You are so right dragonlady3. My husband thinks it is the government's way of controlling this area and the children. But, we know that the government has failed at trying to run businesses.

The children's advocacy group and the ECE's of BC want the government to start a tax payer funded day care program with hub centers. They want the centers to be run by ECE's and they are proposing that there be ECE's in kindergarten, grade 1 and grade 2--to help the teachers. We have already cut music, PE (gym), choir, and a lot of other extra curricular courses from the schools and now they want more cut to implement these programs.

I attended a meeting regarding taxpayer funded daycare and I took an armfull of printouts about allegations, investigations and charges in centre based daycares. I too, had a hard time finding many charges with in home day care.

I have operated my licensed daycare for 15 years and I run a preschool type program, with music and movement, science, arts & crafts, circle time, story time and theme weeks. I am not an ECE but a Mom that has seen the benefits in children's lives after being in a family day care. We are more flexible, there is more one on one time with the little ones, parents only have to deal with the person responsible for care not the manager, the parents only have one person to build trust in not the many that make up the care at the centres. Some children in our area do not even know the names of their caregivers in a centre because there are so many that look after them.

Family day care is just that, a loving family environment. As we all know there is no place like home.