Would you leave your kid with strangers? Totally.
I mean, what choice do you have? I am so thankful for the year of maternity leave, but the search for day care (which I should have started the moment I found out I was pregnant, apparently) is quite frustrating.
There's the whole problem of cost (ok, suck it up I guess), but then also the problem of location (close to home or close to work? my work or Regan's work?), and the problem of trying to find a place that is willing to take a baby with cloth diapers and a mom who will be home in the summers and therefore won't require 12-month day care. hmmm...
Other than that I don't really care. I mean, obviously I want a non-psycho, safe person to care for Emmett, but I mean most people who advertise are ECE or teachers, or trained somehow. They have their own kids, and have been doing this for years and years. They provide references, organic cuisine, daily reports (when do they find the time?), and literacy and numeracy training. Jeez. We don't do that at provincially funded schools.
Quality care definitely is out there, it's just finding someone willing to sign up your kid (like the lady who lives across the street from us *fingers crossed*) before the first day back at work arrives and you've got a baby in your briefcase.
I mean, what choice do you have? I am so thankful for the year of maternity leave, but the search for day care (which I should have started the moment I found out I was pregnant, apparently) is quite frustrating.
There's the whole problem of cost (ok, suck it up I guess), but then also the problem of location (close to home or close to work? my work or Regan's work?), and the problem of trying to find a place that is willing to take a baby with cloth diapers and a mom who will be home in the summers and therefore won't require 12-month day care. hmmm...
Other than that I don't really care. I mean, obviously I want a non-psycho, safe person to care for Emmett, but I mean most people who advertise are ECE or teachers, or trained somehow. They have their own kids, and have been doing this for years and years. They provide references, organic cuisine, daily reports (when do they find the time?), and literacy and numeracy training. Jeez. We don't do that at provincially funded schools.
Quality care definitely is out there, it's just finding someone willing to sign up your kid (like the lady who lives across the street from us *fingers crossed*) before the first day back at work arrives and you've got a baby in your briefcase.