[问题] 请问半天或全天照看婴儿的大约费用
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I asked one asking $1300 包吃住. But she won't cook dinner and won't take care of baby at night.
，也只能慢慢找合适的保姆了，你知道非住家保姆的行情吗？hardtoname
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My opinion:
public daycare is better than private home daycare. Since usually, there are more than one care giver around. Don't know where you live. I know downtown in Ottawa U, the day care has program for baby starting from one month. And the teachers are really nice there. In Kanata, the Children Place has infant program.
I did not send my child to private home, since I saw some treating babies really careless. Babies were really poor there.
Another opition is finding REGISTERED home daycare, since they always have their supervisor visiting them.
The best is your baby's granny can come and take care of him/her. Baby need as much love and patient as possible. I quited my job to take care of my daughter up to one year till she could expressed herself. (At that time, no 1 year leave available) then I backed to work again. You only have that time with your baby once in her life.
public daycare is better than private home daycare. Since usually, there are more than one care giver around. Don't know where you live. I know downtown in Ottawa U, the day care has program for baby starting from one month. And the teachers are really nice there. In Kanata, the Children Place has infant program.
I did not send my child to private home, since I saw some treating babies really careless. Babies were really poor there.
Another opition is finding REGISTERED home daycare, since they always have their supervisor visiting them.
The best is your baby's granny can come and take care of him/her. Baby need as much love and patient as possible. I quited my job to take care of my daughter up to one year till she could expressed herself. (At that time, no 1 year leave available) then I backed to work again. You only have that time with your baby once in her life.
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Forgot to tell, the expense for infant in OU daycare was $1000/month in 1999.In Kanata, it was more than $1000 /month 2 years ago.
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Thanks,丫丫and hardtoname. If I had long term support from the grandparent family, I would not trouble myself now to look for a nanny. Hardtoname, where is the "Children plance" in Kanata? You are right, private child care, especially the one without any reference from friends is unsafe. But I worry an infant under one year hasn't strong immune system, Is cross infection a considerable problem in today's public daycare?
I probably will change my mind once I meet my baby and connect to her. Thanks again for the info.
I probably will change my mind once I meet my baby and connect to her. Thanks again for the info.
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Sorry, it's Children's Place . their home page: http://www.childrensplace.on.ca/homepage.htm
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I still think it's easier for a small baby to get sick in a daycare centre than in a private home. I didn't send my first one to a daycare until he was about 2 and half and I plan to do the same to my second one. Also, by sending him to a daycare centre almost means the same as your giving up his chinese.
For my second one, I stayed at home for a year and begged my mom to come here to take care of him for a half year, and now he's 1 and half and I think he is ready to go out of home. After some hesitation, (I have a neighbour who's babysitting my first one after school offered to take care of my second one as well, the only downside is she's English speaking),I still chose to find a Chinese lady to look after my little one.
And I have my reasons to dislike daycare centres. First of all, there're so many kids, it's good for bigger ones to play and communicate with each other, but for infants, do they need to? I guess not much. For baby before 2 and half, teacher/kids ratio is 1:5 (correct me if I am wrong), and after I think is 1:8. Rarly a home-based care giver would carry that many kids, except those so-called "REGISTERED home daycare".
Secondly, Still too many kids, some parents are well aware of keeping sick kids at home, some just don't bother until the teacher formally inform them that they'd better do so. Usually there're about two-four techers in a classroom, meaning that you have 10-20 infants or 20-30 toddlers in one room, if one or two get sick, don't need to imagine what will come next. I've seen not once that almost the whole class got running noses.
I admit the regular programs running in a daycare centre is much better and the teachers are well trained for it, but all these are good for toddlers, preschoolers, not infants.
There's a daycare centre close to our home, I've been there once to look for a space for my big one when we just moved closeby. Everthing looked terrific, the teachers are nice, big play room, all sorts of program. But last year, since I was home with my second one, I have many chances to pass by the daycare centre's play ground and sometime, they came out to the park beside my house, so we sort of playing in the same play ground. I saw so many unpleasant things, ok, maybe not too many, but even once I'll not feel comfortable. One example: a girl, around 1 and half, was sitting on a bench in their play ground, crying for mom, two teachers were standing about 5 metres away, having a conversation with each other. I stood outside with my baby for couple of mins, nobody came close to the crying girl. Ok, the girl got attention at last, I almost wanted to alert them that somebody's crying, but I was guessing whether that's one of their strategy to train babies.
