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Excellent work – a few of you…..
$26,700.
All I could say ” Holy SH…..”
I can’t imagine if I was a single mom with a deadbeat father of my children.
Dog
WOW, I guess I won’t complain how much me and my wife pay anymore. We only have 1 under 3 and we only pay $4,000 for the year.
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Although I agree that prices are ridiculous, when I think of what those people do on a daily basis, I understand. Not only caring for multiple youngsters all day–feeding, entertaining, teaching, changing diapers, cleaning up puke, but when the day is all over, they then have to clean up the house, plan meals for the next day, and likely go grocery shopping. I’d charge an arm and a leg, too! Our provider should be nominated for sainthood! Thanks, Diane
x1000 It’s also invaluable to leave your most precious cargo with someone you can completely trust!
I can’t wait til it starts going down, oh wait, it never does. So you guys can stop fooling yourselves… 
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$170/week for an infant
There’s advantages and disadvantages to both, I guess. Cost at a center sure is a lot more, though.
Ours is $165/week AND she provides all diapers and wipes 
Those centers are crazy, though. One benefit is that you don’t have to take a vacation day just because your babysitter does, too. They’re open every week day of the year except holidays. It still doesn’t justify paying double the amount of home daycare, though.
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Our provider should be nominated for sainthood!
Right on man!
As should many more! 
To the many men and women who work for peanuts (relatively) to take such wonderful care of our most precious treasures without a lot of thanks and praise!
(As a deflection…Nope never had a day car provider in our family)
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Excellent work – a few of you…..
$26,700.
All I could say ” Holy SH…..”
I can’t imagine if I was a single mom with a deadbeat father of my children.
Dog
I assume you and your wife both make well over 30k (each). Otherwise one of you might as well just stay home. It’s nuts what day care costs.
Depending on what/where I find a new job, we may just have Nicole stay home with Dominic. Otherwise she’s working to pay for daycare. Which as we all know is a dumb idea.
I agree 100% wade. How much is the extra time spent with your kids worth. Best decision we ever made was to have Salli stay home with the kids. Well other than having them in the 1st place.
Best money you’ll ever spend!!! Having someone else raise YOUR kids… Precious cargo right there….
What will the daycare generation run this country like? Won’t be that long and we’ll get to see….
Hope it creates revolution and America heads back to one income fams with one parent home rearing the lil’ ones for the first 6 – 10 years.
Call me old fashioned…
My wife tried to go back to work. We figured it out that she was making less than $100 a month. That was a no brainer.
DT
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Best money you’ll ever spend!!! Having someone else raise YOUR kids… Precious cargo right there….
What will the daycare generation run this country like? Won’t be that long and we’ll get to see….
Hope it creates revolution and America heads back to one income fams with one parent home rearing the lil’ ones for the first 6 – 10 years.
Call me old fashioned…
My guess Kurt is that will be the generation that has no problem sticking Ma and Pa in the old folks home at the 1st little inconvenience.
If we were independantly wealthy I’d stay home with my kids. I think it’s rather arrogant to say I love my kids less than you do because I put them in daycare. I was partially raised by babysitters so my parents could both work. I like to think I turned out OK even though I root for a losing football team. 
Guess I must have misrepresented myself as my 2 kids and my 2 stepkids all spent some time at daycares. Some great, some not so great…. Back when it was dirt cheap… It was always a dream of mine but could just never pull it off seeing how we have nice jobs. Poor excuse as I reflect back. To date all 4 seem to be doing fine. 1 Mom of 2 (stay at home), 1 working with less fortunate elderly population (insert crappy pay), 1 double major at U of W, Madtown and youngest is in the Marines….
Mike – Not sure that could get any worse. Have you ever been around elder care homes? My stepson works in that world, my sis-inlaw and nephew all spend time in that field and it’s a train wreck… Building upon building full of “unwanted” elderly folks… If you ever want to make someone happy spend some time helping them out. Just talking or I should say listening, playing cards or even taking them outdoors… The general American population doesn’t want to talk about it as it’s not politically correct….
Whatever, I’m still old fashioned on this one so flame away. Afterall it’s easy sitting behind the keyboard….
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If we were independantly wealthy I’d stay home with my kids. I think it’s rather arrogant to say I love my kids less than you do because I put them in daycare.
How’s the weather up on your high horses Kurt and Mike? I think I get paid alright, but I am certain we’d struggle on one income. In a perfect world, my wife or I could stay home with the kid(s), but it’s pretty unrealistic these days unless one of you has a killer job or you somehow don’t have a mortgage.
I don’t believe its unrealistic. We just decided that was how our family was going to be, did the financial planning and did it. You can bet it was a struggle on one income but not impossible. We just planned it out and lived with in our means.
Part of that plan was what house we where going to live in. We are still living in our 1st home that is fairly small house but with a very manageable mortgage. That was our decision. Must say it has worked out well so far. As our kids are into their teenage years now our small home provides plenty of contact time with them because its just hard for us not to keep running into each other. Another unforeseen benefit of this plan.
Wouldn’t say I had a killer job to make this happen. For the most part I don’t believe we have ever even hit that middle income class. For the last few years its been well below that. I think these harder times have just brought our family closer together.
To me what is unrealistic is telling the wife you are going to work 40hrs a week, add in another 10hrs of commute time, then come home to a messy home, un fed kids, clothes, day care, shopping, ect, ect, ect, and we are going to take half or maybe even most of your income to pay for all of this. Sounds like a recipe for disaster and a very stressful home life to me.
I apologize for keep referring to the wife staying home. I know nowadays its not always the wife that is the stay at home parent. Good friends of our he stays home because of her income. Its what worked for them.
Haha. I’m not flaming either of you. I would too stay at home if i could. I also believe it would be better for the kids. However i also think they will be ok on this path. 
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I don’t believe its unrealistic.
Well, we’re not going to see eye-to-eye on this, but if you somehow think you’re better parents that my wife and I because you didn’t send your kids to daycare, you can kiss my hairy a$$ .
Better parents for keeping our kids home? There is a argument with no winners. Did we make the right decision for our kids and family? Yes.
Honestly, I’m more worried about what they learn from some of the liberal teachers they have pumping info into them for 9 months a year. My daughters talk about fishing and getting to shoot guns on the farm and stuff like that. I worry how ostracized they get for that.
Sorry getting off topic a bit.
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My wife tried to go back to work. We figured it out that she was making less than $100 a month. That was a no brainer.
DT
She could always do what my mom did: Become a daycare provider. She got to stay home with us and make money while she was doing it. Best of both worlds.
I will say this, though. Whether it’s a babysitter or a grade school teacher or anyone who works with kids all the time, the lack of adult interaction starts to turn a person crazy after a certain amount of time. I know I couldn’t do it.
We are actually going through that process now. We were trying to avoid that route and have held off pulling the trigger for many years. Both of our parents did daycare for 25+ years. We have to do a lot of small thing around the house to meet the licensing requirements.
DT
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