dayhomes

[katysmuma]

omg coupon crazy if you read the post im just getting a feel for who has a dayhome and how much they charge. just stop posting you are not making yourself look good!!!!! i met you in the middle of the mall for a half an hour NO i would not trust you with my kids!!!!!!!!!!!! I never said i did not like you but you are acting like you are still in high school....just stop

[couponcrazy86]

I am not making my self look bad at all, i simply made a point about what you wrote. and two i wasnt asking you to just drop your kids off and i would watch them with out you meeting me more and getting to know me & my family more. i would want to meet more so that everyone would be comfortable with it. - but good luck finding someone to help you as it is tough - and some are expensive. if you have any troubles let me know my sister in law runs a day home on this side of the city-

[Melatomica]

My son attends a licensed dayhome parttime and the rate is $400 for 3 days a week, 6 hrs a day.
The benefit of licensed dayhomes are they can provide subsidy if you qualify through the government
and they are monitored and must follow guidelines for number of children and ages.

He previously went to a dayhome DH's coworker's wife ran. She would sometimes have more than the allowed number of children (even unlicensed have a limit, but they are not monitored). My son was also coming home with his baby food unopened (just fed milk all day) and the lady's youngest daughter had started biting my baby on a weekly basis and never told us. It's pretty horrifying to change your baby and find a child-sized bite bruise.

[katysmuma]

My son attends a licensed dayhome parttime and the rate is $400 for 3 days a week, 6 hrs a day.
The benefit of licensed dayhomes are they can provide subsidy if you qualify through the government
and they are monitored and must follow guidelines for number of children and ages.

He previously went to a dayhome DH's coworker's wife ran. She would sometimes have more than the allowed number of children (even unlicensed have a limit, but they are not monitored). My son was also coming home with his baby food unopened (just fed milk all day) and the lady's youngest daughter had started biting my baby on a weekly basis and never told us. It's pretty horrifying to change your baby and find a child-sized bite bruise.

Yes this is what I am talking about and why i wont just let ANYONE watch my kids!!! I have lost half of my family already and my kids are even more precious to me then ever so maybe i am being uptight to some but to me you can never be to careful!!!!!!!

[Alevry78]

My recommendation: Go to an Agency. They find people for you. PLUS you will have the added comfort of knowing that they are checked on a regular basis and have to pass screening tests, random checks, etc.

When I was trying to return to work, I contacted an agency...unfortunately there was no one in my area willing to transport to school. I remember when I had no kids and I thought...wow...those stay home moms got it MADE. Now, I see the light. Many are just staying home because they really have to because it simply doesnt make economical sense to work and pay for kids in dayhome (particularly after you have more than 1 child).

BTW- good thread. Some info. Some drama. My hickory sticks and I are enjoying it!

[katysmuma]

My recommendation: Go to an Agency. They find people for you. PLUS you will have the added comfort of knowing that they are checked on a regular basis and have to pass screening tests, random checks, etc.

When I was trying to return to work, I contacted an agency...unfortunately there was no one in my area willing to transport to school. I remember when I had no kids and I thought...wow...those stay home moms got it MADE. Now, I see the light. Many are just staying home because they really have to because it simply doesnt make economical sense to work and pay for kids in dayhome (particularly after you have more than 1 child).

BTW- good thread. Some info. Some drama. My hickory sticks and I are enjoying it!

mmmmm hickory sticks rock

[alwaysdaddysgirl]

I was lucky my dayhome provider was a retired registered nurse. But I never found anyone willing to do part-time for less than $50 but it is also Sherwood Park. If anyone knows someone who could look after my 8 yr daughter for a couple hours after school for a couple days a week for Sept and Oct I would be eternally grateful. She goes to Victoria School which makes it hard because kids come from all over the city to go to that school and she is not old enough to take public transit back into Sherwood Park. If your child goes there I will pick her up from your home ( after meetings etc).

[rewogd]

I'm sorry, I feel that I need to make a comment because I feel that this comment makes non licenced dayhomes look bad. Not everyone that is not licenced is like that. I am not licenced and I follow the rules. I know my limit and stick to it... As for the bite size bruse. My one girl went through a biting phase. It has gotten significantly better but almost every day I had to explain to a mom that her child got bit... There was NOTHING I can do about her biting as it happened so fast. The daycare provider should have told you but I mean that stuff happens all the time. It could have and most certainly has happened in a licenced daycare too.

My son attends a licensed dayhome parttime and the rate is $400 for 3 days a week, 6 hrs a day.
The benefit of licensed dayhomes are they can provide subsidy if you qualify through the government
and they are monitored and must follow guidelines for number of children and ages.

He previously went to a dayhome DH's coworker's wife ran. She would sometimes have more than the allowed number of children (even unlicensed have a limit, but they are not monitored). My son was also coming home with his baby food unopened (just fed milk all day) and the lady's youngest daughter had started biting my baby on a weekly basis and never told us. It's pretty horrifying to change your baby and find a child-sized bite bruise.

