Day Care

According to the Day Care posting from encyclocentral; over half of all parents handle daytime childcare themselves, the next largest group provide other in-home care; such as nannies, relatives, or friends. The smallest percentage of parents actually use a professional day care service. I currently fall into the 2nd group, in that we have an experienced day care teacher come to our house to watch our children while we are at work. We will, however, be switching to group 3 in a matter of months. The reason behind the switch is due to the fact that Parker and Casey will be entering kindergarten this August, and we would like to get them used to leaving the house and spending the day with a larger group of children prior to the start of kindergarten. I know they would eventually gain the social skills and adapt to the change, but we would prefer to ease them into this change as much as we can. Kindergarten is a big change in a child's life, so any steps to make the transition easier is well worth any other inconveniences as far as I'm concerned.