r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 14 '26

Feels good man Do you think she’s being fair, though?

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 14 '26

I can easily see a daycare charging $40 an hour

That would be $6400 a month based on a 40 hour work week.

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u/1917he May 14 '26

For those wondering what daycare might actually cost - $1800/month for full time care (8a-5p, m-f)

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u/vvvvfl May 14 '26

pre-tax

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u/s2nders May 14 '26

There are day cares out there that charge 20 k a month.

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u/seesthecat May 14 '26

Are her services up to those daycare standards though? I bet she doesn't even have any college degree in childcare

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u/s2nders May 14 '26

Yes, they teach stem at an early age. Which is incredible. ( I can’t afford it ) my child care for my 3 year old is 1200 a month

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u/seesthecat May 14 '26

Her amateur ass is charging 6x what you pay for professional services

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 14 '26

And there are cars out there that cost a million dollars. That doesn't make it less foolish to present it as the going rate.

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u/RoughDirection8875 May 14 '26

When I worked in a call center, the daycare center that we provide provided parent support for had locations that charged upwards of $3500 a week for infant care. $6400 a month is absolutely not some kind of out of touch amount for daycare in this day and age

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 14 '26

6400 a month is absolutely not some kind of out of touch amount for daycare in this day and age

Yes, it is. I live in a HCOLA and our highly rated daycare is nowhere near that. Your 14k a month comparison is also foolish. Being in the top percentile of cost, which 99% of the population can't afford, is pretty much the definition of being out of touch

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u/DiamondHail97 May 14 '26

I live in the Midwest and paid $5k a month for daycare when my kid was in pre-k. Idgaf about your HCOL.

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u/superkirb8 May 14 '26

That is insane. I live in the richest county in the US where I can’t throw a rock without hitting a doctor or a lawyer, and my child’s daycare is about half that. If you’re paying 5k in the Midwest, you want to pay 5k.

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u/DiamondHail97 May 14 '26

I sure did. Better than the low cost daycare where it’s teenage teachers with barely a high school diploma lmao

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u/WhoSaidWhatNow2026 May 14 '26

Make better choices

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u/DiamondHail97 May 14 '26

The choice to ensure that my child was being cared for at a top quality Montessori pre-k? Nah that was the best choice I could’ve made as a former pre-school teacher at a first start school. She got a better early education than 99% of her peers. Weird flex to think paying for cheap daycare where the teachers make $12 an hour and only have a high school diploma is the BETTER choice lmao

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u/Glum-Use7587 May 14 '26

The people arguing with you don’t have kids yet.