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I have a young daughter, my partner is looking to go back to work. In an ideal world, she’d be a stay at home mum till our youngest goes to school but financial pressures mean we cannot do that.

I know daycares are regulated but I’m still really not at ease about the idea of leaving my baby with strangers all day.

Has anyone else faced this? What did you do to vet the places you looked at? Is there a rating scale I can look at for daycares? Do they get audited?

I just want my girl to be safe

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    16 days ago

    If you have the time for it, ask some daycares about bringing your daughter in for a few hours. You stay and watch and see how she fits in.

    If you can, try out a few places like this and see which you are most comfortable with. Not every parent will have the time or inclination to spend this long looking at each, but most centres should be happy with it and would have seen it before. It’s pretty natural to be worried about sending kids to daycare and a good centre will help you feel better about it.

    Also remember you don’t have to go from nothing to full time. It will depend on the centre (because part time kids make ratios harder) but most centres will be used to kids doing 20 hours because of the 20 free hours the government provides.