What Is The Longest You Have Had A Family?

[Wubby]

Just curious, most of my kids age out of care. My longest family is 14 yrs (3 kids, 14, 5, 15 mos.). Next longest is 10 yrs ( 3 kids, 10, 8,4) then 8 yrs (10 yr old came in at 2 yrs).

[Blackcat31]

I do not accept SA kids anymore and only accept infants of currently enrolled families so once a child reaches Kindergarten age, they leave.

However, the longest I have had one family (multiple children) is 16 years.
The mom seemed to have a new baby every time the youngest one reached pre-k age. I currently have the family's 4th child.

The longest I ever had one child in care was 13 years. I started a little girl at 6 weeks. Had her until I was no longer legally allowed to have her.

[mema]

I have only been in business 5 years, but I did have 1 family for just over 4 of those.

[Kimskiddos]

My longest is 8 years, an 8yo (no longer in my care, don't do school age) and 2yo. the 2yo will likely be here until kinder in another 3 years.

My next is a current family 6 years with likely 5 more to go, oldest is now 7yo, next is 3.5 and a baby to be born in May.

Most of my families have only had 1 or 2 children and when they age out they are gone. Have had plenty of families for 5 to 8 years just depending on the age separation.

[LoraJenkins]

I have had one family for the past 9 years. First DCB now 9, and sister now 4.

[originalkat]

I do not take school agers either so the longest I have is 5 years (they only have 1 child).

[nannyde]

12 years

[Sugar Magnolia]

7 years for two famines.......both sets are siblings.

[sharlan]

21 years

I got the older brother at 2 weeks, younger sister at 3 days. I kept the kids until they got their driver's licenses @ 17. Dad would drop her off on his way to work and I would take her to school. I would pick her up from school and Dad would pick her up on his way home from work.

[Michelle]

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[blandino]

It's hard to say. We only take them from 0-4, but we do have a few families that have had one child here all 4 years, and then the next child here the following 4 years, so I would say 8 years is my best answer.

[sharlan]

double post

[itlw8]

I think 13 years I had big sis as a baby and she is 13 now. then brother and now little sis who is 4 so it will be 14 years when I lose her next year for school. I will miss that family.

I did have a family that led to the other sisters kids and then the neighbors. a good share of my childcare was related for a while but not to me.

[Starburst]

The lady I used to work for had 1 family for a little over 14 years. The they had 2 children and the oldest was like a second daughter to her (the provider). At the age of 14 the provider legally could not claim her as a 'daycare child' anymore, but did hire her as a "junior helper" and she would frequently visit/volunteer after school (though she got a little less reliable and wasn't as interested in hanging out in the daycare as much when she started high school) and eventually the son (who was coddled alot and also missing alot of school at the time) didn't go anymore either; which was fine because the parents {a doctor with her own practice and a mailman} owed alot in daycare tuition, yet the daughter would tell the provider that the mom has a bunch of unopened boxes from HSN piled in the living room and regularly orders more things. The only reason the provider didn't terminate is because she didn't want to lose DCG.

She has also had the children of her former daycare children enrolled and families that had large extended families (at one point more than 1/2 of the daycare children where sibs/cousin's from the same family {with an average of 2 children per immediate family}).

[MizzCheryl]

15 years and I still have them.