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@Finfan: I only ever went to my grandparents, I'm assuming because they were close, didn't work and were free! We didn't have a lot of money growing up.
My dad is a farmer so was always at home, once I became old enough, I think around grade 4 I would just go home and just fend for myself. My dad would be out in the barn or fields, I spent a lot of time in the barn too. -
I went to a home based care giver, then preschool, then when my sisters arrived we had nannies.
MIL was SAHM and had two live-in nannies. A stay in bed mom if you will. 🤔
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I went to a daycare, then large after school care center. My brother and sister went to an in home and also my dad stayed at home for 1.5 years when my sister was little. My mom quit her job when I started HS to SAH.
Related to that, I wanted to find a job that fulfilled me creatively and allowed me to also be home with my kids, so it helps that I'm a photographer. I use a preschool for DD1 for PT care while I WAH and I'm hoping to move closer to my parents in the next 6 months and use my mom to care for th girls 1-2x a week.
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Babysitters and a large center until I went into kindergarten, then my sibs watched me after school (I was the youngest by 5 years).
It had no bearing on my childcare decisions now. My oldest was in daycare starting at 2.5 years. DH is now a SAHD because it makes the most sense. -
My grandma watched me, and my mom also took me to a daycare at her workplace (she taught high school). Later, we were latchkey kids. How I was raised doesn't really impact how I plan childcare, except that I view moms working outside the home as entirely normal.
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I was in a home based daycare followed by a private school pre-school. My brother had a nanny followed by church daycare before entering public pre-school.
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My mom was always a SAHM. It definitely influenced me to want to SAH too.
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My mom was a SAHM. When I was 3 I started part-time preschool. My experience with having a SAHM definitely influenced me wanting to be one.
DH's mom worked and sent him to a babysitter. She was a teacher most of his childhood though so after he was in school he didn't need additional care.
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Age 0-2: I wasn't in any type of outside care, but my mom was very sick with PPD, so I was cared for by my dad and other family members while she was in and out of the hospital. We also moved from NY to TX during this time
Age 2-10: I went to pre-school/kindergarten at the same location (Jewish pre-school) from age 2-5, and then started elementary school in 1st grade. I went to aftercare at the elementary school while my parents both worked full time
Age 10-graduation: My mom stopped working due to her ongoing illness and my dad went into business for himself, so I did not have any outside after-hours care after that, as I was either home with my mom or hanging out at my dad's shop.
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My mom was a SAHM
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My mom was a sahm. It probably had some influence on me choosing to sah for right now, but certainly wasn't the decision factor.
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Growing up we were in in-home daycares/babysitters or in grandma care. I do remember being physically manhandled and also witnessing it by one in home sitter when I was like 5 and I'm very wary of in-homes for that reason. DH's mom stayed home until all the kids were in school then took a job at the school so she would be home the same hours as them. We always assumed that our LO would be in daycare. He has been for the last nine months but due to some alarming events at our daycare combined with my schedule sucking I will be a SAHM for a bit until we figure out what we want to do.
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My mom stayed at home with me for the first year and half or so, then Grandma care.
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My parents hired a babysitter until I was a year old, then they switched me to a daycare center.
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My mom went back to work when I was in 3rd grade. At that point I went to an after school care program that was in the same building where my mom worked.
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My mom was a SAHM. My grandparents also lived 20 minutes away and would watch us regularly.
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I lived with my grandma during the week at first! My parents both worked and they lived too far away from my mom's parents, so I just lived there during the week and they'd pick me up on the weekend. Then eventually I think I had a nanny.
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My mom was a sahm until we were in grade school. Then we were latch key kids for an hour or two starting from 4/5th grade.
Dh had a babysitter and daycare later on
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I went to at home daycares. I enjoyed it. I've worked in a community daycare and I'm glad I went to the home daycares as a kid. The community daycare felt busy and I know as a kid I would have hated the organized games and activities.
I don't know what we'll do when we have kids. I think my parents will babysit often, not sure if we will require daycare.
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