Spouse unsure about home daycare

[Inspired by Reggio]

I agree that I would sit him down and have a heart to heart about the pros and cons and try to get him seeing the 'benefits' of this option .... because it DOES have lots of benefits but you need an action plan for the CONS because there are those too .... however if you cannot get him on board focused on the BENEFITS I personally would have to seriously reconsider because the cons will easily consume your relationship with your family and roll over into the business

I am not sure I could do this without my families support - it takes a LOT of sacrifice on the part of the family to operate a home based business specially of CHILDCARE where you are inviting other peoples children into your home and space and sharing all that with them ... you need to be able to stay focused on the benefits and work through the cons TOGETHER!

My spouse has always CLAIMED to have been supportive and initially this was HIS idea for me to do this to find some work life balance for my health while still bringing an income and so forth and even still knowing full well what he was going to be dealing with cause I laid it all out on the line before hand because having come from 'centre' care I had an idea about how other peoples kids or other parents could BE there are times when he gets 'venting' about aspects of this business which stresses me out and makes me feel unsupported ... clients parked in his spot when he gets home from work is a big one - he gets down right pissy not just with me but with them for not parking on the road, he has no tolerance for children who repeatedly 'misbehave' for their parents and will get on me to 'terminate those people' cause he does not know how I can stand it - but in reality they are 'out of the house' when it is happening so I am not 'dealing' with it but he sees it as he is coming 'home' from work - he nearly lost it on one kid who constantly kicked snow back onto the freshly shoveled path this past winter, when he is under the weather and stays home and I am still working he gets 'testy' about having to be quiet at nap time or not being able to watch a movie when we are 'in ear shot' and so forth ... there are a few clients I have that while I can manage their personality he is constantly telling me to 'terminate them' because he cannot stand either the mother or the daughter personality ... and this is someone who was ON BOARD with me doing this - cannot imagine how bad it would be if he'd been against it and I had gone ahead and done it anyway

Good luck hon - hope you can bring him around!!