
Originally Posted by
Joplin
Well I don't have kids but was put in daycare (from 5am-7pm They took me to school when I was school aged) every day but the weekends from when I was born until I was too old to be there any more at 10.
It was fine. Was there days I didn't want to go, sure because my friends didn't happen to be there. Where there days when other kids hurt me, which would not have happened if I wasn't at day care, of coarse. I was even moved to another day care after the management went to crap.
Over all it was fun though. Getting to play house (well more like Spice Girls) with the other kids, talent shows, field trips, tag, painting, making that putty stuff, stealing other kids brownies, playing on the computer, watching power rangers, taking naps, feeding fish, having water gun days, hitting boys in the balls, it was all tons of fun (I was an only child too so the interaction with other children was needed).
I went to a big chain daycare so I didn't get any individualized attention like kids do at the smaller ones. I will put my child in day care, it builds character. You probably need a night watcher, in which case the kid is going to be asleep a lot anyways, but as long as they have fun stuff to do when awake don't worry so much about them. She'll have fun.
This is just a random fact but:
When you first leave her, after she starts to realize that she's actually going to get left she'll grab on to your leg and cry her little brains out. It's all a ploy though, so don't fall for it. She's trying to make you feel bad. You'll finally walk out the door and she'll muster up the saddest most "mommy doesn't love me face" she can and when you see it you'll walk back in that door and hug her again. Then you try to leave and she'll scream again. Rinse and repeat a million times un till the parents late for work. All the other kids will sit and stare and wait for you to FINALLY leave so they can tell the crying kid (who ALWAYS stops the second you actually leave) that they look like a loser, and that they lose play dough privileges for 5 minutes because they gave everyone headaches. The previously crying kid will say okay and go get a snack come back and start playing and not think about you again until a "my dad/mom is better that your dad/mom!" argument breaks out.
All that said just to warn you. Don't be fooled. That happened 30 times a day every god damn day when I was in day care. And it goes down EXACTLY like that. I wish more parents knew just to walk away or you make it worse for EVERYONE. I remember telling a parent when I was like 5 to "GO TO WORK and she'll stop crying!!!!" ugh...okay, end rant!
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