What time does your daycare/before care open/start?

[andwhat]

I am trying to gauge if I am crazy looking for a place that opens at 6am.

[ribollita]

Daycare 6am
Before school care 6:30am

[hw77]

6:30am - 6pm midsize chain daycare... you can pay for 9, 10 or 11 hrs

[chickadee77]

Our opens at 7 and closes at 6. I don't know how that works for anyone with an 8-5 and a commute.

[andwhat]

Aug 25, 2016 11:53:32 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

7:30 at the school, I don't know at daycare, because I was never close to needing it. Maybe 7am?

I think 6 is crazy early.

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[Deleted]

Our daycare is open 7-5:30pm. I think 6am is going to be really hard to find.

[penguingrrl]

Our old daycare (a large national chain) opened at 6:30, current one (small local preschool) opens at 7:30. Before are at our elementary school opens at 7.

[Susie]

7:30am - 5:30pm

Our daycare center is downtown, near where a lot of people work (but not so much where they live).  That makes it easier to have shorter hours, because most parents don't need to fit commuting time into daycare hours.  I know "daycare near work not home" goes against conventional MMM wisdom, but it works better for us for this reason, and also because it means I don't have traffic backups between me and my firm pickup time.

[starburst604]

I believe it's 7am-6pm at our daycare. (Large local chain)

[lolo]

730-530

[cinco]

6:30am.

[hocus2]

Daycare: 7:30
Public School: 7:20

6 would be hard to find around here. There are regulations about how long a child can be at daycare and so most set their hours to the max time to prevent having to track individual students. If they opened at 6 they'd have to close at 4.

ETA: There are also regulations about the hours public schools can accept parents. The school zone over does have an early morning drop off program starting at 7 and I think it would be very difficult for them to be open earlier.

[lessel]

7:30-6:30. Though if you pick up your kid after 5 be prepared for them to be the only, lonely kid and you to feel like the worst parent. Because of that I wish they'd shift their hours early. Especially because my kid wakes up at 4:30am. I would love a 7am drop off time.

[raangoli]

730-6pm

She is there from 730-ish to 515-ish. I don't have to commute to go get her, I use the extra time to go to the gym or run an errand after work.

[NinaSimone]

Daycare 6:30 - 6
Before/after care at school 7:30 - 6

[Brie]

Old daycare was 6:30. Current preschool is 7:30.

[hocus2]

Aug 25, 2016 11:57:38 GMT -5 lessel said:

7:30-6:30. Though if you pick up your kid after 5 be prepared for them to be the only, lonely kid and you to feel like the worst parent. Because of that I wish they'd shift their hours early. Especially because my kid wakes up at 4:30am. I would love a 7am drop off time.

  I feel like that will vary with each area. Our daycare was pretty full at 5:00, but by 5:30 a lot of kids were gone. I used to pick up at 5:30 ish and there usually 5 or 6 kids out of 19 there.

[vtdiamond]

Our center is open 6:30am - 6:30pm.

[Ashley&Scott]

6:30am - 6pm seems to be the norm in my area

[cricketwife]

Daycare 7am- 6 pm

[lishie]

when we used it daycare was 6am to 6:30 p.m.

I wanted as much flexibility as possible.

[cherry1111]

Our daycare is open 6:30-6:30.

[Deleted]

Our old daycare was 630.

[Blue Moon]

Daycare and before care are the same- 7am-6pm.

I briefly looked for a 6:00 or even a 6:30 am daycare because I need to be at work at 7:15 am and I work 20 minutes away from daycare/home. I couldn't find one. My H has no choice but to drop DD off precisely at 7am, and then pray there's no traffic on his 50 minute commute. He's often late.

[countthestars]

Baby room 7
Preschool+ room 6:30

[moopoint17]

Before care starts at 6:30 (although I don't think anyone drops off before 7).

[countthestars]

My friend needs 6am drop off and had to go with an in-home

[jene]

Our center is open 6:30-6:30

[andwhat]

Aug 25, 2016 12:05:43 GMT -5 Blue Moon said:

Daycare and before care are the same- 7am-6pm.

I briefly looked for a 6:00 or even a 6:30 am daycare because I need to be at work at 7:15 am and I work 20 minutes away from daycare/home. I couldn't find one. My H has no choice but to drop DD off precisely at 7am, and then pray there's no traffic on his 50 minute commute. He's often late.

This is my fear. I am being involuntarily transferred to a shift that start 530/6am, H has to be at work at 7, daycare opens at 630. In ideal conditions he could make it, but this is traffic time. He doesn't have a job where he can be late to work. Right now I do drop-off because I work evenings. 

Even when I was pregnant we tried to find a nanny due to our work hours and we couldn't even find a nanny who wanted to start at 6am. And now we would need to find someone to take her at 6am and then drive her to daycare when it opens or school when she goes next year. Ugh I am hating my job right now.SaveSave

[Velar Fricative]

6:30 am to 7:00 pm.

I live in the land of long commutes and haven't heard of a single daycare around here that opens before 6:30. Maybe in-homes might?