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amother

OP ↓

Wed, Oct 30 2024, 7:33 pm

What age do you send your kids to daycare? And do you work or not?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:34 am

anyone?

amother

DarkYellow ↓

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:36 am

One kid started daycare at 2.5 years old, about 4.5 hours a day.
The rest were home till they started pre school at age 3-4.
Some kids are fine at home, while others need the company and stimulation.

amother

Sapphire ↓

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:36 am

I think kids benefit so much more from personal attention than a daycare. Maybe when they are 4 they need more action but before that they need much more attention than a daycare can ever give.

amother

↑ OP

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:45 am

amother Sapphire wrote:

I think kids benefit so much more from personal attention than a daycare. Maybe when they are 4 they need more action but before that they need much more attention than a daycare can ever give.

do you not work? or do you work from home?

amother

↑ DarkYellow

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:47 am

amother Sapphire wrote:

I think kids benefit so much more from personal attention than a daycare. Maybe when they are 4 they need more action but before that they need much more attention than a daycare can ever give.

This depends on the child. Some kids really do need company & are just not happy at home.

amother

↑ Sapphire

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:50 am

amother OP wrote:

do you not work? or do you work from home?

I work, I had to send my kids to daycare before they were 1, and I wish I hadn't. If you have the option of not sending to daycare, don't. Or if you have someone from the family who can take care, it's much better emotionally for the child, especially for boys since they mature slower compared girls.

#BestBubby ↓

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:53 am

A lot depends on having a small ratio and good morah

↑ #BestBubby

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:55 am

Lots of people say toddlers enjoy daycare and are bored at home.

But does it make a kids more creative and imaginative to learn to play independently as opposed to being entertained by a morah and lots of other kids?

amother

Waterlily

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 12:58 am

first few kids, I had a roundrobin for my 2yos and each mother did a diff day of the week. It was for 4 hrs a day, 9-1.
I sent those kids to preschool at 3.

Next few kids no one was available for a roundrobin. Kept kids home with me in the day until 3yo playgroup.

Everyone is well adjusted.

I was a SAHM/worked from home in evenings so was available to be with kids and do roundrobins in mornings.

amother

Ghostwhite

Fri, Nov 01 2024, 5:15 am

I work so my kids go as soon as my maternity leave is over. My first few kids that was 6 weeks, later ones I got 12 weeks.

First kid I did a small in home daycare- first one I did was awful, second (a bubby with an assistant) was amazing.

Second kid I did a nanny share for a year because I couldn’t get a daycare spot and then she moved to daycare at 13 months.

After that we got straight into daycare after maternity leave.

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