What is right for me, family child care or a daycare center?
There are pros and cons to both centers and family child care. The three major draw backs about day care centers, are the tuition is often substantially more than family child care. Secondly, day care centers frequently have a high turn over rate for their employees (30%-40% per year). So just when you child gets attached to their teacher, they may be gone. Thirdly, and sometimes most surprisingly the child to teacher ratio is much higher in a day care center because they are able to count cooks, bus drivers, and office staff toward their child to teacher ratio, so your child actually gets less individualized attention then they would in family child care.
