Heretofore unrrealized advantages of home-based daycare over institutional daycare (from a former die-hard institutional daycare supporter, currently softening on the idea of home-based)
- No catch-all anti-nuts policy. Peanut butter sandwiches may be an option again!
- Ability of daycare provider to reject applicants that are too aggressive, rowdy, or would otherwise make life difficult for the other small people. Institutional daycares don't turn away kids just because they're too much of a handful. Home-based daycares can exercise this option. Sucks for parents of harder-to-handle kids but works great for me. My little guy happens to be of the gentler variety of 2.5-year-old boy and I'd kind of like to keep it that way. I feel no need for him to toughen up at this tender age.
- No rules against bringing toys and/or books from home. At the institutional daycares I'm familiar with, there's usually some sort of "one stuffy at a time" policy. I like the idea of being able to say to the Deetman "Sure you can take all of your new library books to daycare today. No problem!"
- Less parent participation in the form of once-a-month "parties" to celebrate some event. I'm not opposed to this on principle but woe is the parent who just can't get off work two hours early on February 14th for they shall have a sad little friend to take home that day who watched all the other mommies and daddies sit and eat red cupcakes for twenty minutes while their parents were nowhere to be found.
- No Jump-Rope-for-Heart. Hoorah!
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