PrintDaycares are not cheap, and for any parents with more than one child you are talking about paying over $1,000/ month just to have someone watch your kids for around 8-10 hrs/ day. This fee will remain same whether you take your child in or not. When they get sick 4 out of the 5 days, you still will have to pay that week’s fee.
Then, there is the fact that you have no idea what happens to your child when you leave them at the daycare. You hope and pray that the teacher or caretaker will be loving and caring to your child and not just show that love when you are there. It is truly difficult when they are just babies, or at the age where they can’t really tell you what happened to them whether it is good or bad.
I know parents always have that inner instinct and you just wonder it means anything or not. you drop your child off and he or she cries and becomes very clingy, even though this is not entirely an indication of something going wrong, but you still wonder. You go back to pick your child up after work and you find them sitting on a corner by themselves with a sad look on their face, and they spring up and run and jump onto you the minute you walk through the door… Then you keep on wondering, you ask the teachers how your child did for the day and they tell you great…You can’t just ignore that feeling all the time.
So, when you do find a good sitter, someone your children love and are truly happy to see them – Take care of them and reward them sometime. It doesn’t matter if this person is a teacher, a friend, or your neighbor’s kid. When you do find a good sitter, it is like ten big chips have been lifted off your shoulder, it is like peace of mind, and a good day at work , i mean happy you everyday. You do not have to worry yourself sick about what your child is going through every minute of the day, before you can get to them.
Julian had a not so good sitter at once, it was a teacher in his daycare…I saw all the signs something wasn’t right. I followed my instincts had him switch classes and it was like a whole new child. Come to find out, all the other teachers new how bad this teacher was with kids but of course nothing has ever been done about it. Yeah, i know… Why work with children then!
Funny, when we go to job interviews, the hiring boss asks us so many questions, and will take time to see if one is a good fit for the company, so many of us parents forget sometime we need to do same thing for our baby sitters. You have to know who you are leaving your child with, get references and have them checked out, if you have any doubt whatsoever, find someone else. They will be caring for your CHILD, you worked so hard, went through so much, to finally hold that child in your arms- I won’t take any chances with just leaving them with just anyone.
So here’s to taking care of our children and their sitters.
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