7 Surprising Effects Daycare Has on Your Kids
Get ready for "Mommy, play with me!" Harry spends 8 hours a day playing with his best friends and being entertained by adults that are paid to play. So when I have to clean the house and do laundry on the weekends, he doesn't understand why I can't drop everything to play cars for hours on end. This one is probably the hardest for me, because as the youngest child to a stay-at-home-mom, I was a champion at playing by myself.
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I've written quite a bit about our experience with daycare. How we decided to make the move to daycare from a private nanny, how we chose our daycare, even the benefits of daycare. We are lucky that we've found a place that we trust to take care of our son as well as we do at home. There are side effects of daycare that are expected -- language explosions, your kid being sick all the time, that moment when your kid calls out for his teacher instead of you. We've seen all of those and handled them in stride, along with the increase in birthday party invitations and testing my ability to remember fresh napping materials every Monday. On the other hand, there are side effects of daycare that we didn't plan on… -By Beth Anne Ballance
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