What to Know
In a perfect world, we would all be millionaires and stay home with our children until they are of age to start school. Unfortunately, that’s not the real world for most of us. And for even more of us, day care, or at least home daycares, are a necessity. But when a mom posted on X (formerly Twitter) that none of her kids have gone to daycare and she would go broke to make sure things stay that way, there was a lively debate in response.
A lot of other parents shared Sarah’s ideas about keeping kids home and finding a work schedule that enables a parent to be at home so they don’t need to use a daycare center at all. Some even went as far as to claim that daycare centers are “raising” other people’s kids. Alright, that’s a little much. Some working parents popped in to reply to the X post and share their side of things, but they were a bit drowned out by the anti-daycare parents, of which there are apparently droves.
Apparently, some parents are severely against day care.
None of my children have ever spent a single day in daycare and I don’t care if I end up eating beans and counting coupons to keep it that way. pic.twitter.com/GitbAN8IGr
— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) February 21, 2026
In Sarah’s X post, she shared a video compilation of emotional kids being picked up by their parents at day care. The running theme is that the kids had a tough day at day care, away from home and away from their parents all day long.
“None of my children have ever spent a single day in day care and I don’t care if I end up eating beans and counting coupons to keep it that way,” Sarah wrote in her post.
The video in her post is about the first day of day care specifically, to be honest. And most kids who start preschool or kindergarten might have similarly high emotions on the first day of school. But for Sarah, this is a clear example of why day care doesn’t work, at least for her family.
When someone responded to her post to say that she is judgmental, Sarah fired back, “Notice I said MY kids. You’re free to do what you want with your own. Throwing children in day care so you can both progress financially, in my opinion, is selfish. Children need a mother. And I stand on business when I say that.”
But there were a lot of people in agreement with Sarah’s opinion of day care.
“Babies need their mommas home,” a mom responded to the X post. “No reason for them to be sent to day cares. Dads provide, moms stay home. Even if it’s living cheaply. It’s possible!” That wasn’t really the point of the post, but apparently, this mom is 100 percent behind the anti-day care train.
Someone else wrote, “This is the way. Outsourcing motherhood is humanity’s greatest betrayal.”
Again, that’s not really what’s happening here. If two parents need to work to make ends meet, then daycare is a necessity. If a single parent needs to work to, oh I don’t know, help their family survive, then daycare it is. But a lot of the parents who spoke out against using daycare centers don’t feel that way.
“You’ll never remember how poor you were because you stayed home with your baby,” a mom shared in response to the post. “But you’ll always remember the years you had together. You can’t get this time back. Little children need their mothers.”
One mom who did use daycare for her kids at one point commented, “I did when I didn’t have a choice. Changed a lot of things to never do it again.”
I mean, I get it, I do. I used a daycare center once for one of my kids and had a pretty terrible experience. I was able to find a home daycare that was much more trustworthy and amazing, and the rest is history. For some parents, though, daycare is unavoidable.
