Cost of Day Care

Post by **Tossica** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:47 pm

I was a ruffian

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:50 pm

With the exception of skateboarding, I was pretty much a "saint".

We lost power in our little 4 block radius for about an hour. I shit you not in 5 minutes those niglets tried breaking into a corner store and were hanging from street signs trying to tear them off.

I am 100% serious.

Haylo · Post by **Haylo** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:54 pm

From '99-2002 when I was in school and working in a daycare, the cost for the infant rooms which each had 6 kids went from $200-250 a week so I imagine that now it's quite a bit more. Granted this was a really nice corporate daycare, but even crappy ones cost a lot. When my sister was looking into daycare for her twins, in our area for their age group it was going to cost $275 a week per kid, and they are not even infants. Needless to say she stays home with them and will continue to do so I guess until they go into pre-school.

It's crazy because really both parents need to work but if they do, most times they are having to do crazy hours or work two jobs just to pay what amounts to a house note for daycare. More and more of my coworkers resigned this year as well because after they had their babies it just made more sense for them to stay home rather than pay the daycare costs, and these are all professional women making nice salaries. I don't know what the solution is but these people are making a killing. They only pay their workers around $7 a hour and there are not that many daycare activities in the world to justify high costs like that.

Post by **Martrae** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:23 am

Daycare was the reason I started staying home with the kids in the first place. Trying to find a place that will even take a child in diapers is a nightmare and they charge twice as much. We had 2 kids at a time in diapers for three years in a row plus a preschooler. No way any salary I earned would pay for that daycare bill.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:32 am

Martrae wrote:Daycare was the reason I started staying home with the kids in the first place. Trying to find a place that will even take a child in diapers is a nightmare and they charge twice as much. We had 2 kids at a time in diapers for three years in a row plus a preschooler. No way any salary I earned would pay for that daycare bill.

And now it's just cuz TV is so much more appealing than a real job.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:34 am

Martrae wrote:Daycare was the reason I started staying home with the kids in the first place. Trying to find a place that will even take a child in diapers is a nightmare and they charge twice as much. We had 2 kids at a time in diapers for three years in a row plus a preschooler. No way any salary I earned would pay for that daycare bill.

If you couldn't afford it maybe you shoulda closed your crusty legs.

Post by **Martrae** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:28 pm

Quit dreaming about my crusty legs, Tacks! It's getting creepy...

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:31 pm

keep trying

Gargamellow · Post by **Gargamellow** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:48 pm

Cecelia at school told me that she had to pay an arm and a leg for daycare. She says that it was worth it in the end because of the job experience that she received during that time. She is an executive assistant at Mediacom now and also works in campaign management for the democrats.