What would you do if you didn't do daycare anymore?

[dodge__driver11]

I am working on my msters starting in January, gonna be a long road as I still have 2 years to go for my degree first. I am going to do daycare until my son is old enough to "be alone" around 14 or so, then go back to the workforce, so I got at least 10 years LOL.

[Errbear]

I started to feel burn out about 8 months ago. The mothers I interviewed seemed to be telling me what they thought I wanted to hear instead of the truth so I was learning that our parenting styles, discipline techniques, and pretty much everything else were polar opposites. It made me dread opening my door every day

One in particular would blow sunshine up my butt to my face and then go home and jump on the local forum here and slam me to whomever would listen....Like I wouldn't know it was me she was talking about. She was a total Sybil. Her daughter was a sassy little slugger when she started with me, but of course it was everyone else's fault why her daughter was a bully. She also thought her little girl was more advanced then she really was, when in reality she was just a mean little girl with a sassy attitude and mean ability to ignore rules and consequences. Somehow that was my fault. The day she told me her little girl was going to a centre was the also the day she was going to be term'd by me so it totally worked out. I've kept my one part timer and will have his sister when she turns one next year, but it's only 3 days a week. No more burn out

I became a Zumba® Fitness instructor part time last year and added other specialties like kids classes earlier this year. I'm still self employed(and loving it) and I still get to work with kids(and loving it more than daycare) and I have more time to devote to just my own kids and to building my new business.