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Working in a Daycare vs. Sending your Kids to a Daycare
Before I had kids I used to work in a daycare. At various times I worked in all the rooms, from infants up to kindergarten.
My original plan when I got pregnant was to send my kid there, but it turned out there wasn’t room for him when I would’ve been needing to return to work. So instead I became a stay at home mom.
A few years later I had my second kid and got divorced.
A year after that I heard that the childcare center I used to work at was looking for more children to join the toddler classroom, the age that the my youngest was. Both my kids are vaccinated against Covid by this point, so I feel comfortable with it. My oldest is already enrolled in a different preschool and now I enroll my youngest in my old center so I can take bookkeeping classes faster, rather than just trying to get homework done when he’s sleeping.
I was lucky to be able to send him to a place where I knew so many people. I had worked with someone in every classroom and knew a lot of the higher-ups as well.
A few friends commented that it must be hard trusting your kids with other people, but I truly was unconcerned sending him there. These were the people who taught me how to care for children in the first place!
