How many of you have your children in daycare and how did you choose the facility? I recently had to switch Ryland's daycare providers because I got a new job and the hours were radically different and didn't match the daycare he was already in. I had literally 3 days to get my child care assistance switched over to the new daycare, and his enrollment papers filled out. I had already toured and did an intake interview with one (the first one on the child care assistance providers list that matched my hours) so he is going there. But, after looking online, they have AWFUL reviews. There's about 10-12 reviews, and only one is nice that is recent. There's a couple other nice ones, but they're old and from 2008 or so. So I'm kind of freaking out. I will pull him out if I have to... I didn't necessarily get a bad vibe from the place until the director called me a "customer", which is what I am technically, but that certainly makes a parent feel like a statistic rather than someone who has a child you will love and care for all day. Their rooms also feel a little... Cold? Not temperature wise, just LOVE wise. I don't know, maybe I'm freaking out for no reason and it's all in my head...
Also, how the hell do you get your mother to seriously just shut up trying to tell you what to do with your kid? Mine lives 5 hours away, and still manages to drive me bonkers. "Give that baby boy some rice in his bottle, he's hungry." "No mom, that can choke them and lead to allergies." "Barbara that's stupid, I did it with you and you're fine, stop believing everything you read on the internet." She is like that with absolutely everything. And this past week he had bronchitis, and she blamed me for not taking him into the doctor soon enough. Like, what? I took him in as soon as he had symptoms. And then when we gave him breathing treatments, she was all "Make sure you give them to him Barbara, he'll get more sick if you don't." Like, I KNOW. He's MY SON. I care about him too and do what's best for him, too. Why does she think she's the only one who cares or gives a crap?
UGH.