cost of DayCare Centers..

[Anthony's Mommy]

Our Daycare is $23.00 a Day for my 2.5 year old (been paying that for the year he has been going). That includes 2 snacks and 2 cooked meals (it the ONLY time he will eat veggies!!) I just supply diapers and wipes.they are open 6am to midnight m-f and 6am to 6pm sat and sunday. I think I am getting away pretty good. He absolutley loves it. He sings songs and can count. He needed to be around other kids. 2 days a week he is with my MIL, but that is also good for him. Woman that owns the daycare is opening another one in town (I right now take DS to the next town over). The new will will also have pre-school, so another plus.

 

[Minnesota!]

We have a nanny now that we pay $320/week to. Before we snagged her, though, we were paying just under $500/week for my kids at a center.

Little one was $278/week and the older one was $238/week. But I got a 10% corporate discount, so we were paying $52 less.

My nanny will probably be leaving us soon (she wants to go back to school), so we are going to have to figure something out. DS4 will be starting Kindy next year and full day at a Catholic school is going to be cheaper than a daycare center! We will be paying around $600/month for him to go there. Little one will probably go back to the center where I had them initially. He will be cheaper, though, as he will be a toddler by that point...so he will probably be about $1000/month.

I can't wait until they are both school aged!

 

[steelebug]

I pay 135 a week for my 3 year old full time daycare. The girls go to the same center afterschool and I pay 100.00 for both of them for afterschool care. We live in KY. So it is about 1000.00 a month. I thought it was alot until I read some of the other posts.

 

[hollyd99]

I'm in Canada too, and daycare is far higher than $1000 per month. I'm not sure where you are, but I'm in Ontario. Subsidies are municipal here, not provincial, and the funded spaces are for fairly low incomes.

I agree about the lack of spaces. My 4 year old is still on a list I put him on when I was pregnant! I called about it a couple of months ago and there are still about 50 kids ahead of him!

Babies are $560 and preschool is $360.

So yes, if you have more than one child it could be over $1000.

My daughter got kicked out of 2 home daycares before i found the centre she's in. She missed me too much and cried the whole time. One place she lasted a day and a half and the second one was 2 weeks.
I personally would never send my kids to a home daycare. Those 2 ruined my perception of them.

 

[disneyJMD]

I have two children in daycare Full time. My son is 13 months and is $195/wk and my daughter is 3, and costs $160/wk. thankfully my childcare center does give a 10% discount off of the second child enrolled--so off of the younger child. So my weekly total is $335.50/week. I expect this will go up about $10/week at the beginning of the month as we always get a letter from the director in September. I can not wait to be rid of this expense--hopefully my husband will be able to quit his second job then! (I work full time too!) We do love the center the kids are at, and the kids are there for about 50 hours each week. The only thing I wish was different is that we have to pay even if the kids aren't there. It would be nice to be given a week "off" from tuition each year if the kids were on vacation. How does eveyone else's childcare centers work? Are you given any weeks off during the year from tuition payments?

 

[disneygal2007]

I am a FCC Provider (Family Child Care) I charge 125 per week No matter the age. thats for all day care. For before and after school it is 80. This is weekly.

But I currently have just one child. She is just after school, so now I am looking for a job.

 

[fortheluvofpooh]

I definitely live in the wrong area. I am an inhome child care provider, I get paid $3.25 an hour for 2 sisters ages 2 1/2 and 1 1/2. They are at my home from 6:30 am until 4pm most days. So it is approx $30.00 a day x 5 days.

 

[fortheluvofpooh]

Babies are $560 and preschool is $360.

So yes, if you have more than one child it could be over $1000.

My daughter got kicked out of 2 home daycares before i found the centre she's in. She missed me too much and cried the whole time. One place she lasted a day and a half and the second one was 2 weeks.
I personally would never send my kids to a home daycare. Those 2 ruined my perception of them.

your poor dd, I do inhome care and I had a little girl for 5 1/2 yrs and this summer she really got homesick for mommy. It is heartbreaking to see it. We would let her call mommy at work, but mommy gave her the rule, that she can only talk for 3 minutes at each hour. So her mommy had a timer that she would set when her dd called her, when her dd heard the bell go off she knew her time was up. This seemed to help her but ultimitaly and thankfully mommy is now on maternity leave and dd is home with her. I sure do miss her. I am so sorry your dd had to endure being booted from 2 in home daycares, obviously they were not the right place for her. I hope things are going well for her now.