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When I was younger, before I had children of my own, I was a sitter. Both the parents of the children that I watched were architects. They had the bucks. Everyone was on a rigid schedule. I saw this as being a good thing and I went along with the rules, but I also saw it as a very stress-filled, anxiety ridden household.
Heaven forbid if one of the children were sick. It just threw the whole schedule off. The mom was really a control freak and if the baby had a cold she just knew it was going to end up being pneumonia, then the older child would get sick, and then there was the Dr's appointments that had to be made and kept, the medicine that had to be given on time, measured out to the very gram and so on. She was a trip!
Calm was not a word in her vocabulary. She stressed to the max. Now, her hubby was more of a laid back person. He would quietly deal with the matter, steer everyone in the right direction, leave very simple instructions for me, grab his wife and put her in the car and off to work they would go. Thank god for him...lol
Looking at this from the other side of the coin, after I had kids, I knew that there was no way I could afford daycare and I knew that a schedule was important. Jean, (the stressed out Mom) was my example of what I did not want to be like! I stayed home for 3 months before I went back to work. I did have family that took care of my daughter, so finances was not too much of a issue.
My baby would get sick and that was because germs were a part of life. With Jean, she would do background checks on the germs...lol She always felt her world was coming apart because a germ had caused such havoc. If she'd had her way, everyone would have worn face masks.
In a nutshell, staying at home vs. daycare has its pros and cons. Is your child any safer in a group setting? Would they catch more colds, flus and so forth, than they would at home? Are you saving anymore money? What is your child losing or gaining by being in daycare or at home? All these questions are things that only you know the answer to. It can be simple as you want it to be or it can be something to stress over.
DCMerkle
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