5AF Parenting Thread

[King Colby]

Daycare just raised prices and our weekly cost went up by $55

I dont understand how they think they can just increase your expense by a life changing amount whenever the **** they want

[mac5155]

I know I whine a lot about our daycare but I must say cost is one thing they cannot be touched. $30 a day for 9 hours is insane cheap.

[King Colby]

Dude. $369 and $303 per week now. And that includes the 2 kid discount

Edit: as in that's the cost for each kid based on their classroom price. So $672 a week. Crushes my mortgage payment.

[count2infinity]

Wtf… I’m at $177 a week.

[King Colby]

I have no idea how you guys are paying so much less. The cheapest place near me when I started looking 5 years ago was like $240/week and they had a 2 year waitlist. I think when we first sent him to this place it was $270

[robbiestoupe]

I pay $250 for 4 days

[Morkle]

275 for 3 days.

[Dickie Dunn]

Dude. $369 and $303 per week now. And that includes the 2 kid discount

Edit: as in that's the cost for each kid based on their classroom price. So $672 a week. Crushes my mortgage payment.

JFC

[meow]

Getting mad at daycare costs is like getting mad at traffic. It does not good

[DigitalGypsy66]

And people wonder why the birth rate is dropping.

[mac5155]

$120 a week (4 days x 1 kid)

I guess this is the difference in living in the sticks versus a bigger metro area?

[mac5155]

Dude. $369 and $303 per week now. And that includes the 2 kid discount

Edit: as in that's the cost for each kid based on their classroom price. So $672 a week. Crushes my mortgage payment.

That's insane. My wife's gross pay is a little under $1k a week at that price she may as well stay home

[Morkle]

Getting mad at daycare costs is like getting mad at traffic. It does not good

Just a sunk cost if you want to have kids. Shouldn't really consider anything more than a payment that only goes away to turn into something else they want to do in the future.

[mac5155]

Yeah haha, my wife was like "it'll be nice when he gets to kindergarten and we can save that money"... nah, he'll be in sports, baseball, hockey, video games, whatever. lol

[NTP66]

Still pales in comparison to daycare tuition. Most of that money went straight into our brokerage account.

[count2infinity]

Source of the post sports, baseball, hockey, video games, whatever.

Baseball and hockey are sports...

[mac5155]

You serious Clark?

[robbiestoupe]

We're doing sports with 2 kids and daycare with one. Sports is like 1 daycare payment per year, per child.

[King Colby]

Dude. $369 and $303 per week now. And that includes the 2 kid discount

Edit: as in that's the cost for each kid based on their classroom price. So $672 a week. Crushes my mortgage payment.

That's insane. My wife's gross pay is a little under $1k a week at that price she may as well stay home

My wife's pay barely covers it and the excess probably isn't worth the hassle of working. But (1) as a teacher there's a long term benefit so we really view it as an investment into our future, and (2) she needs to do something or she'd be miserable. Also working gives her less time to spend money...

[King Colby]

We're doing sports with 2 kids and daycare with one. Sports is like 1 daycare payment per year, per child.

Do you also do baseball and hockey or just sports

[robbiestoupe]

We're doing sports with 2 kids and daycare with one. Sports is like 1 daycare payment per year, per child.

Do you also do baseball and hockey or just sports

no, video games

[NTP66]

Which may be more expensive than actually playing sports, lol.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Unless you get roped into travel sports, daycare is way more expensive. And even then, travel sports may be cheaper.

I remember when our youngest son started 5K. It was like we both got $3000 raises. Daycare in these parts is cheap, and we were fortunate to not have to pay for much afterschool daycare as they could hang out in my wife's classroom after school. Getting rid of diapers was almost as financially gratifying.

[meow]

I have a kid in hockey and a kid in ballet. Two more expensive activities. Waaaaay cheaper than daycare

[King Colby]

i could have both boys on two hockey teams at $2 grand per kid per team and still have about $20k to play with...