We got Lark in daycare, which is an amazingly difficult process. There are waiting lists that stretch for one or two years. She is on the waiting list at one place since her birth and she still is not off of that one. It is amazing to me that more daycares don't open given the crushing demand for them. After much agonized searching we did finally find her one that seems ok.
Our day care is almost 200 bucks a week, which is no small potatoes. It was possible to find daycare for $65 a week, but that is in neighborhoods where it is not safe to walk around (of which there are plenty in Norfolk_. The extra money suddenly doesn't seem so bad.
What amazed us is the utter garbage that they feed the kids everyday. This is a daycare affiliated with a prominent and well-respected children's hospital too, you might expect them to know better. Especially nowdays, when the US is witnessing an entirely avoidable epidemic of childhood obesity. They claim the meals are "well balanaced, nutritious, and age-appropriate" when, in fact, they are all prime examples of the contemporary American crisis of fast food and processed foods better called crap.
The breakfasts they serve include morning meals featuring worthless cereals like Captain Crunch, Frosted Flakes, and Apple Jacks. Of course, we can feed her breakfast at home before dropping her off so she can avoid the sugar bomb in the morning. Lunch is a minefield as well, including french fries at least twice a week, tater tots, fish sticks, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, and so on. Good grief. The snacks are all sugar cookies and other things with sugar. Or with salt.
The only way we are allowed to bring in our own food if it is both packaged and has an expiration date. And/or we need a religious reason not to eat certain foods.
They might not understand nutrition in the South, but they do get religious zealotry.
Our day care is almost 200 bucks a week, which is no small potatoes. It was possible to find daycare for $65 a week, but that is in neighborhoods where it is not safe to walk around (of which there are plenty in Norfolk_. The extra money suddenly doesn't seem so bad.
What amazed us is the utter garbage that they feed the kids everyday. This is a daycare affiliated with a prominent and well-respected children's hospital too, you might expect them to know better. Especially nowdays, when the US is witnessing an entirely avoidable epidemic of childhood obesity. They claim the meals are "well balanaced, nutritious, and age-appropriate" when, in fact, they are all prime examples of the contemporary American crisis of fast food and processed foods better called crap.
The breakfasts they serve include morning meals featuring worthless cereals like Captain Crunch, Frosted Flakes, and Apple Jacks. Of course, we can feed her breakfast at home before dropping her off so she can avoid the sugar bomb in the morning. Lunch is a minefield as well, including french fries at least twice a week, tater tots, fish sticks, hamburgers, chicken nuggets, and so on. Good grief. The snacks are all sugar cookies and other things with sugar. Or with salt.
The only way we are allowed to bring in our own food if it is both packaged and has an expiration date. And/or we need a religious reason not to eat certain foods.
They might not understand nutrition in the South, but they do get religious zealotry.
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