I live in fla. I have a 1yr old. How much do I charge to watch someone elses infant in there home?

Answer 1

Are you talking about watching an infant for an hour here and there? About twenty bucks an hour.

Are you talking about full=time day care for an infant? Day care, even nanny-style in home day care, is very very harmful to an infant.

Additionally, how could you expect to provide your child what she needs from you when you have to provide the intense one on one care an infant needs if she is not to experience grave emotional, intellectual, and even physical deficits?

You will always pick your child first when both need you and while of course you must, this will harm the infant's ability to trust and wil mean you are delivering second rate care. This child's mother should be raising her own child and you shouldn't be making it easy for her to abandon her obligation to her child.

Answer 2

An easy way to figure out a competitive, yet fair, rate is to call around to centers in your area that service infants. Ask them their rates per hour, for half-day and full-day, two-five days a week (or whatever the hours/days you will be providing the service for the infant). Take the average of the rates you get from the other centers and you will have a round-about idea of what is fair in your area. What may be a fair rate in California may be ridiculously overpriced in Tennessee, for example. Generally, infants are more expensive to watch because of the diapering and feeding issues, along with the fact that there needs to be more staff to take care of them. Don't worry, as previously suggested by an ignorant responder, your child (as well as the infant) will not suffer any damage. As long as children build a bond with their caregivers (and the caregivers reciprocate that bond) the child will grow up healthy and happy.

Answer 3

$75 dollars for 2 hours

Answer 4

75 a week