I liked having choices when my son was young enough for daycare. Did I want him in a center? A montessori type place? A home daycare? Male provider? Female provider? Curriculum or just play?

We ended up choosing a play-based home daycare with a male daycare provider who was really active (walked to parks every day).

Oddly, this is not close to the home daycare I opened. I wanted to teach a curriculum- but that's mostly for my benefit, so I can get some use out of an otherwise useless teaching degree.

But the point is...I had choices. Things shouldn't be so cookie cutter. I feel it soon will be so standardized, every daycare will be the same.

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