No way, No how... (sm)
Posted By: Family FIRST on 2006-02-21
In Reply to: putting 3-year-old in daycare - cnymt
The whole reason I am working from home is so I don't have to let other people spend more time with my child than I do.
I work from 4:30 AM until about 7:30 AM when she gets up. We eat breakfast and get ready for the day. Between 9:00 and 10:00 I work and she plays in the playroom (which is a finished basement, one large room where my desk is), does her "work" at a desk next to mine, goes on Nickjr's website on the kids' computer, etc. After that, we play and then I work when she goes down for nap. We are together when she gets up. She "helps" me do housework by having her own dustcloth and own little vacumn. I don't work again until after the kids are in bed, then my husband and I usually have about an hour each of work to do until we spend time together. If I have to, I spend time with my husband until 10:30 when he goes to bed, then I will work another hour or so. Then I get up again between 4:30 and 6:00 depending on the workload I have waiting for me.
But put my child in day care while I'm at HOME? I don't think so. If my child had to be in daycare anyway, I would go out and get a job making a higher per hour rate than what I can make per line.
There are other solutions than putting your child in daycare. It's a matter of how much you are willing to sacrifice so that other people aren't raising your child.
And yes, that statement causes people to get mad. Oh well. I worked in daycare while I was getting my teaching degree. If your child is spending eight hours a day of her 12 waking hours with someone else, someone else is raising her, like it or not.
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