Day cares are more affordable, convenient and offer development options than any other care arrangement out there for working moms. But there are many drawbacks about daycare that working moms should avoid them.
They are a have for bugs, fights and injuries, inflexibility in opening and closing, inconsistent care and negative change in behavior. As an alternative moms should look in nannies, baby sitters or any other in-home care arrangement.
Why Avoid Putting Babies on Daycare
1. Daycare are Havens for Bugs
Babies are nice and all but germy too. Daycare, with all different kinds of babies, are havens for bugs. And the bugs never seem to go away and brings the bug home ; making everyone else sick. And this gets repeated over and over. Your child may miss daycare on some days for being sick too.
Read: How to Avoid Daycare Bugs
2. Baby Fights and Injuries
Kids in daycare fight all the time, for varying reasons, and are often seen as normal for their age. But there is a limit if it gets out of hand and becomes injurious. Your child will show up with a bruise, a scratch, a bite, or anything else as a result of a fight. Your child can be either the victim or the perpetrator.
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3. Inflexible Opening/Closing Time
Most daycare runs like an office, standard opening and closing hours. This sometimes makes it super hard for working moms who need to report earlier at the workplace but must wait for the time the daycare opens.
Enrolling your kid to daycare means a frantic morning and evening for the working mom. During the evening, working moms also have to rush to pick up their kids before the daycare close. Others will even charge extra for any extra hour the baby stays at the daycare.
Such kind of inflexibility does not help working moms attain a work-life balance and is also one of the biggest disadvantages of daycare centers. It is a top reason why you should avoid daycare if you very tight and fixed working hours.
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4. Inconsistent Child Care
Unlike in-home care arrangements, you have no control over the employees at the daycare centers. You have no say in their hiring or firing. Also, you will find that the center has a high turnover and hence the kids are subjected to different caregivers.
All these factors affect the quality of care that your child receives from the daycare. It leads to some inconsistency in care that will reflect a change of behavior in your child and what many working moms hate about the daycare.
Your child is also less likely to form any kind of bond with the caregivers and might hate staying at the daycare.
Also, the inconsistency of care can be caused by too much commercialization of daycare whereby they take up more kids without keeping up with the number of staff. In this case, the babies will lack personalized care and attention as the babies are too many for the few staff.
Read: Why to Choose a Nanny for your Infant/Toddler
5. Daycare may Lead to Change in Child Behavior
It is granted that enrolling your child at daycare will change their behavior. Some for the best and some for the worse. On the good side, they become more relational and social from interacting with other kids after joining daycare.
They also develop and become more resilient than those in-home care arrangements. They even adjust well into the formal educational system later.
On the other hand, most baby’s behavior becomes more aggressive and impulsive after joining daycare. Your baby may seem to fight more at home and be adamant in demanding things.
The negative change in behavior happens because of interacting with different personalities at the daycare that in return influence their behavior. Therefore find alternative child care and avoid daycare to ensure positive behavior in your child.
