How many hours per day/week is your child at DC?

[7costanza]

Sorry to add to the recent abundance of daycare posts, but we started looking this week and I'm feeling really bad about how much time our baby will spend at daycare. With my current, and my H's planned, work schedules he will likely need to be there around 55 hours per week. I really like my job and don't want to leave it, but i'm worried something will need to change once he's here. How long does your child spend each day or week in daycare?

[Deleted]

8-6, M-F

[starlily]

around 8am to 5:30/6pm, M-F

[karinothing]

Mon - Tues = 9-4

Wed - Fri - 730 - 4

[havarti]

M-Th 7:45-5:15

[Brie]

7:30 or 8 until 5 or 5:30, Monday through Friday.

[Deleted]

7:30-5 m, w, f

[mie]

About 50 hours/week.

[Deleted]

Average time is 8-5:30, give or take 30mins.

[savan]

7:00 - 4:30 M-F.

[Ashley&Scott]

M-F, approx. 9 hours per day.

[h]

40-45 hours a week

[7costanza]

Apr 18, 2013 19:40:38 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

7:30-3:45 ish right now mon-fri.

In the fall, we'll have a nanny for the baby 8-4-ish mon-wed (Lu will be at preschool in the mornings) and then I'll be home with both on thurs and fri.

There is a WA state law that kids can't be in DC more than 10 hours/day.

One provider mentioned that babies can be there for up to 10 hours per day, but I had no idea it was a law. Thank you, and ugh! I think we def need to come up with a plan, because I don't see how we can make 10 hours per day work with our current schedules.

[asoctoberfalls]

49 hours a week. He's there for 11 hours on Mondays and Tuesdays and 9 hours on W-F. The 11 hour days are the ones where I do dropoff and pickup. Between my commute and my required 1 hour lunch, it is what it is.

[asoctoberfalls]

Forgot to mention, some kids at L's daycare are there the entire day, every day - 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM.

[everam01]

M-F 7:45-5:15

[greekypie]

M - F, 9am to about 5 (basically anywhere between 430 and 530 I'll pick him up, depending on my work day).

That's when I'm not traveling. When I'm gone, he's there 8:20ish to 545 or 6.

[hocus2]

8-6 more or less (so 50 hours or so). I'm ok with it. I've worked from home with a nanny these last few years and I'm ok with sending my kids to quality care. I'll pick up early when I can but this is really the best we can do. 

[zacksbride]

6:30 - 5:30/6 M-F  - usually about 11hrs/day

[catbus]

I've never heard anything about WA having a law against a kid being in daycare more than ten hours a day. This is the only reference to the regulation I could find, and it's not quite that black and white...
"A child may not be in care for more than 10 hours a day except as necessitated by the parents’ working hours and travel time to and from the program."
jenny1980, do you have more information? My center has never mentioned this not is it written in their policies, and they have pretty much everything in writing.

[turtletop90]

About 8 - 5:45

M - Th 

[honeybadger]

7:30-5:30 M-F (50 hrs/wk)

[catbus]

Apr 18, 2013 23:03:50 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

Apr 18, 2013 21:16:44 GMT -5 catbus said:

I've never heard anything about WA having a law against a kid being in daycare more than ten hours a day. This is the only reference to the regulation I could find, and it's not quite that black and white...
"A child may not be in care for more than 10 hours a day except as necessitated by the parents’ working hours and travel time to and from the program."
jenny1980, do you have more information? My center has never mentioned this not is it written in their policies, and they have pretty much everything in writing.

Yeah, I have it somewhere--it was referenced in a few faqs from places we looked at. I'll see if I can find it :-)

Thanks!

[rootbeerfloat]

7:30-5, M-F

[madringal]

M&F 8-4. On T, W, R she is at MIL's.

[mrshandy]

8:15 - 5:15 Mon - Fri

So I guess that's 45 hours a week.

[justjen]

42.5 hours. (9-5:30 every day.)

This is because DH does pick up and drop off. If I had to do it, she would be there several more hours.

[Deleted]

Typically from 730 to 345 T-W-Th; and then on Mon and Fri more like 9 to 3 or so (when I work at home).

[pinkdutchtulips]

it's varied ..

from 7 wks to about 6 months it was 3 days/wk - 8:30a to 5:30p
6 months to about 17 months 5 days/wk - 8:30a to 5:30p
17 months to 2 years 5 days/wk - 6:45a-5p
2y to 3y - 5days/wk - 7:15a to 4:30p
3y - current - 2 days/wk- 7:15a to 4:30p

last night h and i joked that dd's dcp has spent more time w/ her than we have

[ijack]

We pay our nanny for 45 hours a week, but generally the girls are with her between 40-45 hours a week (7:30-4:30).