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Opinions please
So I have a predicament (sp...I sure wish they had a spell check!) and I would love to hear your opinions on the matter.
Background: I'm starting a new job on Mar 2. This new job is nowhere near where I currently work. The job is 1 hour drive northeast of my house. Declan currently goes to daycare by my current job and will stop going there on Fri. Before I started my current job Declan was at a daycare that we LOVED but I decided it might be better for him to spend more time with me (in the car) close to my work then at daycare.
So my question is...should I take Declan back to the daycare he was at originally? Or should I find him a new daycare near my new work?
There are pros and cons to both ways but I want to hear your ladies thoughts please.
Re: Opinions please
Yikes... that's tough. With the new job is there a way for whoever goes in later to drop him off and whoever gets off earlier to pick him up? (I'm sure you've thought of that, though, so you guys must keep fairly similar hours.
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What would you do, then, after you've moved? I assume that once you move to the area you want to, this daycare would be TOTALLY out of the way.
Since you are planning on moving, I would probably search for a daycare near work. Simply because you don't want to change his routine too much too often right now (well, if he's anything like my sister's son - everytime she changed his routine he would get really upset with her...Declan doesn't seem that way though).
It may be easier if you find the daycare near your work though. That way if you have to work late, you won't be rushing to get home to get him before they close.
I agree.
Yes if he goes to the daycare near our house I would drop him off in the morning and MH would pick him up when he gets home. The plan is to move Declan to a new daycare once we sell our house...but the new daycare will be close to our new house. So either way he's going to have to switch daycares again because our new house will still be about 30 mins away from my work.
My thinking is I'd rather him go to a place we're comfortable with and he's comfortable with which would be original daycare. But I'd also rather spend time with him which means he drives with me to work.
If he drives with me he'll be in the car/at daycare for 11 hours each day (2 of those hours in the car).
If he goes to daycare by the house he'll be in the car for 15 mins each day and at day care for 10 hours each day.
Declan is very easy and adapts well to changes so I'm not overly worried about that...but agree that I don't want to change his schedule/what he knows too often.
MH will be picking him up if he goes by the house (which would be nice since I've been doing all the drop-off / pick-ups since he started daycare). And we would have a 2 hour buffer between when MH is supposed to pick him up and when they close (not that I would want him to be there all day though).
Where we plan to move will be past where I'm going to be working. I had originally thought of that but then thought what if we don't sell this house for a long time and I'm driving out of my way that long (I'll already have just over an hour commute and don't want to tack on any more time if I can help it).
I definitely wouldn't tack on anymore time to the commute. Maybe just stick with the place you know and trust until you move. Hopefully you will move soon though.
I think you're right and that's what I'm leaning towards. The only reason why I would prefer to take him to daycare by my new work would be so I can have flexibility in what hours I work and miss rush hour. With the time the original daycare opens I'll just be hitting the start of rush hour both in the AM and PM.
And if he goes near my work then I'll get to go visit him in lunch if I want.
But...I also don't want him in the car for fear that he'd be with me if I got into an accident (knock on wood). So I think overall my best solution would be to take him to the daycar where he'd be in the car the least amount of time.
Thanks for being my sounding board ladies!
I think your right the daycare near your house sounds like the best bet
Something to consider - there's the statistic of most people get into accident within a mile of home. I don't remember the exact numbers, but if you were to get into an accident (god forbid!), you could anywhere.
Yeah I know...but I would assume the chances of it happening the more time you spend in the car are greater. And plus I'll be doing highway driving...and I tend to go a little over the speed limit on the highway (you have to in this city though otherwise you'll get run over!)