[Orual]

Well said rewogd, you put two kids together and someone is going to get hit/pinched/bit/shoved eventually.

[Melatomica]

I'm sorry, I feel that I need to make a comment because I feel that this comment makes non licenced dayhomes look bad. Not everyone that is not licenced is like that. I am not licenced and I follow the rules. I know my limit and stick to it... As for the bite size bruse. My one girl went through a biting phase. It has gotten significantly better but almost every day I had to explain to a mom that her child got bit... There was NOTHING I can do about her biting as it happened so fast. The daycare provider should have told you but I mean that stuff happens all the time. It could have and most certainly has happened in a licenced daycare too.

I wasn't trying to make unlicensed dayhomes look bad at all, I was just pointing out some benefits of going to a licensed home.

The problem wasn't that my son was bit and I wasn't told. The problem was that it happened again, and again and again. Bite marks that left welts and bruised. And we were never told when it happened, even though he WOULD have cried his eyes out at such a bite. Over the period of the three months he spent there, he was bitten about 8-10 times and the woman didn't tell us what she was trying to do to keep her daughter from biting him. Any daycare facility has a limit on this behavior from one of its children.

[Kelkens]

With our first, we had him in a licensed day home. At first it was good as she was very good with babies but after he was about a year it was not good.

For one she was unable to enforce limits on her son and as a result they could not go anywhere including the local park. Certainly she had all kinds of toys,etc in the yard but they never got out of that back yard not even for a walk. For another she tried to force him to toilet train without telling us she wanted to try toilet training. She also had an issue with any illness even a minor cold and would refuse to take him but at the same time she would not tell us if she or her son were ill.

After the second we got an in home caregiver and it was the best choice for us. I wanted to determine the standards and expectations not some agency that gets paid for doing so.

[rewogd]

I understand what you're saying and she most certainly should have told you what was going on. She also should have told you how she was trying to prevent it. For that you are 100% correct. My point is that those things happen any where, any time. One kid got bit while I was sitting right there beside them playing. All I could do is pull the little one off and send her to a time out. It happened so fast that I certainly couldn't have prevented it.

I had my boy in a licensed daycare. The woman put the kids into the nap room as soon as they were finished eating and shut the door. My boy was fully potty trained but because he couldn't get out of the room he'd poop in his pants. This woman would take him out of his pants, fold the legs up so the pants were in a ball and put it in a bag for me. I'd get home and surprise she would leave the entire feces in his pants for me to deal with after my shift at work. This fully licensed lady that I paid to take care of my son couldn't even take the time to dump the poop into the toilet. I contacted her boss and told her what she was doing. Her boss did nothing and took her side.

My point is Licensed or not licensed crap happens (no pun intended) You can get an amazing Licensed daycare or you can get a crappy one. But you can also get a great private dayhome and then again you can get a crappy one. Licensed or not the benefits are pretty much equal

I wasn't trying to make unlicensed dayhomes look bad at all, I was just pointing out some benefits of going to a licensed home.

The problem wasn't that my son was bit and I wasn't told. The problem was that it happened again, and again and again. Bite marks that left welts and bruised. And we were never told when it happened, even though he WOULD have cried his eyes out at such a bite. Over the period of the three months he spent there, he was bitten about 8-10 times and the woman didn't tell us what she was trying to do to keep her daughter from biting him. Any daycare facility has a limit on this behavior from one of its children.

[Kelkens]

I agree entirely...as a parent you still have to check things out and deal with things.

The problem is the agency has invested interest in keeping children in these homes and are not very helpful when there is an issue with the day home. Whereas if you screen you are hands on in figuring out what is good for your child.

[Melatomica]

My point is Licensed or not licensed crap happens (no pun intended) You can get an amazing Licensed daycare or you can get a crappy one. But you can also get a great private dayhome and then again you can get a crappy one. Licensed or not the benefits are pretty much equal

Yeah I really wasn't trying to make it about licensed vs unlicensed. Just the bad experience I had happened to be unlicensed. After that lady, my son went to another unlicensed and was fine there, but the lady decided she couldn't handle an infant with the other kids she was watching, so we had to move him again and the next (where he is now) happened to be licensed.

It is nice getting receipts for payments that I can claim on income tax, though

[Pinkflowergirl86]

I'm in the Park (although that doesn't help your after school problem), but I will be starting my dayhome in June for both FT/PT and casual.

I was lucky my dayhome provider was a retired registered nurse. But I never found anyone willing to do part-time for less than $50 but it is also Sherwood Park. If anyone knows someone who could look after my 8 yr daughter for a couple hours after school for a couple days a week for Sept and Oct I would be eternally grateful. She goes to Victoria School which makes it hard because kids come from all over the city to go to that school and she is not old enough to take public transit back into Sherwood Park. If your child goes there I will pick her up from your home ( after meetings etc).