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So frustrated about Kindergarten....
I feel like I am the only mother in my area that;
a) Works full time
b) Does not have in laws who look after their kids
I have the best in home day care in the world right now but I just registered Cam for JK last night. The thing is that I am having no luck in finding care for him after kindergarten......... I have even tried to see if I could find a service to transport him to our current day care.....
I never thought that it would be this difficult!
Re: So frustrated about Kindergarten....
Do you have anything like AfterSchool Care provided by a day care center in the school?
I thought this was something all across Canada? My youngest daughter attends Jk and goes to the after school program at 3:15.
Perhaps a fellow JK students mother who is a stay at home mom and lives near by?
It probably varies from board to board, but here in Kingston, you can use your DCP's closest school as your "home school." We can send our kids to whichever is more convenient.
I know a lot of schools around here do not provide after school care.
It totally varies from school to school. I know in our board there are some full day every day JK/SK programs, full day alternate day JK/SK programs and some that are still half day. Some schools have daycare centres in them, some have before/after care and some have nothing.
I stressed last year b/c the before/after care at DS's school couldn't guarantee me a spot until just before school started in August!
You may want to ask at the school itself. Some babysitters leave contact info with the school. Good luck!
Thanks for the advice ladies but everything that you mentioned is causing me problems.
I cannot use the school closest to the babysitter as that is not allowed. There are no full day kindergarten classes at the school. There are before and after school programs however, they are only for the full days. So if he is in the morning class, I can use the before school but I still need to do something with him for lunch and all afternoon until I get home. There are only two daycares in the area that do pickup from the school and they are full.
I am checking into the home day cares (through the school and through friends) but they all seem to have Grade 1 and above for next year so they don't want to take on any JK or SK students.
It just seems like this is more hassle than its worth but he is soooooo excited to go to school.
I also think that I am just mad that one of the home day care contacts questioned how good of a mother I was because I needed somewhere before school, in addition to my boss wondering why I couldn't spend 2 days in Montreal at a moments notice......
Wow. That sucks. I hope you find something.
Aww, yeah that totally blows.
It is really hard to find a balance between a full time job and spending time with kids, ecspecially when you feel your emotions being pulled in two different ways.
I am a leader at a Before/After school program, and there are kids that are at the school from 7:30 in the morning until 5:30/6:00 at night.. that turns into a really long day!! But we try and make their experience fun, and help them out with homework and things that they might be doing if they were at home. Some of them have so much fun at the program, they are upset when their parents come to get them!
That's atrocious for someone to question your capacity as a parent by the fact that you work, and therefore require daycare or similar options. It's really sad that moms are expected to do it all - work to support the family, but be home in time to make supper, clean the house, and take care of the kids! Good luck finding something!