health problems like ADHD and difficulty listening to directions, the sitter decides not to deal with the child and calls the parents to come get him. We tried several different private daycares with the same thing happening each time. The one daycare provider said my son sat in the timeout chair almost the entire two hours he was there. He would get in trouble playing or try to take a toy from another child and back in timeout he went. I was appalled when I showed up and he was hanging off the top of a staircase on a banister above it while she was doing paperwork. Hubby and I called COAD the child care agency and filed a report on what happened. We also filed a report with Jobs and Family Services. Now the only people allowed to watch him are his grandparents. I don't trust daycares.

There are good day-cares and better day-cares. Then, there are bad day-cares and horrid day-cares. There are children who adapt to day-care quickly and easily, and there are those who never do. If you do decide to put your child in day-care, investigate several thoroughly, pick the best and ask if you can leave your child for part of the day on a trial basis. Talk to the workers, not just the management. Do they work with the children or consider themselves babysitters? What is the ratio of worker to child? When you get home, listen carefully to what your child has to say. After two or three days, has he made at least one friend? It is important that your child learns to socialize with other children and to trust certain other adults besides you before he has to go to school, but it doesn't have to be through day-care. You, with consideration of your finances, have to make that decision.

im with you on that i dont to much care for daycares myself since the experience my cousin had with her child but im also go be getting a full time job and im still debating on whos go watch my kids if i can find a nice daycare i can fully trust and comfortable with then daycare it is but having seen to found one anywhere in my area

I personally grew up in a daycare and turned out just fine. With that being said though I choose to not put my kids in daycare. I do everything I can to make sure my kids don't have to be in a daycare. There are of course pros and cons to every sitution. If you feel uncomfortable with daycare try to find a friend or family member that is willing to watch your 2 year old, and of course offer to pay them...that has been my savior. I pay my sister in law to watch my kids when I do have a job to do. She is much cheaper than a daycare and much more trustworthy.

I am currently a young mother a 1 beautiful 3 year old girl. I too was the same I was such a paranoid pregnant woman, always scared that there was someone lurking to cut me open. Too much lifetime movies I guess. If I had the choice to put my crazy youngin' in day care I would not hesitate a moment. The same with you I have only had family watch my daughter, and even some I don't let watch her. I have had her in a day care before and she absolutely loved it. You can find a day care with video cameras in them that you can access throughout the day, maybe talk to the other parents to find out how they feel about their child care. Always make sure that you are allowed to come by and sit in any time you would like randomly. Things like this will really help your confidence with your choice, but I will admit that it will not be easy at first. I pulled Alexiah out of daycare early all the time because I missed her. Do remember that as the kids get older they get more creative and eventually they need friends. Alexiah was not too wild up until recently when she turned three. Currently she is walking around with a book in her mouth singing and terroizing the dogs, and if I could afford it she would be in daycare. Sorry for rambling on and on, but day care is good for you and your child they have interaction and structure and you will have a little more free time during the day unless you work those hours.

If your mom can do it even part time, start with that. Supplement with a regular daycare for the part she does not want to do. Make sure that whatever type of daycare you choose, you can drop by randomly. Then follow through by dropping by at odd times. It really takes a well paying job to be able to afford daycare.

I am not a mother, but I don't think I would put my kids in daycare as much as I can too. Only if I really know them.

It would be alright if you let your son be with Day Care... It would be his primary step in learning and able to mingle with other children.

I don't think that's a good idea because your child will not have the real mom's care in this situation... You will be probably like everybody else, but nothing new.