https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:16:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home/page/2#post-2474938 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:49:52 +0000 Corduroy 2474938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Walking distance to home. I love that I can park my car and grab the stroller to go pick up the kids. During the warmer months we often end up at the park. I also love that LO has friends in the neighborhood. She'll go to school with these kids in elementary. We often run into daycare friends around town which is nice since we don't know anybody else in the area.</p> <p>I can't picture spending 90min a day in my cars with LOs. Plus DH wouldn't be able to help out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home/page/2#post-2474785 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:45:04 +0000 simplyfelicity 2474785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just about both. Takes about 4 minutes from home and about 5-6 minutes from work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home/page/2#post-2474782 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:43:24 +0000 KT326 2474782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is half a mile from home. I love how close it is. </p> <p>His old daycare was about 5 miles away but it could take us up to 25 minutes to get there with traffic. And it was the opposite direction from my work (which really sucked commute wise). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home/page/2#post-2474744 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:31:50 +0000 Dahlia 2474744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's about 5 blocks from home and half a mile from work. One of my favorite parts is that we can walk there and back every day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home/page/2#post-2474473 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:56:20 +0000 pinkarmadillo 2474473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both! It's in between work and home. It takes 5 minutes to get to my work and about the same to get home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home/page/2#post-2474466 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:55:04 +0000 bisous 2474466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Close to home! My partner and I don't work close together and I need him to be able to help. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474446 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:50:45 +0000 CakeLady 2474446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Close to home, which works out best for us since I have two office locations that are pretty far from home and I work from home fairly often. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474442 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:49:45 +0000 pregnantbee 2474442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both for me, home for DH. It helps that I live and work in the same city. Preschool is fairly for DH to access off the highway -- kind of makes a triangle between work and home for him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474432 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:47:18 +0000 PawPrints 2474432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Close to DH's work, which works out well but it's definitely a temporary solution for us. Whenever DH is too sick to go to work, LO has to stay home since there's no way to get her to daycare. Would not have been a problem in the past since we rarely ever had to take sick days, but since LO has been in daycare we've been laid out with sinus infections, ear infections, pinkeye.... hooray for the Catch-22 there. It's not great, and also DH prefers to take the bus to work anyway so he can sleep, rather than having to drive all that way. So we are eagerly awaiting our spot coming available in our neighborhood daycare only a few blocks from our house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474394 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:36:08 +0000 anniefannie 2474394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is right near my husbands office but still on the way to mine. So we both are able to do pick up/drop off if needed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474387 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:34:08 +0000 MamaG 2474387@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both? I work 3.1 miles from home and daycare is 2.6 miles from home and 2.1 miles from work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474386 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:33:50 +0000 josina 2474386@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Close to home and love it that way so DH can pick DS up if I have errands to run after work.<br /> Our old daycare was closer to work and meant DS had to go with me everywhere or I had to drive out of the way to take him home first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474354 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:24:17 +0000 ShootingStar 2474354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's basically around the corner, literally 2-3 minutes away. I LOVE it. We used to go to one that was about half way between home and work and this is so much better. </p> <p>It's so much easier to share pickup/drop off, it's easier if one of us is sick, or if daycare is open and work is closed. So, so much better that being near work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474312 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:12:49 +0000 lamariniere 2474312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both, since I WAH. :silly: It takes 2 minutes to walk there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474301 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:08:24 +0000 DillonLion 2474301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsKoala: We also commute together! </p> <p>Our daycare is close to our house. I don't want to sit in rush hour traffic with a screaming toddler. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474297 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:06:36 +0000 teresajdb 2474297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@petitenoisette: Ha! I know on days when I'd been stressed out and work and then had a rough long commute with a screaming 2 year old... I would definitely let my husband know how good he had it! haha... :silly:<br /> My girls are three and five now, so I think age makes a difference and they don't really realize that you're gone a little longer. If they were smaller, I can definitely see how having them closer would make me feel better. