Once you've gotten
on some daycare wait lists or lined up a nanny, don't cross the task off your list and forget about it.
Oh, and by the way, if you're planning on putting your child's name
on daycare waiting lists, do so the minute the stick turns blue.
Not exact matches
Subsidized
daycare spots are few and far between in most provinces, which means that the people who most need help are left
on endless
waiting lists and scrambling to find solutions, often unable to return to work or school.
If you live in an area where
daycare centers are in high demand, consider going
on a few tours and putting your name
on waiting lists now, even if you aren't sure what you'll do.
But nobody told me the most useful information — to get
on waiting lists for
daycare centers immediately.
We use Fuzzibunz for
daycare, which are a little
on the expensive side, but we
waited to buy them until he was a size medium and would wear that size for a while (he has been in mediums for a year now and has lots of room left to grow).
Firstly, you might be shocked to start your search for the perfect
daycare, find one — and then find out that you have to be put
on a
waiting list for several months to a year.
Unfortunately, today's «
wait till they're ready» message and ever larger diaper sizes has given
daycares the opportunity to shirk this responsibility, and many now ask parents to keep their children in pull - ups WHILE they work
on potty - training.
We've all heard the stories about parents who put their future progeny
on waiting lists for
daycare even before they are born and that, my friend - remains true!
I'm sitting in my childhood living room
on the weekend playing the mine cart levels of Donkey Kong Country, suddenly; I'm at my
daycare waiting for the bus to arrive passing Nintendo 64 and Playstation One controllers around while my friends and I play a large selection of open world collect»em up games, finally; I look around again and I'm laying in bed watching Let's Plays and videos of classic games I had missed out
on like Glover and Banjo Kazooie.
The second you find out you're expecting and know you'll need child care, get
on as many
daycare wait lists as you can, recommends Laura de Vries, an early childhood educator and a part - time professor at George Brown College in Toronto.
And it's not as if I'd left the search to the last minute: I'd schlepped my poor son to more than a dozen
daycares and put his name
on six
waiting lists.