How young is too young?daycare?
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How young is too young?daycare?
| Tue, 12-02-2003 - 1:00am |
If you have a career and you had a baby what age would you think is apropriate to send your child to daycare/dayhome after they were born?
I have a friend that is a dayhome provider, she has 10mnth old twins and she was provinding care for a 2yr old. Mom of the 2yr old just had a baby and she was back to work when baby was 4days old, in my friends care. It is only half days now, but she is soon going to be full time, the baby is almost 5wks. Thoughts?

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where in the heck did you get THAT from? Luckily, the VAST MAJORITY of parents KNOW that parenting is about more than providing financial support? Does your dh know that parenting is more than providing financial support?
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Big ole DUH! EVERY good, involved parent KNOWS that?
eileen
keep doing what you're doing. i've been doing it for 12+ YEARS (8 years with all 3 kids). She'll just NEVER get it, but it's NOT for our lack of trying.
eileen
Not that it matters, but I did not convince or MAKE my dd1 care for my infant. I was not planning to return to work because of the lack of options in my area and she offered. You have no information to base your determination that she was not an excellent choice. Of course you also have no way of knowing (before coming to your absurd conclusions)that I was no more than a phone call and 5 minutes away, that I was able to pop in at least twice per day, and that dd really enjoyed caring for her brother. Due to her schedule, she wasn't able to continue beyond two semesters, which also worked out nicely since I was pregnant and ready for another mat leave! And I am quite certain that her mind WAS on other things - god I hope so - mine certainly is. Isn't yours? What about other WOHMs, is their mind only on their children? Sheesh, then they should stay home!
my point being the mothers work status has absolutely NOTHING to do with whether the kids do drugs, shoot people, yadah, yadah. it has to do with parents who care regardless of their work status, and even then, the kids are going to do what the kids want to do. did you forget they are born with brains of their own????
i dont care how much experience you have with kids, your views are waaaaaaay off what is real.
and actually, children do not NEED or REQUIRE a sahp, either.
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yes, no doubt you would reach such an ignorantly ERRONEOUS conclusion. In fact, many parents use childcare providers because they HAVE PLANNED -- they've just planned it differently than you, but certainly NOT wrong.
as for parents "not wanting to do it themselves", LOL! right, we have kids so that even on days that we work, we spend UPWARDS of 16+ HOURS "not wanting to do it ourselves". In fact, MOST parents do it by themselves (sure with a little bit of help along the way) because ULTIMATELY, the responsibility for their health, social, emotional, educational and religious needs fall to (wait! can it be?) --- MOM and DAD.
but don't worry. NO ONE here in this discussion expects you to understand any of the REALITY of raising kids in a dual-wohp. you've shown yourself incapable of that kind of empathetic understanding.
eileen
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