I live in joilet IL and I cant find a daycare that is at a reasonable price for my infant son
2006-09-03 14:58:50 · 5 answers · asked by daddiespreciousprincess 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Call your local Dept of Social Services.. they should be able to give you a list of daycares or a number to call for a large list of daycares... In Lex, NC we have a place called Parnership for Children, it is part of the daycare enforcement... maybe you have something along those lines in IL... good luck, daycare prices have gotten HIGH. The average out here is anywhere from $100- $135 a week...
2006-09-03 15:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by Al & Cork 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work in daycare and suggest looking into in home daycare for an infant. They are usually priced a little lower ( not always though). But in a daycare center the ratios of staff to infants are NOT low enough, at least here in Michigan. Regardless if the center is how quality or not, 1 staff member for every 4 babies does not leave adaquite time during the day for an infant to be held and coddled nearly as much as it needs. It has nothing to do with the staff, it's just not humanly possible to give high quality one on one care to an infant when you have three other infants in your care. I don't know how mothers of quads do it! lol
2006-09-03 16:45:28 · answer #2 · answered by AyeLuvNames 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That might be because daycare isn't reasonable usually! At least it doesn't seem that way. I pay 165/week for my toddler, my newborn will be 185/week.
I used to crab about it all the time! It seems absolutely outrageous. Then one day I figured it out. The AVERAGE person works an 8 hour day. That means that the child will be there usually 45 hours a week give or take, but lets be nice and say 40. This means that at 185/wk, leaving your child at the daycare ONLY 40hours, you pay $4.63 an hour......
My daycare is on the high spectrum, I paid $140/week for my son when he was an infant.
2006-09-03 15:15:34 · answer #3 · answered by #3 Due December 25th!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infant care is extemely expensive because the ratios are way lower. If you are medium to low income, you might want to apply for subsides childcare. You might want to look up your states department of education for more info.
A real good thing about state programs are that they usually have more requirements for the teachers (such as education background) and their ratios are way smaller than most private agencies or centers.
2006-09-03 16:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by lildevilgrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a nanny might be a better idea.. it depends on how good of a job u have.
2006-09-03 18:10:14 · answer #5 · answered by joy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