How young is too young?daycare?

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How young is too young?daycare?
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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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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 4:58pm
If I had a nickel for every time I had to snap jeans, help with boots, bookbags, owies, applesauce containers, etc. in my years in the public schools and in working with school age children. . .I'd be freaking independently wealthy.
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 4:59pm
Except Lauren doesnt have an agenda!
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:01pm

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party was canceled due to snow. But I didn't cancel the babysitter. You figure out the rest.

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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:01pm

Hopefully he'll do some squeezin' tonight .... he he he


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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:01pm
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:03pm

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Hollie and her boyfriend sitting in a tree. . .


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Then comes Hollie and a baby carriage.

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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:09pm
Actually, how teachers wish people would view them really doesn't have much to do with what roles they actually fill. They are, in fact "babysitters" or "caregivers" because if they weren't, we wouldn't be allowed to send young children to school. Their role isn't limitted to that, but for elementary school at least, its certainly part of it. In other areas, athletics for example, you will commonly find that the coaches very specifically do not have the "babysitter" or "caregiver" role as part of the job description. And you can tell, because parents aren't *allowed* to leave the children unattended. The parents have to stay - or they have to arrange for a "babystitter" or "caregiver" to stay. The alternative for the teacher-who-isn't-a-babysitter is to have each child accompanied by a parent, or a dcp or some other designated caregiver. Most would not welcome that as a viable solution.
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:19pm
I barely made it to two months with each of my children, because my supply just was not there, therefore, i was frustrated, and the baby was. when i started ff the babies were happier and so was i. it was what it was, and we moved onto bottle feeding. i had no guilt.
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:22pm
What about when the child is learning to count by twos and make bar graphs showing who in the class takes the bus to school, who gets a drive, and who walks? Then does "school" include "substitute care". I believe the law requires that it be so. If you are unsure as to whether your school is operating as the law requires, or not, you should find out. It could be that your school is operating within the limits of the law, even if teachers do not have caregiver responsibility, by making use of unusual childcare provisions. In which case it must be that you have been remiss in providing the expected accomanying caregiver for your child. Perhaps complaints have already been filed with the childrens protection service organization in your area, against you, as a parent, for negligence. I wouldn't let this one slide if I were you.
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 5:30pm
And that is a perfect example of how bfing is *not* best for the baby. bfing isnt just about the "make-up" of the breast milk, and the "skin to skin" thing is hilarious. so if you dont bf you cant let your skin touch????? bu!!sh!t!, i am not embarrassed to say, there were plenty of times our babies were skin to skin without the bfing. it wasnt anything that would be considered inappropriate, but i do think holding the baby while he/she is naked up close to the parents chest and letting them experience the closeness is very healthy. why would one have to breast feed to do that??? I just dont understand how anyone can be so shut off to "alternate" methods in life. how closeminded.

p.s. i might add, you seemed much happier going back to work also. i just dont think you would have been happy if you continued to be a sahm. it takes a certain temperment that we dont *all* have.

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