re: How much do you pay for child/day care for your little ones?

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$975 for all day preschool. In the Birmingham area, that’s fairly high

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Same. Just 1 kid.

My friends back in Mississippi pay around $600/ month I think

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20K a year for day care for the older one and 40K a year for a nanny for the younger one.

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$3,853.50/month for kindergarten and early childhood program. Plus whatever aftercare costs.

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I begin to understand why some young people these days talk about eating their kids.
Are there any good recipes on the Food and Drink board?

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Seeing what ppl are paying I'm even more glad I'm single with no kids

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Cost is a big reason I was careful with who I was sticking it in

$860 a month just outside Birmingham at an in-home daycare. So far so good comparatively

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$120 a week per child.

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How is that even possible? What kind of people do you have taking care of your kid?

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I feel sorry for people who bring there kids to these “ home” daycares. Man you don’t know what’s going on there

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Mine went to home daycares but one was run by their great-aunt and the other was a longtime family friend who had cared for several generations of kids in the family.

$1440 a month for 2 kids. I can’t wait till they start kindergarten

The figures being thrown around in this thread are absolutely mindblowing.

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The figures being thrown around in this thread are absolutely mindblowing.

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Agreed and daycare can be crazy competitive. Eye opening moment for me was when my wife was pregnant with our second one. We had to pay like $150 / week for unborn child for a few months just to keep the new baby’s spot reserved and keep them from filling the spot with some other crumb snatcher. The classroom for newborns started in August with 4 out of the 5 babies either unborn or still had mom on maternity leave.