Market place program

[mimi]

cfred, that is exactly what I was thinking. There is an underlying resentment to home daycare providers. You work from home, you wear sweats while working, you can make more money than alot of people, you don't have to have a degree to do this work, alot of women would love to do this only they can't really tolerate staying home with children and yes, we earn our living/make a profit on the backs of these sweet children.

What is missing in this is that we work hard to make sure the children we care for have nourishing food, have a stimulating play environment, teach them scholastic basics, deal with diverse personalities, are always trying to balance life/work space in our home, understand children and their needs more than most, must deal with parents and each of their child rearing philosophies, have to forcast our enrollment months ahead, deal with customer departures and run a business while dealing with the isolation of working from home.

I always seem to have daycare on my mind. I was out shopping this weekend and picked up items for Mother's Day and spent an evening looking for craft ideas (and then shopping for these) for St. Patricks Day and yikes, early Easter and wake in the middle of the night trying to solve a daycare issue. So let me turn a profit on the "back of the children" please.