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While I did not have a long waiting time, the main issue was coverage. It was covid time and the nurseries were offering at most 3 days a week (while I was looking a service for 5 days a week). I gradually manage to increment to 4 days and…

Long waiting times at quality day care centers was the primary challenge for me. I have had to reduce my work hours or work late in the night to provide child care in combination with a part time nanny. Also, when the child is sick (which h…

No such issues in Konstanz.

The fact that our parents were available was a big help

I singed my kids up for daycare before they were born as I heard about the long wait lists that happen! Luckily my husband and I both do well so cost was never an issue with childcare. The largest challenge was finding reliable care that my…

I was very fortunate that affordability was never an issue – rather, we had the opposite problem, we would rather have spent less time jockeying for position on waitlists. The biggest challenge is assessing whether a program is good (and go…

The biggest challenge was facing the uncertainty of not knowing if/when the childcare was going to be available.

Quality, luck of flexibility.

Having a child in May 21 implied that a lot of daycares had shut down with the onset of COVID. Finding a daycare in time for starting with work was a pure gamble, there was no choice. I took the first non-private daycare I could find (and l…

Affordability and quality are the main challenges. We moved around the world. :)

Finding the right mix of quality, availability, and affordability has been a leading challenge. Moreover, because of the competitive market, the first dimension on which we have compromised is affordability.

Quality is important. In Hong Kong, kindergarten is linked with elementary schools, which are linked with middle and high schools,

All of those, plus (limited) hours and (unlimited amount of) viruses of childcare centers.

The town we live in has only one childcare center. Luckily they had a spot when we needed it! We had to pay for the first half of the year while I was on leave (when we didn’t need childcare) to ensure our spot, though. Which was expensive!

Affordability

Affordability. To stay close to work, we have to send our child to expensive private schools. We can also move to neighborhoods with good public schools, but that would be far from work.

Cost and hours of availability were our biggest issues. As an academic i had to be the one to leave early since my job had more flexibility but it meant I'd have to make up the time elsewhere

Combination of nanny, preschool, and family. I have three sons, all under 7 years old. Nanny is from 7am-5pm, M-F. She gets sick at times, which causes considerable disruption to our lives. Similar disruptions occur when our kids are sick (…

We did put ourselves on a waitlist but when ended up getting we had already adopted other solutions so we also concluded that its not reliable.

Adjusted work schedule. School was very accommodating.

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