For your child's safety, please insist on qualifications for providers!

[Rhonda]

I have learnt A LOT from all the other providers. I have learnt how NOT to act around children that parents are trusting me with.[/QUOTE]

Yes I agree that by watching other providers you can learn what type of provider you want to be or what you do or don't want to do with your children. Whether the caregiver has been in daycare 1 year or 20 years.

Please do not bash all caregivers who have been in this business more than 20 years! Or do not assume that they are all too old. A friend of mine and I, both have 20 years experience in the childcare field and we are not even 38 yet, so we are not too old to provide childcare! Plus age is irrelavant, I have seen a caregiver of 50 years old provide better childcare than a 25 year old.

There are all types of caregivers in the world, all with our different philosophies and beliefs. In my eyes some are better than others, but just like there are different types of caregivers there are different types of parents who love the caregivers that I believe aren't so good.

[waterloo day mom]

children expect that when their parents come back, that they will be going home with them. Some older children might understand that they are only here for a visit (I have had 3yr olds pulled out for dr appointments etc) but children under the age of 2 have no grasp of that concept. They get upset and anxious about the fact that their parent(s) have come back and are leaving them.

Would people please stop making assumptions about other providers and their practices. It is honestly just as bad as racism, sexism, etc. To assume that someone cannot do their job because of any reason (age, lack of their own children, race, marital status, etc) is downright narrow minded. I understand that people are simply looking out for their children, but please actually get to know a provider and see them with the children in their care before you make assumptions and discredit them. Judgements based on stereotypes are wrong.