MommaL
12-02-2015, 01:15 PM
Since I'm just starting out I have no idea who to provide as references when parents ask. Only my family could speak truthfully and in any great depth about my abilities with caring for children and that's through seeing me with my own children or caring for all my nieces and nephews and younger cousins. I have friends that could talk about my personal character, but don't see me much with kids other than the occasional play date. And my former colleagues can only speak to my work ethic. It's been too way many years to use the families that I once babysat as a teenager. I don't even know where most of them are anymore. Any suggestions? Who did you use as references when you first opened your daycare (assuming that you didn't have previous experience in a daycare setting)?