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Eats, sleeps, poops, plays with toys, and he is trying to work on crawling.
:shrug: He is six-months old. . . what more can he do?
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Eats, sleeps, poops, plays with toys, and he is trying to work on crawling.
:shrug: He is six-months old. . . what more can he do?
sockgirl77
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SoMD_Fun_Guy
Do you like apples?
He is doing well. I still get anxiety when i drop him off in the morning.
This morning I had a full-blown anxiety attack when I got in the car.
... and when I got into work, I realized I forgot his noonie.
I've heard of and had a nooner before
but WTH is a noonie?
sockgirl77
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I've heard of and had a nooner before
but WTH is a noonie?
His binkie.
sockgirl77
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I posted that on my FB a week ago. I wish they would have had that when mine used pacifiers.
SoMD_Fun_Guy
Do you like apples?
Ok, so it's a pacifier. Never heard of Noonie or Binkie before. Passie yes, but not the others. Just another name of a substitute for mom's nipple to keep 'em quiet.
Us guys will keep quiet for you too, we just don't fall for the substitutes anymore...
itsbob
I bowl overhand
State regulations make it hard to make a profit, though Home Based daycare should be significantly cheaper as they aren't burdened with all of the overhead a DayCare Center has.. like Rent/Mortgage, payroll, lights, heat.. insurance.. etc.. etc..
Add to that the amount of kids a single person is allowed to watch, and the amount of infants one provider can watch..
Profit margin in a daycare is pretty slim, and the amount of ever-changing regulations are impossible to keep up with. (why you don't see Wal-Mart DayCare).. It's one of the few businesses big corporations want nothing to do with.
I don't know the real numbers, but I think I remember on the news 8 kids per provider, or 4 or infants? Then all of your before and after school kids take away from the Daycares total number and they don't make ANY money on the before and after daycare kids, or I guess you could say they LOSE a lot of money for every before and after school kid.. Parents want to pay 1/2 or less for before and after care, but everyone of them takes 100% of a full times slot and funds..
Not a business I'd want to get into, but thank god for those that do.
sockgirl77
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7 kids total and no more than 2 infants. Those numbers also include the provider's own children.
Those were the numbers a few years ago.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Ove 24 years experience being a parent, and over generations have had, and still have, kids in daycare.
Having lived through elementary school and kindergarten and pre-k with 5 kids I can tell you without a doubt, that the "amoral monsters"; the kids with no social skills, and the kids with no manners, almost all come from SAHM families.
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mitzi
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What's a SAHM family?
itsbob
I bowl overhand
No I'm not..
I didn't say all SAHM kids were hellions and had no sense..
I said the majority of kids that had no sense, no manners, and no social skills were SAHM kids..
I'd like anyone to prove me wrong.
somdfunguy
not impressed
I have sense, manners, and excelled at social studies so I will have to disagree.
Hank
my war
itsbob
I bowl overhand
You are one person..
Go to the first day of class at a Pre-K or a Kindergarten and watch the kids..
The majority of the kids that act out, talk incessantly, don't know how to act or wait their turn or want 100% of the teachers undivided attention.. guess what group the majority of them belong in.
A lot of us have great parents that if they stayed at home would have brought us up right, MOST SAHM parents aren't there for that reason.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
WTF are you talking about??
Radiant1
Soul Probe
Ok, I'll concede that "almost all" is not a gross generalization but it does remain a broad generalization, heh.
Your experience is no proof, as my experience is different. I've put four kids through the same as you, and it seems to me that unruly kids are unruly kids whether they have SAHM parents or Daycare. (In fact, I know some kids who have been kicked out of a particular daycare for being little "monsters"). Of course, that's only the one's with whom I know their home or daycare situation. I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to assume all children's situation. No doubt you know everything about every kid who attended class with your children, right? Daycare is no substitute for parenting. Kids learn core behavior from their parent/s, whether their parent stays at home or works away from home.
Could you please clarify? For what reason do you think "most" SAHM parents stay at home?
withrespect
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My happy happy boy at daycare
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