Reasons Why Home Daycare is Better Than Daycare Centers

The Comfortable, Educational, Loving and Safe Choices for Your Children

My passion in life has always been children since I was a child. I wanted to be a mommy more than any thing else. I knew that before I was old enough to marry and have kids, I could work with children in different areas and that is what I did. After summer camp, babysitting and then college, I ended up at a daycare center as a full time teacher. It was my dream job, at first. I loved that I had my own classroom. I thought that I would always work at a daycare center, that there was no place that was a better fit for me.

I soon found that I had more children than the daycare center state law allowed and no one seemed to care. I was unable to give any special attention to my 15 plus students because there were so many children without help. I was putting out "fires" all day at the daycare center instead of teaching them anything. What was wrong? Had I just picked a bad daycare center?

I was not permitted to set the limits with the children that I wanted. My boss was so concerned with losing daycare center clients that she insisted on us putting up with unacceptable behavior from the children. The few children that were well behaved at the daycare center were practically ignored because I was dealing with all the problem students. I wasn't allowed to talk to the parents about the problems because they couldn't know that our daycare center was anything but perfect.

I saw one side of the daycare center after the parents left and saw a different daycare center when they were around. Eventually, I hated working there. I felt like I was the only one trying to help these young blessings become great adults. My hands were tied everyday while working at the daycare center.

I left to become a nanny for nearly 5 years. During that time, I had several friends who were working at a daycare center who had almost exact stories to tell. The children were mass taught and no one was given the attention that every child deserves. We all experienced small amounts of art, activities, or one on one time at the daycare center where we worked.