Would you keep paying for daycare or stop? Advice please

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My daughter is 3.5 yrs old and started part time daycare (twice a week) last summer. I am currently 22 weeks pregnant. Since she has started daycare, she has been sick nonstop. I know that is typical, but we have had 4 puking stomach bugs since then and she just now started puking again. She is also speech delayed. I thought starting daycare would be helpful for her speech and other milestones if she saw other kids doing them. She recently got ear tubes for hearing loss (which is most likely the cause of her speech delay) and starts speech therapy soon. My parents are retired and can and do watch her whenever we need and would be more than happy to have her back at their house vs daycare. Her teacher and a school staff member recently sat me and her father down to discuss that they feel that her development is behind and she is tough to manage during the day. I am to the point that I feel like I just want to pull her from daycare altogether. With illnesses, no help in her development, and worrying about her being a nuisance in the class, I just don’t feel the pros outweigh the cons anymore. Would you keep her in for the educational aspects or would you pull her?
ETA: all of her developmental concerns will soon be handled. She has been on waiting lists for months for things in our area. She will soon start therapy sessions for areas she needs help in.

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That daycare sounds like it’s doing nothing for her. Send her to your parents. Where you know she’s gonna be okay and taken care of

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If it’s not helping and she’s always sick then I’d pull her out.

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I’m a preschool teacher, I have 3 year olds. I’ve been there for 6 years. I will say that I’ve noticed when we get “part time kids” they don’t benefit much. Mostly because we have a daily schedule we follow and our learning activities take place throughout the day. We have lesson plans that focus on all developmental milestones and incorporate them throughout the week with our lessons. Mostly focus on communication, expressing feelings, managing emotions and so on. So if you wanted her to get the most out of a preschool/daycare I would suggest to try enrolling her full time and see if that has a positive effect. It can be hard on the teachers having a child only come two days a week also as that can definitely disrupt the schedule with other children and how we plan when doing activities that relate to the lessons. Maybe the daycare you have her at isn’t up to standard but maybe consider trying full time before pulling her completely. They can grow and learn so much from other children around them. Hope this helps ♥️

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Maybe a different daycare would be better because how they sat you down, I would think they would be trying to help her developmentally. She's also old enough for a preschool. I would also look into transitional kindergarten for this school year. My son is 3 in a half too and will be 4 in July. He will be starting transitional kindergarten in august. Schools can be a lot of help for her developmentally. I just want to point out that either when they start daycare or start school your going to have like a year of sickness until they build an immune system

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A lot of people are going to say the daycare is doing nothing. Ashley daycare is doing a lot it's teaching our kids to play well with others. It's making sure she learns how to communicate with other people instead of her being like a 5-year-old and you constantly getting notifications from the school that hey she's not doing this or she's doing that.

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I say as a daycare teacher the sickness will happen oh so often , but if it that consistent, maybe try another daycare. But if your parents are willing to watch her, why not ￼but she will need some of her peers to speak with to help her speech. Yeah this a bitter sweet moment daycare helps but if she keeps getting sick I would pull her too .
Side note( I have a ￼ deaf student he was born that way and got tubes in his hears after 2 months he was talking in class his mom was discouraged at first but he came a long way )

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I’ve been told by my daycare providers in the past that part-time kids don’t get the benefits of daycare the same as full-time kids. My second was part-time (MWF) for several months during Covid lockdown and it did nothing good for him. When he went back to full-time we saw improvements. So personally I wouldn’t bother paying for 2 days a week.

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Enrolled our son in a preschool at age 2, he had never been sick before.  He developed a new cold every 2 weeks for about 1.5 years.  It’s now every 3-4 weeks.  I see it as building there immune system!  However, stomach bugs are often fecal/oral transmission… make me wonder how well the staff are washing their hands and cleaning the school.  I wouldn’t give up on school, but I would consider a different location!

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Pull her out. Grampa and grandma can teach her just like if she was in the horrible daycare. Just my opinion

Would you keep paying for daycare or stop? Advice please

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