Most daycare centers in Brookline and elsewhere around the country are set up to provide full-time daycare for children. While this is wonderful for working parents that are employed full-time, enrolling a child in full-time daycare often poses a dilemma for parents that work part time and want to spend their time off with their child. It’s also not the preferred option for stay at home parents that want to enroll their toddler or preschooler in a preschool, daycare center, child care program near or in Brookline for the socialization aspects it provides.
That’s why sharing daycare slots, which is modeled after job-sharing where two employees share the same position but work a part-time schedule on different days of the week, is becoming an increasingly popular—and available–alternative for parents at Brookline area daycare centers. Typically children must be the same age and schedules must not overlap.
While many daycare centers do not allow sharing daycare slots, many do and for both parents and children provides many benefits including saving money on tuition costs, increased flexibility in coordinating child’s schooling with the family schedule (particularly if there are siblings). Sharing a daycare slot in a Brookline childcare program is also a good option for children who are not quite ready for a full time “school” environment.
