It's Not Abuse, It's Daycare

The life of a working mom requires a lot of juggling. And daycare.

I've written about the tiresome mommy wars and made my personal plea to play nice. But a fellow mother must not have read the memo when she graciously provided me with this anti-daycare propaganda link. Good girl gone bad, my fangs came out.

Please allow me to clear up one little thing: It's not abuse, it's daycare.

The website states, "Daycare institutions don't care about or love your child like you do." Damn right and I'm not asking them to. No working mother believes daycare can love their child like they can. I'm paying (not asking) daycare to keep my child safe and enriched for a certain number of hours a day. I'm paying daycare to engage my child in music, art, and socialization. Daycare does these things for me and they do it well because I picked a great one. I did my homework and excuse me, my daycare cares.

The website quotes, "Daycare is a sad place..." - Toy Story 3. Maybe daycare is a sad place FOR A TOY!

Daycare may not be for every family but it is for mine.

I work outside the home and my children are in preschool and after-school care. This is our life, we don't cry about it and most importantly, we don't view our decision as one of defeat or resignation.

Daycare doesn't care? Then you haven't found the right one.

Daycare doesn't love? It doesn't need to, that's what I'm here for.

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