Maybe I criticised too much, really, you can't ask somebody else to love your baby the same way you do. But I have the feeling that usually Chinese are better, at least the couple of care-givers I ever had are really good, sometime even too good, I have to tell them to take it easy.
I guess I wrote too much here, maybe nobody will bother to read to the end.
So I'll just briefly speak out my preference here: if possible, stay as long as you can with the baby (better till 2yr), otherwise, find a chinese person at least till he could well speak chinese, then send him to a daycare centre (I say for him to suffer, so he would know what a home is, how good parents are)
For my second one, I stayed at home for a year and begged my mom to come here to take care of him for a half year, and now he's 1 and half and I think he is ready to go out of home. After some hesitation, (I have a neighbour who's babysitting my first one after school offered to take care of my second one as well, the only downside is she's English speaking),I still chose to find a Chinese lady to look after my little one.
And I have my reasons to dislike daycare centres. First of all, there're so many kids, it's good for bigger ones to play and communicate with each other, but for infants, do they need to? I guess not much. For baby before 2 and half, teacher/kids ratio is 1:5 (correct me if I am wrong), and after I think is 1:8. Rarly a home-based care giver would carry that many kids, except those so-called "REGISTERED home daycare".
Secondly, Still too many kids, some parents are well aware of keeping sick kids at home, some just don't bother until the teacher formally inform them that they'd better do so. Usually there're about two-four techers in a classroom, meaning that you have 10-20 infants or 20-30 toddlers in one room, if one or two get sick, don't need to imagine what will come next. I've seen not once that almost the whole class got running noses.
I admit the regular programs running in a daycare centre is much better and the teachers are well trained for it, but all these are good for toddlers, preschoolers, not infants.
There's a daycare centre close to our home, I've been there once to look for a space for my big one when we just moved closeby. Everthing looked terrific, the teachers are nice, big play room, all sorts of program. But last year, since I was home with my second one, I have many chances to pass by the daycare centre's play ground and sometime, they came out to the park beside my house, so we sort of playing in the same play ground. I saw so many unpleasant things, ok, maybe not too many, but even once I'll not feel comfortable. One example: a girl, around 1 and half, was sitting on a bench in their play ground, crying for mom, two teachers were standing about 5 metres away, having a conversation with each other. I stood outside with my baby for couple of mins, nobody came close to the crying girl. Ok, the girl got attention at last, I almost wanted to alert them that somebody's crying, but I was guessing whether that's one of their strategy to train babies.
Maybe I criticised too much, really, you can't ask somebody else to love your baby the same way you do. But I have the feeling that usually Chinese are better, at least the couple of care-givers I ever had are really good, sometime even too good, I have to tell them to take it easy.
I guess I wrote too much here, maybe nobody will bother to read to the end.
So I'll just briefly speak out my preference here: if possible, stay as long as you can with the baby (better till 2yr), otherwise, find a chinese person at least till he could well speak chinese, then send him to a daycare centre (I say for him to suffer, so he would know what a home is, how good parents are)
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Susan说的都对.太小的孩子放哪儿都受罪.我女儿在一洋人的dayhome呆过两个月,有两次我提前下班去接她,她都是一个人在basement看电视,caregiver一个人在楼上也不知道在忙乎啥.还有就是总是吃署条什么的.在正规的幼儿园,营养配餐还是有保障的.总是生病是事实.大概有半个月就要发个烧什么的.让人头疼死了. 我女儿一岁半那个冬天,鼻涕流了整整一个冬天.不过她也学会了很多东西.比如一岁多就会用剪子,会自己穿衣服,穿鞋.两岁时会唱许多的英文儿歌.都是在幼儿园学的.最重要的是她非常独立.至于Susan说的中文完蛋了是事实.我女儿两岁时说的都是英语.好在我们及时弥补了.long story.
