Dragonflymama
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DD (nearly 4yo) currently commutes with me (or DH) 15 miles each way between home and her daycare center near my work. Most of these miles are freeway driving. I just hate that she is exposed to so much commute time/crash risk. However, there were no openings in any local daycare centers when we moved to the new house in August 06.
Well, we just got a call that we are at the top of the waitlist for a center that is less than a mile from our home. Do we move DD to a new center to save the commute? She is pretty adaptable child, but still talks a lot about missing her old house and old care provider from before our August move. She has been in the current daycare center for 9 months and has really settled in, made good friends and seems generally well-adjusted. The new daycare opening is for September 07. She will then have been in the current center for a whole year and then we would be moving her to the new one for only one more year before kindergarten.
I am torn. A huge part of me wants to get her off the freeway no matter what. But I also feel sad for her having to make another big social adjustment just when she has gotten settled and comfortable with the current daycare center. Also, the current center is a very nice, newly constructed facility while the "new" one is a great program, but housed in an old "retired" elementary school building. Great teachers, but no air conditioning, old equipment and furnishings, just plain old. That shouldn't matter, I know, but it is nice that she is in such a new and comfortabel setting now.
I keep telling myself that it doesn't matter if I avoid the discomfort of a change in centers if she gets hurt or worse in a freeway accident.
We need to decide this week, so I'd like some feedback (support, as you can probably tell, I am leaning towards making the change but feeling bad for my little girl having to make all new friends).
Well, we just got a call that we are at the top of the waitlist for a center that is less than a mile from our home. Do we move DD to a new center to save the commute? She is pretty adaptable child, but still talks a lot about missing her old house and old care provider from before our August move. She has been in the current daycare center for 9 months and has really settled in, made good friends and seems generally well-adjusted. The new daycare opening is for September 07. She will then have been in the current center for a whole year and then we would be moving her to the new one for only one more year before kindergarten.
I am torn. A huge part of me wants to get her off the freeway no matter what. But I also feel sad for her having to make another big social adjustment just when she has gotten settled and comfortable with the current daycare center. Also, the current center is a very nice, newly constructed facility while the "new" one is a great program, but housed in an old "retired" elementary school building. Great teachers, but no air conditioning, old equipment and furnishings, just plain old. That shouldn't matter, I know, but it is nice that she is in such a new and comfortabel setting now.
I keep telling myself that it doesn't matter if I avoid the discomfort of a change in centers if she gets hurt or worse in a freeway accident.
We need to decide this week, so I'd like some feedback (support, as you can probably tell, I am leaning towards making the change but feeling bad for my little girl having to make all new friends).
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