You’re Not A Bad Mom For Sending Your Kid To Daycare All The Time

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The myths about the daycare culture abound, and I emphatically state that none are true, at least in my experience.

After I had a baby, I quickly realized that, despite just having had a human yanked through my abdominal wall, my bills still needed to be paid. And it turns out that my family members have whole lives of their own that do not include spending entire days with my spawn. So it happened: my child became the dreaded “Daycare Kid.”
For some reason that I can’t understand, “daycare” has become a derogatory term. And “Daycare Kid” is even worse. It conjures up images of some kid dropped off at a warehouse where he or she is largely ignored and needs a tetanus shot before playing on the playground equipment. Daycare Kids are unruly. Daycare Kids are the bullies. Daycare Kids are to be feared.

Wait, what?  Unruly?   Bullies?  To Be Feared?  If you ever met my kid, these terms are absolutely the last ones that would come to mind. Giggly, kind, behaved to some extent, funny, independent. These are terms that best describe her.

I cannot deal with this anymore. There are so many myths surrounding Daycare, and it’s time to kill some of them dead.
1. Those poor babies! They are left alone to cry for SO LONG! Just no. Want to know the rule at my kid’s daycare on this? 7 minutes. That is how long they are allowed to cry in their cribs. Want to know how I know this? I asked them to let my kid cry longer. We were sleep training her and I asked them to let her cry it out (I see your judgy eyes, you stop that right now), and they couldn’t because of the 7 minute rule.

This mom is so spot on.  Read on at Scary Mommy to see what else she has to say.  Heard myths of your own?  Leave them for us in the comments.

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