Quote Originally Posted by michellesmunchkins View Post
I agree with all the ladies who say to make sure you get your facts straight! I have my 5 daycare kiddos and my own 6 year old son. The lady next door to me has 4 afterschool daycare kids and my neighbour across the street has a little boy who loves to come over and play on the climber in my yard. To anyone driving by it looks like all those crazy kids are mine...but again, I am only responsible for my own 5 and my own son. The others are there playing, but not my responsibility. So very easy to THINK that I am over my ratios when in reality I am NOT. I would NEVER report someone without 1000000000% proof that the person was legit over their ratios.
As others have said Ontario is really cracking down on home daycare and if a complaint is lodged or something happens there will be consequences issued. Those involved in the drowning situation playdate mainly got off because of the grey area in interpretting the laws in the DNA but since then the ministry has come out and made it very clear what the "rules" are in this area.

Our childcare support association took up the fight and got directly in contact with the ministry to discuss it, gave them petitions for playdates such as caregivers getting together and bringing in a music teacher and sharing the cost. They got a letter back from the ministry saying no to playdates on private property.

The interpretation of the rules and this is more to cover the AXX of the ministry than anything else is that the mom across the street and her son can come and visit any time they want and she is responsible for him. The neighbour next door can not come over and her afterschoolers ever because any kids that are not her own are considered in your care and that puts you over the limit of 5 under 10. And of course we can all see where this makes sense right......well in the ministry eyes it does. Basically no one is responsible for another parent does with their child but them. Any child being cared for by another non parent adult comes under their guidelines and per premise is 5 daycare kids plus your own regardless of how many adults are there.