Would you prefer a small licensed in home daycare or a big chain daycare?

A family owned/run/small chain of daycare. Childminders/at home childcare just doesn’t sit right with me personally.

@Emilie are you referring to someone babysitting at your home or someone who runs an in home daycare center?

In home day care center! Sorry in the Uk someone who has an in home daycare would be called a childminder.

I’ve worked in both as a daycare teacher. I have found the family owned small licensed daycares to be better run, cleaner and all around better experience for the kids. But of course it all depends on the director of the daycare in both cases.

@Rema agreed, I was a preschool teacher and after seeing the stuff that goes on that’s exactly why I’ll never have my child in one of the big chain daycares.

I was a manager at a small family run chain (they had 3 nurseries) and they sold their company to a huge chain of nurseries and before I left literally ran it into the ground. All my gorgeous kiddos became numbers not people. They didn’t care about family issues or the children as whole people. I’d never have my daughter at a big chain or an in home daycare either

@Emilie yeah it becomes about the money, very sad.

Somewhere in the middle. We started out in a at home daycare and there was no standard of care. We are in a family owned daycare center that is state licensed, follows regulations, has a curriculum but low ratios. My kid was sick more at the in home daycare then the larger center we are at now. It’s the best of both worlds.

To me it feels like a big one would be better. Because more eyes. If it is a home daycare and there is only 1 person, they can do whatever they want without witnesses. Seems like more people would mean more accountability. I worked at an in home daycare one summer and it was a very unsafe place

@Haley a in home daycare where I’m from you can only have 6 kids over 3 years but in the big chain I worked at the had two women with 23 2-3 year olds lol

@Haley that was my experience. There was no one holding the other accountable. No cameras, no director or extra teachers.