Oh I hate micro managers ~ if I wanted a 'boss' I would have stayed in the workforce instead of choosing to be self employed!!!!

One of the things I tell parents during the interview as well as in my parent handbook is that 'my philosophy is that you can tell how much fun a child had and what I served at meal time by how dirty they are at the end of the day ~ please do not send children to daycare in their Sunday best because it WILL get stained during explorations. I also do not want to make extra laundry for you so I do not change clothes unless they are WET or become dirty to the point where it would transfer to carpets or furniture otherwise I spot wipe any 'spills' and let them continue on. If you want your child's clothes changed more 'often' than that than please make sure you provide extra clothes in addition to the two sets of emergency clothes I request on my list of what to provide as those are for the wet/soiled with bodily fluid reasons not for just 'spotted some paint or wiped my hands on my shirt at lunch' scenarios.

This business is a learning curve for sure as you meet parents who have more varied values and expectations on what is 'normal' for child rearing .... this is one of the reasons why my parent handbook is gotten so long over the years cause I like to proactive address all these things in 'writing' as well as during interview so that they cannot say later they did not 'know' this was my practice and try to be pissy with me about something .... this way I do not have to deal with micro managers because I have already micro managed how things work here myself right down to ever little detail of the day