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[daycaremum]

I have no idea what any of you ladies are talking about!!! I have never locked my front door when I am home (small town), during daycare hours or otherwise. Only when I go to bed at night. I have never had a daycare child go ANYWHERE NEAR the front door and try to exit without permission. My daycare area is not near my front door and my daycare kids are "trained" well enough that they know not to leave the daycare area while I am in the bathroom. And if they ever did leave the daycare room while I was in the bathroom they wouldn't have time to get to the front door, open it and leave before I was back. I just don't live in fear I guess, and I have a very well trained group of kids, always have for the past 13 years. I used to do my daycare in my open concept main floor and the children were only allowed on the carpet of the living room. The rest of the main floor was vinyl. The kids new not to cross the line between the two types of flooring. Yes it took time to teach them, but they are all teachable. My own children also never left the house on their own until they were old enough to do so and still always tell me when they are going outside. This is such a foreign conversation to me. I would also like to state that I am in Ontario Canada, and I do not have to be with a licensed agency, so there are no "rules" about me having my front door locked. I would imagine it is a personal preference type of thing in my area.