Best reason to open a daycare

[mamabear]

My reasons are:

I can wear sweats
Be here for my child
Nap (that's #1)
Curl up in my chair when I don't feel good
Not having to drive to work
Having my house clean during the week, and my family's supper cooked and ready
Putting my hair up in a pony tail and not worrying about make up
Sitting on my deck in the summer, with a Coke, while I watch the kids play...maybe that should be #1!

[Play and Learn]

Sitting on my deck in the summer, with a Coke, while I watch the kids play...maybe that should be #1!

Are you sure it's a Coke and not something else?!?! lol j/k!

[mamabear]

Before 5:30 it's coke...but after 5:30 then it's something else

[lilac]

I started my daycare so I could continue to stay home with my children (4 and 5). My husband has been in and out of work for the past couple of years and if I had gone back to work outside the home, my kids would have been in and out of daycare just as my husband was in and out of work (we refused to pay for daycare if one of us is home for whatever reason!)

Not until I actually started doing daycare did I realize so many more benefits!
-My kids LOVE it... they LOVE having their friends around as well as their Mom! (they actually are dissappointed on the weekend when the kids dont come)
-I get to spend the summer outside playing!
-I get to grab my kids and give them a snuggle whenever I want
-I get to wear comfy clothes and running shoes.... and sandles in the summer
-I get to do all sorts of crafts and painting and fun messy stuff.... outside in the summer
-Im my own boss, I dont have to answer to anyone, I can decided my hours, breaks, vacations and I dont have to work for someone who has no appreciation for how hard I work (which was my life before kids)

[Tot-Time]

The most important reason I am home is because I always want to be there for my daughters! My hubby is military and not always home.

I am ECE and worked in a centre for around a year, about 5 years ago. I ABSOLUTELY HATED when my daughter's school would call the office and the director refused to let me know my child was sick and needed to be picked up because she didn't want her office assistant to have to replace me because I left work early!!!!! After a year of working in the centre, we were posted, and I went right back to home daycare, didn't even look for another job in a centre. So my girls remain the most important reason! Gosh what am I going to do in less than 2 years and they are both in high school, can I still use them as my main reason then?

When my girls were little we lived in Petawawa with only 1 vehicle, I loved children, wanted playmates for my children, needed a second income and home daycare seemed like it met what I wanted. I guess in many ways it still does. The only part about home daycare that I don't like is the isolation. I wish we could have a double daycare and I was able to have someone working with me

I love the warmer weather, especially summer when everyone gravitates to the parks and I can socialize more with my friends lol.

[Julie]

I opened my daycare just this year after i had my son. I always wanted to have my own daycare since i could remember i think it's because my mom ran one for 15 years till my brother and i were in high school then she went back to work. I used to be a personal support worker a rewarding job but a crappy just too. Midnights sucked but didn't mind them to much i was a night owl anyways they were better than days to much politics!! After i had my son i started to advertise still need people but they will come i hope.

So i wanted to do this because i wanted to stay home and raise my son and not miss anything he does.
I get weekends off Yay
I can relax during nap time
i can play outside in the summer
no driving YAY
extra money
i get to play with toy and read kids books without looking creepy
and i get to sing and dance even though i look like a freak but no one cares
I can start the day in my pj's and get ready when i have 5 min no one cares just throw my hair up put a bra on and good to go LOL.
And i still need to find out about all the tax benefits but i like that to.