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speaking of daycare - my friend who just had the twins, had her kids on a waiting list for a good daycare near her house before they were born.

Posted by Danger Girl (aka Andie) Oct 24 '08, 11:59

like, when she found out it was twins.

and, we have maternity leave for a year so she was looking 18 months out.

also it IS insanely expensive! (for her, $80 per day per KID!) but there are ways to get the government to cover some of it.

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I'm just realizing, I need to become a day care operator in Canada. - Will Hunting Oct 24, 12:07 3
- for two kids remember. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:08 2
  - Even still. Just for comparisons sake, I bring home about 35k a year - Will Hunting Oct 24, 12:10 1
    - i know, it's crazy. that's my point. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:11
I think the most we ever paid for daycare was $70 a week -- nm - amoxy Oct 24, 12:05
We pay $28/day. And I *had* daycare before he was born, but got dropped. (oh, and a daycare saga update!) - Amy Oct 24, 12:03 6
- Wow. That's extremely cheap. We pay $225 per month to a real nice place imo, and that's *very* cheap for our area. Most are in the $300-$500 range. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 24, 12:05 4
  - $140 per week, so closer to $600 per month. -- nm - Spawn Oct 24, 12:06
  - Err.. I mean $225 per week. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 24, 12:06 1
    - I was about to say...holy crap! -- nm - HdnAgnda Oct 24, 12:15
  - per week? -- nm - TFox Oct 24, 12:05
- "Once again Lil Logan, you see that there is nothing you can possess that I cannot take away" -- nm - pixie fierce Oct 24, 12:05
$160 per day is fucking psycho, I'm sorry. -- nm - TFox Oct 24, 12:01 12
- they don't have money. that's just what it costs. pretty much everywhere. - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:02 11
  - They're paying $3,200 a month in day care? One of them is better off working from home. -- nm - David Oct 24, 12:04 3
    - they aren't yet. the twins are still at home. but that is the outright cost when she goes back to work in July. - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:06 2
      - Or, if not cheaper, at least not much more expensive and way nicer for the kids, right? -- nm - TFox Oct 24, 12:08 1
        
        Exactly. Plus, nanny threesomes! -- nm - David Oct 24, 12:08
  - I can't imagine any moms work in Toronto. I sure as shit don't make $800 a week. Might as well stay home. -- nm - TFox Oct 24, 12:02 6
    - Yeah, but many women want kids and a career. -- nm - budice Oct 24, 12:03 5
      - at that rate, you're paying to work. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 12:05 3
        
        I work just for health insurance for everyone. I pay for that, groceries and my car. -- nm - Amy Oct 24, 12:07 2
        
        You pay for more than that, silly. -- nm - Spawn Oct 24, 12:08
        
        in Canada they have insurance. other than that, this woman could be paying more than she earns. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 12:08
      - But like, so they can have some money, right? Not just to have some shit to do? - TFox Oct 24, 12:05
$80 per day per kid!?! Do you mean pesos??? -- nm - Spawn Oct 24, 12:01 1
- i do not. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:01
$100 per month per kid...but $80 is insane -- nm - Beaker Oct 24, 12:00 9
- Even Cletus the yokel would charge more than $100/month. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 24, 12:03 2
  - he's talking about our 'baby bonus' money you get from the government, but the assistance i was talking about is on top of that. - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:04 1
    - That must be why the charges are so high. -- nm - Amy Oct 24, 12:08
- $100 per month per kid!?! That is crazier than $80 per day!!! -- nm - Spawn Oct 24, 12:02
- standard here. it's crazy. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:01 4
  - How willing is your friend to learn French? -- nm - Five-dollar-a-day Mop Oct 24, 12:05 3
    - she speaks it (and italian!) :) why? -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:07 2
      - Don't they still have five-dollar-a-day daycare in Quebec? -- nm - Mop Oct 24, 12:10 1
        
        they might. quebec is way more family focussed than ontario i believe. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:11
um, wow -- nm - budice Oct 24, 12:00 5
- Oh, my boss also mentioned be spends $3,000/mo on daycare for his 1yo -- nm - budice Oct 24, 12:01 2
  - honestly, is any kid really worth that much? - pixie fierce Oct 24, 12:03
  - No way. $150 per day? We pay that per week. -- nm - Spawn Oct 24, 12:03
- she has other options of course, but toronto is lacking in good day care spaces and she was just so worried she'd not get a good one. -- nm - Danger Girl Oct 24, 12:00 1
  - at some point it's cheaper not to work. -- nm - loosilu Oct 24, 12:01

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