![]() Usually, it’s new moms - rather than new dads - who adjust their careers. It feels like nobody is doing anything for the families who live here all year,” she says. Siblings of children already in a program have priority, says the mother, who works at home part-time while her husband works full-time. Now two years old, the toddler is number 38. Even this, she says, “is crazy.” One mother who declined to be identified says her newborn was number 43 on the waitlist at the only childcare center in her area. Factoring in multiple sign-ups, she estimates that the real number of applicants is about half. “Everyone gets on all the lists they can.”Īt Blue Lake Preschool, with locations in Carbondale and El Jebel, the number of applicants is 541, says Executive Director Michelle Oger. ![]() She says that while the Honey Tree list is verified, duplicate applications make most waitlists inaccurate. ![]() At Honey Tree, Beal says 53 families have signed up for nine openings that will become available in June, for the care of infants between the ages of about six weeks and 12 months. “People hear through the grapevine that the moment they know they are pregnant they must get on a waitlist,” says Kelly Beal, co-owner of Honey Tree Childcare, a licensed facility in Carbondale. After receiving their joyful news, parents expecting their first baby are initiated into another fact of life: there’s a waitlist at every licensed early childcare center between Parachute and Aspen.
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