Motivation for running privately?

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Ya I understand the timing is fishy, it is just that the program influenced my project. The class is Organization and Administration and the project is Advocacy and I am advocating for regulated childcare. I just want to hear and better understand the other side. I am not against private day home I am for quality, high standards of care for young children. I feel like the program was leaving out a lot of information. I know some private day homes and in no way are they trying to provide mediocre care. I really just want to know and share the whole story.

PS- I am from Alberta but insight from any province would help.

Hi Teagles! Sorry for the skepticism. Great topic for an assignment, by the way!

My reasons are pretty much the same as others noted by other providers. I found, working in daycare centres, that the staff were often unhappy. It's a stressful job, in a daycare setting, with poor pay and high expectations and not a tremendous amount of support. I found the women I worked with, though I have the utmost respect for all of them, were (on occasion) catty. I can hardly blame them. We always had students coming in for placement, but often were not placed in the appropriate way. When I was head teacher in the Junior Preschool Room, I had a student working under me, though I've no idea why. I had 2 assistants. She was direly needed in the Senior Room, and the result was a great deal of resentment toward me from the head teacher in that room. I didn't like how children were shuffled around to balance ratios (without parental knowledge). I felt the schedule was too inflexible for little ones. I'm a firm believer that a more casual approach is better for children. If we want to scrap the day's planned activities in favour of baking cookies, then that's what we do. It's lovely

My biggest factor (aside from the above mentioned) was a little more personal. I grew up with my Mom being home all the time. I never had to stay in a sick room, go outside to play for the required 2 hours if I wasn't feeling up to par and I always, always had 'my mummy' whenever I wanted. In one of my placements, there was a 3 yr old girl who spiked a fever of 102 during nap. Staff couldn't reach her parents so she was bundled up and forced to go outside feeling like a big bag of poo. At my daycare, if someone's feeling crummy, they get to cuddle up with a furry blanket and be cozy. I realize that kids need to go to daycare as parents need to earn a living. I wanted to offer children the next best thing; a place where they can have 'a mummy' substitute and a place that feels at least almost, like home. I want the kiddies to have a little taste of what I had. I'm not mum by any stretch, but I want to give them the closest to it that I can.

And for the record, I'm also in favour of regulation, but not as it stands now. The home daycare industry needs to have individual licensing rights and regulations that are more realistic and reasonable for our different style of care. I believe it's unreasonable for a home daycare to be held to the same restrictions as a large institution. We simply can't do some of the things they do such as install child sized toilets, age restrictions, etc. There needs to be a little more common sense applied.