things writing my last post and reading the reponses made me realize

[flea]

1. I want RF Mom to like me. There are practical reasons for this - I work with her every day - and impratical ones - I want to be approved of by someone who is very popular and well-liked.
2. I am wary of corporate child care. On a practical level, we should ask to tour the facility, which I haven't done in 2 years. On an emotional/social instinct level, I'm not sure if anything can be done about this. I do have a strong feeling that a family-like setting is best for the care of children under 4/5. Corporate day care centers feel like warehousing to me although I know they aren't.
3. I wonder if I would be able to leave my 3 month old in a room with 7 other babies under one year old and 2 adults? If I wouldn't, we might as well just hire someone to care for Casper and hypothetical future sib in our home - the cost is about the same, since 2 kids in a center is $$.
4. Yeah, opting in is the obvious choice. The real dilemma is what to do if we are offered the spot.

Comments

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Just how corporate is the daycare center? Since it's university-sponsored, are there lots of student workers? Our U. has two centers -- one has an entirely professional staff, the other has paid staff and professors supervising Education majors who are doing internships. We chose the second one, because the students are just so excited and energetic about their work. There's nothing warehouse-like about it at all. (The student teachers do rotate every 8 weeks, though, and some families don't like that rate of turnover, but we've never found it to be a problem.)

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

We don't have an education department. It's exclusively staffed by full-time employees. I really need to go see it.