Cannon day care - very disappointing

[Puck it]

Anyone have any experiences with Cannon child care since this post? I am currently debating whether or not to buy a season pass this year (or whether I'll even be able to ski at all really), and without on mountain childcare it's not happening so I'd be curious to hear some feedback....

leave the kid home with a babysitter

 

[timm]

Not really an option unfortunately.

 

[Puck it]

Not really an option unfortunately.

High school or college kid? Where do you live? My daughter watches kids on her days off from college.

 

[Savemeasammy]

High school or college kid? Where do you live? My daughter watches kids on her days off from college.

Better yet, is she willing to spend her days off on the magic carpet with little kids?!


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[Puck it]

Better yet, is she willing to spend her days off on the magic carpet with little kids?!


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If you pay her maybe.

 

[timm]

There's a couple reasons I don't think it will work...

Leaving him at home with a sitter is going to be paying for about four more hours of care per day and probably end up costing substantially more -- you can get a season pass to Cannon child care for about $700. That's probably about five or six days of babysitting.

The other reason is a major appeal of the on mountain daycare is my non-skiing wife can have some time to herself at home. Leaving him home with a babysitter is not going to accomplish that, even if it was financially practical. Plus I can justify it better if he's at least spending the travel and any overnights with me and have the flexibility of him being right there.

 

[Puck it]

There's a couple reasons I don't think it will work...

Leaving him at home with a sitter is going to be paying for about four more hours of care per day and probably end up costing substantially more -- you can get a season pass to Cannon child care for about $700. That's probably about five or six days of babysitting.

The other reason is a major appeal of the on mountain daycare is my non-skiing wife can have some time to herself at home. Leaving him home with a babysitter is not going to accomplish that, even if it was financially practical. Plus I can justify it better if he's at least spending the travel and any overnights with me and have the flexibility of him being right there.

Ok. Why not give your wife a pass on a weekend day to go somewhere and you stay with the kid. Then she reciprocates. Saves $$$

 

[timm]

That's a good suggestion. Let's see how it goes over!

 

[Smellytele]

This is going to be useless because I haven't used Mtn daycare and a long time but I am surprised by this post because when they first built the daycare building at Cannon (2005 or so) we did use it a few times and thought it was one of the best we had used. the place had heated floors from what I remember. They gave reports at the end of the day saying how your kid skied and it was just an overall great experience.
The strangest one was at Attitash. When you put the kid in daycare they would bring them through a door and upstairs and you couldn't even see what the place looked like. They allowed no parents past the counter.

 

[Savemeasammy]

Ok. Why not give your wife a pass on a weekend day to go somewhere and you stay with the kid. Then she reciprocates. Saves $$$

This ^.

One day she will have PLENTY of alone time when you and your kid are skiing together!

I think your wife needs to get into skiing.


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[timm]

This ^.

One day she will have PLENTY of alone time when you and your kid are skiing together!

I think your wife needs to get into skiing.

It's the truth, from the day he was born I (and my father, haha) have been counting down until he can start sliding on snow.

I've tried to get her into skiing but I think living in New England is about as close to being on mountain as she will tolerate :lol:

 

[Puck it]

It's the truth, from the day he was born I (and my father, haha) have been counting down until he can start sliding on snow.

I've tried to get her into skiing but I think living in New England is about as close to being on mountain as she will tolerate :lol:

Word of advice. If I had to do it all over again. I would never put my kids into any organized sports. Parents are just ruining the experience and thier kids.

So, keep the kid sliding in the winter months and find some other atheltic activity to do in the warmer months.

 

[Smellytele]

Word of advice. If I had to do it all over again. I would never put my kids into any organized sports. Parents are just ruining the experience and thier kids.

So, keep the kid sliding in the winter months and find some other atheltic activity to do in the warmer months.

The problem of not getting them into organized sports is that there isn't much else going on because every other kid is doing organized sports. When we were young only a few were doing organized sports so you had some one else to hang with.

 

[drjeff]

There's a couple reasons I don't think it will work...

Leaving him at home with a sitter is going to be paying for about four more hours of care per day and probably end up costing substantially more -- you can get a season pass to Cannon child care for about $700. That's probably about five or six days of babysitting.

The other reason is a major appeal of the on mountain daycare is my non-skiing wife can have some time to herself at home. Leaving him home with a babysitter is not going to accomplish that, even if it was financially practical. Plus I can justify it better if he's at least spending the travel and any overnights with me and have the flexibility of him being right there.

The thing I learned with my kids when my wife and I used the daycare program at Mount Snow (and we had "season passes" for their daycare) is that the 1st time or 2 that you drop them off, especially early season, you're a bit apprehensive both for your child (will they have a good time in a "foreign" environment) and as a parent (who are the care providers and how is this facility run?), the 2nd time you drop your child off, it's "easier" and by the 3rd time, the staff recognizes you and your child and it's just like dropping them off at a daycare facility near your house. Especially with a season's pass for daycare, you'll probably end up fairly quickly recognizing the same parents dropping their kids off both on and off the hill too.

Most mountains, especially ones with a solid weekend volume of traffic, realize the importance (and profit source) of having a very good daycare facility. You, and likely YOUR WIFE, will appreciate it more than not.

And as my wife and I used to jokingly say, "not only will our kids gets exposed to the germs of the kids from where we live in CT, but also to germs from kids all over the Northeast!" ;-) :lol:

 

[drjeff]

The problem of not getting them into organized sports is that there isn't much else going on because every other kid is doing organized sports. When we were young only a few were doing organized sports so you had some one else to hang with.

There are some organized sports though where I'm not sure who derives the most benefit, the kids from participating or the parents from socializing ;-)

I will say though that as a parent, I will admit that I enjoy my kids ski racing season for organized sports as opposed to their spring and fall soccer seasons!

 

[Puck it]

The problem of not getting them into organized sports is that there isn't much else going on because every other kid is doing organized sports. When we were young only a few were doing organized sports so you had some one else to hang with.

And that is the is problem.

 

[drjeff]

Word of advice. If I had to do it all over again. I would never put my kids into any organized sports. Parents are just ruining the experience and thier kids.

So, keep the kid sliding in the winter months and find some other atheltic activity to do in the warmer months.

Agree to some extent - there are certainly some parents, who have no concept of reality and think that their kid, from say age 6 on, are going to be the next mega star at whatever sport their involved in, and they often act as such. Then you've got other parents who just "get it" and realize that as long as their kid is out there, having fun, and getting some exercise, that that's the most important thing. I've got both types of parents on my kids soccer teams right now, and I will admit that the over bearing, unrealistic parents do have me questioning my kids involvement in organized sports....

 

[Puck it]

Agree to some extent - there are certainly some parents, who have no concept of reality and think that their kid, from say age 6 on, are going to be the next mega star at whatever sport their involved in, and they often act as such. Then you've got other parents who just "get it" and realize that as long as their kid is out there, having fun, and getting some exercise, that that's the most important thing. I've got both types of parents on my kids soccer teams right now, and I will admit that the over bearing, unrealistic parents do have me questioning my kids involvement in organized sports....

I agree, but in AAA hockey. It was a majority of parents. The parents were so f'ing cutthroat.

 

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Season passholders can purchase season child care for $709