slworld
11-05-2009, 07:57 PM
...could you please share your experiences with respect to:
1) How many kids are there?
2) How is the setup. Does he/she provide all equipment (cribs, highchairs etc) & food?
3) How does his/her family life tie into her work (if it does). I mean like the care of her kids, their doc appts etc.
4) Is there a particular reason you chose this kind of care?
5) Any other comments?
I will start:
1) DS is 16months old and has been going to a single provider daycare for about 4months. There are 2 other full-time kids & 1 kindergartener who comes in after school. DS is usually there for about 9hours a day.
2) We provide all the food for DS and the playpen to nap in.
3) She has 2 school aged girls who are very good with the kids and all the kids really like them. As far as appts etc, until last week there were only 2 kids in the am, so if she had to schedule an appt she would just take them along (has car seats & stroller). She does let us know beforehand. Her kids have activities in the evening 2 days a week, so those days if your kid is not picked up by the time they leave, she takes them along & you pick them up from wherever they are. She does send out the schedule beforehand. This is probably the only inconvenience but then maybe it is not so different from where most daycares charge a late fee if you don't pick up your kids on time.
4) Well we were hoping less kids means less chances of getting sick.
Please no flames and please don't judge. Just looking to see how it works for others in this kind of situation.
Thanks for sharing.
1) How many kids are there?
2) How is the setup. Does he/she provide all equipment (cribs, highchairs etc) & food?
3) How does his/her family life tie into her work (if it does). I mean like the care of her kids, their doc appts etc.
4) Is there a particular reason you chose this kind of care?
5) Any other comments?
I will start:
1) DS is 16months old and has been going to a single provider daycare for about 4months. There are 2 other full-time kids & 1 kindergartener who comes in after school. DS is usually there for about 9hours a day.
2) We provide all the food for DS and the playpen to nap in.
3) She has 2 school aged girls who are very good with the kids and all the kids really like them. As far as appts etc, until last week there were only 2 kids in the am, so if she had to schedule an appt she would just take them along (has car seats & stroller). She does let us know beforehand. Her kids have activities in the evening 2 days a week, so those days if your kid is not picked up by the time they leave, she takes them along & you pick them up from wherever they are. She does send out the schedule beforehand. This is probably the only inconvenience but then maybe it is not so different from where most daycares charge a late fee if you don't pick up your kids on time.
4) Well we were hoping less kids means less chances of getting sick.
Please no flames and please don't judge. Just looking to see how it works for others in this kind of situation.
Thanks for sharing.