All children not with a parent count as your daycare children if they are at your house. That means if they total more than 5 in Ontario then you are considered to be operating an illegal over-ration daycare and would require a daycare centre license for that many kids.

It is one of those things where there is no way to find a happy medium without potential for rules to be broken so they made it too rigid.

The annoying thing is you can have as many moms on mat leave over as you want with all their babies and older kids but not one mom and her child and a daycare child.