Report a Daycare Home?

[Judy Trickett]

They have numbers set so that each child gets the right amount of attention... accidents start happening if there are too many kids and only one adult to run interference. Mine ranged in ages and hving the 6 was good. I cant imagine if I had, had more in my house than that.

I actually disgree with this. I think that numbers (within reason) have nothing to do with quality of care. I think what each provider can handle has a human ability element to it. One provider might be able to successfully manage 8 kids while another can't manage more than 3 or 4. Just look at parents who can not seem to manage TWO kids!!

I think a lot of the numbers regulations are stupid. For example, here in Ontario you can have five kids PLUS your own. So, it doesn't matter if you have one child of your own or ten children of your own you can still have FIVE dckids.

So, for example, when I first started daycare my OWN kids were very, very young so, essentially I was "caring" for seven kids every day. Now that my own kids are older and do not require my care I can still only have five kids??? I think I have proven that I am fully capable of handling and managing 7 kids. Or, what about my provider friend who has FOUR kids of her own and when they were young basically had NINE kids??

See why I think the laws are flawed and stupid? They don't make sense and I can tell you from my own experience and that of close provider friends with their OWN kids (who were young at one time and IN the provider's daycare) that the number of kids really has NO impact on quality of care (again, within reason).

I honestly believe I could easily manage 8 kids on my own. I have more than two brain cells to rub together. I know I could never manage more than two "under 18 mth olds" at once with 6 other kids in care so I have the common sense to figure out what I can and can not handle with respect to numbers and ages of kids. And it won't matter how much you regulate numbers common sense and ability can NOT be regulated.

Quality PROVIDERS offer quality care - not just some arbitrary regulation set by some (likely) MEN who sit around board rooms who have changed nary a diaper in their days.

I'm not saying anyone should knowingly break the law. I'm just saying that the law is flawed and numbers do not equate quality or incidence of accidents etc.

There are recent cases of 'providers' who have had only one or two kids in their care and one of those kids dying while in daycare. It isn't about numbers. It's about ability and quality.