Interviews

[Momof4]

I had some other home daycare providers ask me if they would like them to come over so I could practice an interview with them but I said no because I figured I wouldn't be able to do it without giggling all the way through anyway. I was having a really hard time with interviews last year and getting frustrated. However, thinking back on it, it wasn't me it was the families coming in for interviews. I had one woman who wanted to know how I cleaned my house, why I had plastic toys and so on. I had one woman with a clipboard filled with questions and her husband never said a word and looked like he was afraid of her. I had a woman who told lies and tripped herself up during the interview. Do you see what I'm saying? I did NOT want those families!

Keep interviewing and you will find the right families. Practice definitely makes perfect but I sit down and breathe deeply before an interview and calm myself and I've done so many now that I'm in my 5th year that it's second nature. Give yourself a peptalk before every interview and relax. Baking cookies or warming cinnamon buns so your house smells awesome just before the interview is a good trick too, hehe.

You can do this, just have confidence.