CL Add-Wow!

[Country Kids]

Looking for childcare provider or babysitter in the ****** area. My child is 11 months old and is very active, she doesn't really nap during the day.So you must have alot of energy to keep up with her. You would have to be patient with her till she gets use to you as she hasn't really been watched by anyone but her myself and her grandma. . I prefer that you are certified. If your not certified I will do a background check, interview and you must have refrences. I go to college full time so my schedule that I need childcare kind of speratic. You would have to be available Monday's 5pm to 6:45 pm/ Tuesday 6:30 am to 12:20 pm- 5:00pm to 6:45 pm/ Wednesdays 6:30am to 8am- 5pm to 6:45 pm/ Thursday 7:30 am to 9:30 am- 5:00pm to 6:45 pm. If you think you would be a good fit give me a call at *******.


Eleven months old and doesn't nap? After these last two weeks I think its in the water! Sounds like she definetly needs routine, especially for this age.

So wondering what she is willing to pay for such a schedule!

[emmajo]

What bothers me about this ad is the number of spelling and grammatical errors by someone who is going to college full time. Sad.

[daycare]

split schedule? no naps??

OHHH pick me pick me pick me...NOT!

that is the strangest schedule ever. I hope she rides a bike to school with the cost of gas being so high.....

[Kaddidle Care]

She needs to see if the College she goes to offers a childcare program. Some do - not sure if it's only for workers or not.

Crazy schedule is right!

[nannyde]

She's got a tall hill to climb which is most likely why she's advertising on Craigslist.

Very crazy schedule where the provider is working small blocks of time and having kid doing two arrivals and two departures with long hour breaks in between.

A nearly one year old who has only been with Mom and Gma

Why is Gma giving up helping NOW?

A baby that doesn't nap and needs active adult who has patience

Must have certifications, references, and background check.

The only people willing to do this are going to be people who are desperate for day care kids. They are going to want to nap that kid the majority of the time she is with them.

Not going to work but the Mom will find that soon enough. The CL ad is a "hail mary" pass but the parent must learn.

The biggest red flag is the no naps. This means they most likely have a rage baby.

[cheerfuldom]

the biggest red flags are no naps AND Grandma doesn't want to do it anymore. I have transitioned several babies into care that were previously non-nappers (I am taking kids under 1 year old!) and it is a scary few weeks until you get them on schedule. There is NO schedule here. I bet mom wants to pay for those hours but baby will be spending more and more time there for free as pickups get early and dropoffs get later. Right now, non-napping is Grandma's problem but eventually it will be mom's problem.

[nannyde]

the biggest red flags are no naps AND Grandma doesn't want to do it anymore. I have transitioned several babies into care that were previously non-nappers (I am taking kids under 1 year old!) and it is a scary few weeks until you get them on schedule. There is NO schedule here. I bet mom wants to pay for those hours but baby will be spending more and more time there for free as pickups get early and dropoffs get later. Right now, non-napping is Grandma's problem but eventually it will be mom's problem.

When I first started doing child care in the nineties it was really common to get babies at nine months or so who had been at Grandmas. The gma's were willing to do for free until the kid got mobile. As soon as it became hard they surrendered.

Taking that kid who had been with Gma was different than a kid who had been home with Mom or in another day care. I figured out that there's no one on the planet who wants you to be happier than your granny. The post granny gigs were a LOT of work on the front end getting the kid to get used to not having an adult who would do ANYTHING to keep them from being unhappy.

For me it was taking a kid who had been with gma was the WORST... mom the second... auntie the third.... and then another day care. I always talked to the Moms and told them that detoxing off of gma care is most likely going to cause a whole lot of crying going on here. My gig is about as opposite of gma care as you could get.

But then society changed... the Gmas who were willing to keep their grandkids were surrendering way earlier than nine months. I started seeing these kids come in at four and five months... then over time I quit getting any kids that came in from Grannys house. I think I have had one in the last ten years.

Now the Gmas have their own gig. There are some who DO child care and ones who have custody of other grandkids... but I think the deal of being with Gma for free has lessened quite a bit across our nation. Possibly with the crappy economy we will see a rise back to that being more common. Maybe multi generational housing because of the bad economy will increase it.

Babies and toddlers are becoming SO much harder to take care of now that it really takes a dedicated helpful gma to step in for free or near free. The gmas who are in their late thirties and early forties have had a fourth or a third of their life with access to cell phones and the internet. They have their own gig for entertainment and it's not so common to want to forgoe those interests and do the HARD work of taking care of someone else's kids full time.

The other HUGE factor that changed this was the free child care to single moms. If a parent has a choice between having their day care free with someone they can be the boss of or having their kid at gmas where gma has her own mind and life experience with the daughter... often the daughter will go for the free. The gmas can get paid but in most states that's a low amount of money unless they register or get licensed. There's been such a huge amount of scamming with state paid relative care that some states are nixing it or markedly reducing it.

This ad is a perfect example of how crazy hard it is to care for babies and toddlers now. The whole idea that the ADULT must be the one to adapt to the babys need to stay up all the time is something you wouldn't have seen ten or more years ago... I wouldn't have anyway. We used to understand that infants needed a lot of sleep and at this age would need two solid long naps and a eleven/twelve hour night.

Now that notion that a baby needs sleep to grow properly is slowly fading out of our mind set... now these babies can defy nature because THEY are the special ones who don't need what every generation of infants from the begining of time have needed.

Soon enough we will see the full affect of "those who do not need sleep" and "those who got to choose". The amount of physical and mental illness in our youth is going to SKYROCKET in the next decade. Saying the words that "my baby doesn't really nap" doesn't change the cold hard FACT that this baby NEEDS sleep during the day time. It CAN'T grow properly without it. This Mom doesn't get a pass... she doesn't have special... she's just doing it wrong and trying to find someone to do it wrong with her.