Market place program

[momofnerds]

I watched it and I found some things really wierd.
first was the comment that parents don't have no choice.----really, there are so many daycares out there its crazy. Its not that parents don't have a choice, the problem is that parents don't want to pay the money for people to watch their children and they want their children to be in daycares up to 12 hours a day.

second was the fact that the first house they went to, had to be staged, because really who would send their child there and pay 200 dollars a week for care in that house. I found it odd that they wrote the words at the bottom of the screen, the lady wasn't hard to understand. I think they wanted to make a point on how stupid maybe we are because she said "991"

3.the ministry of education said that they had almost 800 calls last year, but how many of those calls were made from disgruntle parents and neighbours who wanted to cause problem. I bet you more than half were legal in their limit and had wonderful daycares (I have a neighbour who wants to cause problems for me)

4.the one that had the older boys leaving the house and the child was upstairs. that was poor research, because when my older kids are home, some of the littles go upstairs with my kids because thats where all the cool toys are and I bet you that what was happening here too. And the lady said that the kids have the "run of the house" well isn't it the whole reason why its called home daycares.

5.the store front daycare, I'm not sure about this one, I did find it odd that the husband was moving the kids from one daycare to another.

6.this one was a big one for me, its the couple who lost their son. The mom said that when she asked about the outings the provider didn't know anything about outings (or something like that) then mom goes on to say that she did know that her child was going to this other providers house. Then she goes on to say that only use providers who have drop in policies---really because I find it kinda of ridiculous that this is how you should choose a provider.

another thing is, that I don't understand why the provider didn't have a gate on the stairs and a fence around the pool. This whole story seems so wierd to me. I own a pool, with a gate, a fence around it and a alarm---even my own children can't get in unless they climb a fence and scale the gate. I don't understand how a child climbed the stairs and stood on the deck and jumped in and no one saw it, not even a child (children are more observant than adults sometimes) this is what the mom said. then the mom said that they did this often, so she was aware of what was going on. Like I said, this one bothered me alot.

I found it weird that when they went into these providers home, all they asked was how many kids and if they had first aid and police clearance, and then they go on to tell the viewers that they need to ask the right questions, because really, they didn't ask any questions. Why didn't they ask about cirriculum, outings, tax reciepts, contracts, payments, hours, ....