Why is daycare SO expensive?! They are wanting $130 a week at almost every place I call for my 4yr old!
I have tried to get on a sliding scale but they have a waiting list!
Thats very true-they don't make very good money at all, but my mom truly loves her job, and treats those children as her own! You really get attatched to the kids so quickly, and soon its not even really about the money, she does it cuz she really loves it.Originally Posted by Vibiana
I hope you're not going to get upset with me, but turn this situation around. People who provide daycare, especially employees of child care centers, make LOUSY money with LOUSY benefits. I have worked in day care over the years and have found it frustrating, tedious work which was poorly compensated and rarely appreciated. If day care employees were paid a decent wage, NOBODY would be able to afford day care.
If it is that much of an expense for you, you might want to reconsider going back to work and take care of your child yourself. Nobody will do as well for money what you will do for love.
That is horrible that the daycare you took your son to was like that, I get so frusterated when I hear about daycare centers/homes like that who don't take proper care of the children.Originally Posted by DixieDarlin256
OK I understand what you're saying about taking care of them myself... BUT who is going to pay my bills in the mean time? The state? Not likely... I refuse to be a statistic and have people degrade me because I would have to have state/goverment assistance. I get aggravated myself at people who are perfectly capabale of working but refuse to do so. I just dont understand why that they make it SO difficult to FIND a daycare WORTH paying that much for. I had my youngest in a daycare I paid $150/week at and they were the worst I have ever seen. It was great at first and to the bare eye, but withen 2 weeks my son got VERY sick because he wasn't being changed or fed properly... That was my point of my vent... sorry to confuse anyone
And it takes 2 people now days to support a house hold anymore...
Can you enroll him in headstart? Here in the panhandle they also start preschool in the public school at no charge to parents either. That is suppose to be state wide across Florida.Originally Posted by DixieDarlin256
Why is daycare SO expensive?! They are wanting $130 a week at almost every place I call for my 4yr old!I have tried to get on a sliding scale but they have a waiting list!
I don't know what you do for a living, but a friend of mine recently had a baby. As a single mom, she HAS to work. That meant leaving her newborn at daycare. She complained about some of the things she wasn't happy with there and they asked her if she could do better. She was hired and now gets to be with her baby while she is working!Originally Posted by DixieDarlin256
OK I understand what you're saying about taking care of them myself... BUT who is going to pay my bills in the mean time? The state? Not likely... I refuse to be a statistic and have people degrade me because I would have to have state/goverment assistance. I get aggravated myself at people who are perfectly capabale of working but refuse to do so. I just dont understand why that they make it SO difficult to FIND a daycare WORTH paying that much for. I had my youngest in a daycare I paid $150/week at and they were the worst I have ever seen. It was great at first and to the bare eye, but withen 2 weeks my son got VERY sick because he wasn't being changed or fed properly... That was my point of my vent... sorry to confuse anyone
And it takes 2 people now days to support a house hold anymore...
Umm... wouldn't that be just a little bit illegal? Be careful with this type of thing. I am currently paying the IRS every month from back taxes from my EX-HUSBAND working under the table.Originally Posted by Vibiana
The other one kept everybody's kids and collected welfare, with under-the-table grocery and expense help from the working moms.
Sometimes it's just not possible without severely cramping* the lifestyle, especially if the partner who would be working doesn't make all that much. (Of course I don't know your income, DixieDarlin, I'm just saying.) Sure, a lot of people could do it if they put their minds to it and decided to just reconfigure their budget. But not everyone.Originally Posted by Vibiana
Dixie, I certainly am not intending to degrade you. I just can't understand why, if you don't trust anyone else to care for your child, you don't refigure your budget and find a way to stay home with your kids.