Reporting a Home Daycare

[Inspired by Reggio]

I agree with Jazmic - that the laws are the laws ... being over ratio is illegal and it also means that they are operating without proper insurance in the event of an accident.... it does not matter who capable a person is or how 'stupid' you might think the rules are ... we are a society that has 'rules and consequences' for a reason - to maintain decorum and if we are start just doing our own thing you have anarchy before long

However one does need to make sure that they are TRULY illegal cause in some provinces the laws are STUPID and make it hard to know if someone is illegal or not ... for example in Ontario if you are operating a program through a 'licensed agency' you can only have 5 children including your own and there are even limits on the AGES of those 5 children HOWEVER if you operate a 'private home daycare' you are allowed to have 5 children between 0-10 years of age PLUS your own .... so if you see someone walking down the street with 8 children and they are all under 5 years of age your first thought might be 'wow that must be illegal' however if in reality 3 are the providers OWN children she is not illegal and it is up to the parents to choose if they are comfortable with that many children in care and that age mix and so forth! On the flipside none of the children could be hers and she could be totally illegal and just not know the rules or not CARE because to her they do not make sense cause what difference does it make if any of them are her children or not?

My point being is that depending on the rules for your province it is very HARD for JOE PUBLIC to know the difference between illegal and legal care based solely on the ####'s ... you have to know the provider and her circumstances and if she is private or licensed and so forth.

Hard call - ultimately you have to do what feels right in your own soul ... I am one who if I KNEW would have to report because if something happened I could not live with myself after the fact ... and if your doing it with good intentions and are 'wrong' better to air on side of caution than for society to keep turning a 'blind eye' so to speak!

And for those in society who do not agree with the rules of our government - we advocate to CHANGE THEM we do not just IGNORE THEM