We are currently close to home but moving to close to work.
Where is your daycare and why do you like/dislike its location?
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Neither. Our house is much closer to my work than his school. We drive out of the way to bring him to school.
When he started it was on the way to work. I wish it was closer, but we love it!
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Home so we can share drop-off/pick-up duties. Also, I get every other Friday off from work, but still plan to send LO when I have dr appointments or errands to run.
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Home. So much easier because we can alternate drop off and pickup. I'm also hoping some of the kids in her class will be in her Kindergarten class this way so there are some familiar faces when she starts school.
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At work! We all commute together everyday. It's pretty awesome.
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Close to home, under 5 min drive. DD never likes being in the car so distance was extremely important.
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This is a good question. I'm in the middle of daycare search craziness and wondering if it's ever worth not being close to work OR home -- maybe if you really love the place? Would open up some more options, but I don't know whether we'd end up hating the extra travel. I found somewhere I really like that's close to my H's work, but of course it has an 18 month waitlist...
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It is in the middle of the two. I kind of wish it was closer to home though so I didn't have to commute so far with LO.
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When we 1st moved here it was closer to work which I preferred so he could spend less time in DCP
Now they are both closer to home, mainly because I needed them to take them to/from the 1/2 day K program. Its also nice on those days I am off and DCP is open
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Very close and convenient to my work (and opposite direction from my husbands, 35 minutes from home). I do not like that 1) husband can't do any drop-offs/pick-ups, 2) she can't go if I am home sick, 3) least importantly, she can't go on any of the random days I have off (as a teacher I have some that daycare is still open). I'd be nice to be able to send her for a half day every once in a while (or during vacation). I also have 0 clue what their policy is on taking her out for the summer.
That being said, for her first year in daycare I think the fact that she is so close if I ever needed to pick her up or in the event of an emergency outweighs the negatives. Still, we are on a waiting list for a daycare right near our house and visiting another one close by next week too for next year. It was hard finding something that opens up early enough near our home since we both leave for work by 6:30!
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@MrsSCB: haha so did this place that we finally got into.
We have had a range - close to work, close to home, close to nothing. I don't really care about where it is as long as I love the place.
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@Mamaof2: I'm totally conflicted by that part of spending less time in daycare! Now that she's close to my work she's only there for 8-8.5 hours and I can technically pick her up earlier if I want to but that's in the middle of naptime! If she were close to home it'd be more like 10
But then I'm like is the time spent driving with me in the car any sort of QT? -
Home, because DH works 5 minutes from home, and I work from home a few days a week. Plus, we thought if I had to pick her up from daycare because she was sick, I'd rather have a short trip home with a sick kid than a long subway ride.
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Home. At first she was closer to work but it was harder for me. Had to take her with me to doctor's appointments, DH could never help out, if we were off and took her had to wait out traffic. SO much easier having her by the house.
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We went with the best quality daycare we could find. We looked at places close to home, my work (10 minutes away), and his work (20 minutes away). We ended up with one close to my work and we're not thrilled. At all. Luckily a spot opened up at my work in a couple weeks, so we're transferring there. Honestly, I would happily drive a bit more for a good quality daycare.
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Both. I live 10-15 min from work and day care is on the way. DH generally does drop off (he works from home) and I always do pick up. Works nicely for us. Even better since we moved...DH's drop off time has been cut significantly.
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@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
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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LOVE the location. It's a mile or so from the house.
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@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.
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. -
Ugh, neither?
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.
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.
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@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!
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
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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.
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close to my work.
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Close to home for multiple reasons:
1 - DH and I share drop-off/pick-up so that we can be flexible with each others' schedules
2 - I don't want them in the car that long, especially now that they're older
3 - when one is sick, it's quick for me to drop the other off at daycare
4 - also for when I'm sick and still need to drop them off
5 - when I'm randomly off work and still take them to daycare -
Close to work.
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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
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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.
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@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...
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. -
@MrsKoala: We also commute together!
Our daycare is close to our house. I don't want to sit in rush hour traffic with a screaming toddler.
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Both, since I WAH.
It takes 2 minutes to walk there.
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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.
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.
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Close to home and love it that way so DH can pick DS up if I have errands to run after work.
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. -
Both? I work 3.1 miles from home and daycare is 2.6 miles from home and 2.1 miles from work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
We have had a range - close to work, close to home, close to nothing. I don't really care about where it is as long as I love the place.
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