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474287 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:02:30 +0000 catlady 2474287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both. About 10 min walk from home and about 15 min walk from my work. Plus it's basically right on the way for me when I walk to work. This was super important to us since I walk to work and didn't want to add too much more time onto my commute. We are lucky that we actually had a couple options right on my route. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474283 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:00:08 +0000 kodybear 2474283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2 miles from home. i love it! esp since i work at home a couple days a week. but even without that, when we lived a bit farther during our transition between houses, having to commute (30 min) with 2 tired kids after daycare was the worst. one or both were crying. we only had to do that for 2 weeks but it was the longest 2 weeks </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474276 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:57:36 +0000 Alba4 2474276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Close to work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474254 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:51:21 +0000 sunshineandsushi 2474254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Close to home for multiple reasons:</p> <p>1 - DH and I share drop-off/pick-up so that we can be flexible with each others' schedules<br /> 2 - I don't want them in the car that long, especially now that they're older<br /> 3 - when one is sick, it's quick for me to drop the other off at daycare<br /> 4 - also for when I'm sick and still need to drop them off<br /> 5 - when I'm randomly off work and still take them to daycare </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474250 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:50:36 +0000 LuLu Mom 2474250@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>close to my work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474249 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:50:35 +0000 sapphire 2474249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is about 10 mins away from our house, slightly out of my way to work but still convent. It's very close to the park and ride that my husband uses. I do drop off and Dh does pick up. I think closer to home is nice because unless both partners work close to each other, having it near one persons work could be very inconvenient for the other person. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474245 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:49:19 +0000 petitenoisette 2474245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@teresajdb: Yea I think you're right that it will be way better to have her close to home. I just don't love to think of the number of hours she'll end up there. I also think as she gets older I'll probably get more of a sense from her of having fun and loving being there so that will help!</p> <p>And I feel you on the meltdowns, I'm pretty jealous of my husband's commute knowing he never has to listen to a crying baby half the way :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474232 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:47:09 +0000 gingerbebe 2474232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, neither?</p> <p>Its like equidistant from our house and my job but not on the way to either. Its sorta on the way home for DH on the days he commutes. </p> <p>It was the only place we could get in, so it is what it is! Luckily DH does pick-up and drop-off on days he works from home so its not awful for me, but I did have to adjust my work hours one day a week to be able to get DS to daycare without waking him up so early in the morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474229 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:46:45 +0000 teresajdb 2474229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@petitenoisette: I switched daycares recently because it just became too much to commute with them everyday. I commute about 40 minutes one way and I was bringing both my kids with me to a place close to work. My younger daughter would often a have a meltdown half way through the commute and it would just lead to everyone starting off the night together poorly. Also, I was the one who was solely responsible for drop off and pick ups. My husband would do them if I needed to but it was out of the way.<br /> Now that we've switched to a center closer to home, it's so much better. They spend a little more time there everyday, but it's less stressful, they get more time with dad, and as bonus my older daughter can continue after school care there once she starts kindergarten in the fall. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474216 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:44:55 +0000 blackbird 2474216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOVE the location. It's a mile or so from the house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474207 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:43:58 +0000 Alivoo01 2474207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Close to home! Much better since I work from home some days or if DH needs to do pickup/dropoff. I work pretty far from home so it wouldn't be convenient for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474199 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:42:51 +0000 mediagirl 2474199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: well, I didn't know exactly how long the waitlist was but I knew it was almost impossible to get in before she turned 4. Lucky me - we were first in line and a child from the same age group left the school (ya know, because they are moving to Italy for a year....) Woohoo! Haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474196 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:42:10 +0000 mrsjazz 2474196@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Closer to home but we have to take the bus. We've been taking Uber all week and it's adding up! Can't wait until pre-k when we are a 5 minute walk from home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-daycare-close-to-work-or-close-to-home#post-2474191 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:41:02 +0000 MrsSCB 2474191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: so crazy! did it actually take 18 months? I'm hoping it might not be quite that long because it's free to get on the waitlist, so maybe everyone just puts their kid on just in case? But obviously we'll need backup. I guess I should have signed up for daycare six months BEFORE getting pregnant :meh: </p>