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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Bingo. From what I can see, stressed out parents do not give a hoot where they "lovingly place" their kids. When a large daycare in Richmond burned down last year my friend with the competing daycare had parents literally dropping their kids off, sight unseen, with a certified check taped to their backpack. If you've got a plastic slide in the front yard and a light on in the basement, that's good enough. You think it's stressful for the parents? Try being the kid with Frank's Red Hot on his tongue.
It's just weird. We give hundreds of thousands of dollars to crooks like Concrete Equities, Platinum Equities, Bernie Madoff, etc simply because they have a web site and a nice office. We drop off the one thing in the world we love most at strangers' houses. Then we go back to those same houses begging to return our kids even when they've failed at their one task. I don't get it and therefore I guess I can't judge. But I see how it might sound "judgie".
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I don't think that's the norm at all - most parents do a lot of research before selecting where to send their kids. But due to the shortage of childcare facilities in Calgary if an emergency happens it can be a real problem. It happened to me a couple of years ago and it was fortunate I have a job with the flexibility to sometimes take some time off/work from home on short notice; we tried to find a place with immediate availability but anywhere credible has a long waiting list and the dayhomes we interviewed we weren't comfortable with. If your kids' daycare shuts down without warning for some people the choice may be send their kids wherever they can for the short term, or lose their job. Even harder if your kid is young since a lot of daycares don't like taking kids under 18 months due to the ratio requriements.