Kids With Long Days Away From Parents

[Unregistered]

Seems like we all have the same type of experiences. I work in a center and those kids that are there from to close I feel so bad for. Thanks for your input on this. I was beginning to think I was the only one who felt it was a long day for those kids.

I am thinking of possibly doing my own daycare and becoming liscenced. I would definitely do contracted hours and I would not take SA. I have learned so much from this board.

[JenNJ]

My longest child is ere 9 hours and 15 minutes. That is the longest I would take a child. Any more than that an they aren't spending enough time with family and behavior issues will arise.

[Blackcat31]

My longest child is ere 9 hours and 15 minutes. That is the longest I would take a child. Any more than that an they aren't spending enough time with family and behavior issues will arise.

I find the exact opposite to be true. The ones I have who are here for 4-5 days a week more than 8 hours a day are so used to my rules it is second nature to them. The kids who are here 3 days or less a week test me to no end because I assume they do things differently at home.

[momma2girls]

I took my daycare hrs. out of my contract yrs. ago. If you have them in your contract, some, I repeat some of the parents will use your extent every single day. I placed in I provide daycare for your work and commute times only! I have a 9 hr. day, 5 days a week and that is long enough for me!! Technically that is already 5 hrs. OT each week!! !!

[momma2girls]

My longest child is ere 9 hours and 15 minutes. That is the longest I would take a child. Any more than that an they aren't spending enough time with family and behavior issues will arise.

I totally agree!!

[E Daycare]

Id love to charge by the hour. Maybe then thatll get a parents butt in gear thinking that theyd have to pay 50$ a day if the kid was here 10hrs at a rate of $5.00/hr. Instead I charge $35.00 a day and the kids are usually here 10hrs coming to $3.50/hr. Ya think that would light a fire under their rears?

I say Id love to charge by the hour but then Id be broke as parents are only looking for the "cheaper is better" route when it comes to the care of their kids.

[Liliya]

One of my dck mom :" I do not have to work this week,but I did not know what to do,bring them later? keep them home? pick them up earlier?:confused:

[QualiTcare]

I have one family whose Dad gets off work at lunch time (PT work), but he is going to night school, and uses the afternoons to study. I don't know when he sees his son. This boy is here from 8-5, but he is my longest. Most of my dck's are here from 8:30 or 9 until 4 or 4:30. There has been a few times when kids didn't get picked up until 5:30, but it doesn't happen often.

my daughter had long days in daycare when i was working and going to school. i even said to the director one time, "is it even legal how long she's here?" and she assured me it was. i worked at the daycare some of the time throughout school so that helped, but it was still a sacrifice. the way i saw it was i could either have her in daycare while i went to college so by the time she was old enough to know what was going on, i could have a "good job" and have plenty of time (and money) for her - OR i could put school off and work a mediocre job her entire life, and probably not be home when she got home from school, etc. i'm glad i chose daycare while i got an education. she's in 1st grade now, doesn't remember the long days at daycare when she was a baby, and i have all the time in the world to spend with her. i MAY even be able to homeschool within the next year or so. that's something i would've never, ever considered as an option before, and would've been out of the realm of possibility if it weren't for those long days at daycare that she doesn't remember.

[Cat Herder]

the way i saw it was i could either have her in daycare while i went to college so by the time she was old enough to know what was going on, i could have a "good job" and have plenty of time (and money) for her - OR i could put school off and work a mediocre job her entire life, .

I thought the same thing, then my son died of sids in daycare. I don't think that anymore.

[Live and Learn]

I thought the same thing, then my son died of sids in daycare. I don't think that anymore.

Cat Herder...I am so sorry.
That is awful.

[misol]

I thought the same thing, then my son died of sids in daycare. I don't think that anymore.

Catherder. This is a terrible tragedy and I am so sorry that you had to go through this.

[QualiTcare]

I thought the same thing, then my son died of sids in daycare. I don't think that anymore.

that's horrible and i'm sorry for your loss.

however, kids die from SIDS at home all the time, and i don't think asking "what if they were to die" as an infant is a reason for to put on the "con list" when making a decision. either way, my daughter would've had to go to daycare - staying home wasn't an option. the days just would've been shorter had i only worked and NOT gone to school, but as i said - i'd have to work a mediocre job for years and years and not be as stable when she was 18 as i already am today.

[Blackcat31]

that's horrible and i'm sorry for your loss.

however, kids die from SIDS at home all the time, and i don't think asking "what if they were to die" as an infant is a reason for to put on the "con list" when making a decision. either way, my daughter would've had to go to daycare - staying home wasn't an option. the days just would've been shorter had i only worked and NOT gone to school, but as i said - i'd have to work a mediocre job for years and years and not be as stable when she was 18 as i already am today.

I'm sure kids die equally in home and at daycare of SIDS but I'm getting the message from catherder that it is the loss of the time she could have had with him that she is referring to. I think we all bank on having enough time later rather than realizing that time should be spent today and NEVER banked until later. If I had been in catherders position, I would have added possible loss of limited time to my "con list" IMMEDIATELY when faced with that decision again.

So sorry for your loss catherder. That is one situation NO parent should ever have to deal with.

[nannyde]

I'm sure kids die equally in home and at daycare

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/05/48hours/murder/main557156.shtml

In a study of 1,916 SIDS cases in 11 states, researchers found that about 20 percent, 391 deaths, occurred in daycare settings.

Sixty percent of the daycare deaths occurred in home daycare, which tend to be unlicensed and run by older women with less access to pediatricians and others who promote SIDS risk reduction efforts, said Dr. Rachel Moon, the lead author. She is a pediatrician at Children's National Medical Center in Washington.

Her data on SIDS deaths from January 1995 to June 1997 appear in the August issue of Pediatrics, published Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Especially disturbing, Moon said, was the finding that of children placed on their stomachs by caretakers, more than half were usually put to sleep on their backs by their parents.

Previous research has shown that compared with babies who always sleep on their backs, back sleepers switched to their stomachs are 20 times more likely to die of SIDS and habitual stomach sleepers are about five times more likely, Moon said.

Moon and others theorize that habitual back-sleepers are more vulnerable because they don't develop upper body strength as early as stomach sleepers, who have to lift their heads or arms to see what's around them.

[nannyde]

I thought the same thing, then my son died of sids in daycare. I don't think that anymore.

Cathearder can you tell me what the age of the baby, the setting (home or center), and if they did back to sleep?