Childcare Facilities ... Concerns

[glatt]

You are talking about a place where the kids are dropped off while the parents work out, right? Not a childcare facility in the sense that the parents go to work, and the kids are watched by the same professionals each day?

My friend works a few hours a week at the Y, doing babysitting, to get a free membership. She's a mom, but has no other special skills. She probably had to take a CPR class or something like that.

I think if you go to one of these places and talk to the staff and watch them for a bit, you will quickly get a sense if it is any good or not. I wouldn't expect a highly trained staff paying a lot of attention to your kid with an eye toward the kid's development. They're just gonna watch 'em while you work out.