How Much of Your Home Is Used for Daycare?

[CityGarden]

I have a 2 bedroom + office, 1 bath home...

When I first opened dcks had access to living room / dining room/ bathroom and office. I kept the bedrooms and the kitchen off limits to dcks. The office was 100% dedicated to the dcks. We did not use my yard at all but go to the park daily.

[knoxmomof2]

I have a large front living room that is our dedicated daycare space- it's 300 Sq ft. Also, a side room that's the nap room - it's 250 Sq ft. They eat in the front room at a kid sized table and chairs. They do everything except nap in there. Nap is in the side room, which is also where drop off and pick up happens. The only other space daycare kids are allowed in is the bathroom which is adjacent to the front room. The rest of the main floor are my children's bedrooms and the kitchen / dining room. The basement level has our family room, laundry room, bedroom and bathroom as well as the shop. On a rare occasion, I might take a few older, well behaved kids down to watch a movie on our large screen TV, but that's happened about twice in the 3 years since we bought the house.

The kids walk across a tiny corner of the kitchen to go from the nap room to the front room. They aren't even allowed to lurk or wander in my kitchen.

When I first started, we lived in a rental home. Our only living room was my daycare / drop off AND nap room. It was about 250 Sq ft? We ate at the dining room table and did crafts there. No one was allowed to wander there either.

It's odd to me that they didn't think of this stuff when they interviewed, I assume they saw the space?

As far as them not wanting to talk - unless there's an issue you need to discuss you should count yourself lucky! When I was brand new, I had a Mom come and sit for up to an HOUR!!! chatting away. That was before I knew what I was doing and didn't know how to manage other adults.. Lol... Just saying, you could have it much worse 😁

[hwichlaz]

50% of my home 48% of the time, .
and 50% of my home 100% of the time.