When we open a home daycare we open a business in our home and need to treat it and our clients as such. Whether you have children of your own or not you would run your business a certain way, have certain expectations for the children and consequences for not following those expectations.

During daycare hours our own children become one of the group and are expected to act accordingly. My own kids grew up with two rule systems - daycare rules and familytime rules just as our daycare children can live under our rules at care and their family rules at home evenings and weekends.

Another option is to consider separate play areas using the large play yards with 6-8 sections to divide the room into three places and then the children accordingly into two places and it may mean daycare kids in one and your daughter in the other - the third area is for you. Your job is to supervise both play areas not to play in either one.

Children become social at different rates too. By the time your child is 2 2/1 that will make the others in care 2-3 years old. If you are still experiencing problems and nothing we have said here today has worked - please try some of the suggestions and not just make excuses - then you may need to seek professional help for your daughter to find out what it is about being social that she does not enjoy. There are children with special needs that do not have the capacity to grasp what it means to be a friend.