Re: Anyone else Anti- Day Care? Due to costs
I think it's fair to say that if a child spends the majority of his/her time in daycare, then daycare is doing quite a bit of the raising when it comes to raising a child. I don't understand parents who want to leave their children with others from infancy all day, five days a week. There are people who need to financially, but I simply can't relate or understand at all those who have a choice and make the choice to go the full-time daycare route. I'm not saying that with judgement; I truly cannot nderstand it as it goes so counter to my own thoughts on parenthood and my drives as a mother to be there with my child and be there for my child, day in and day out.
Different strokes for different folks, of course.
Having my child raised primarily by me and her father was an important choice for our family. It meant letting go of my $40K + salary that included medical benefits, so in that sense, it was costlier for us to NOT use daycare.
Cost wasn't the factor in our decision.
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