Daycare providers over their limit

[Judy Trickett]

I don't report anymore. I used to. But now I realize that one, the rules are seriously flawed. What makes a provider in Manitoba less capable than a provider in Ontario? You know? Why can a mother with five kids of her own STILL have five dckids making that TEN kids in her care but another woman with NO kids of her own can still only have five dckids in her care? See? The rules are stupid and asinine and make absolutely NO sense whatsoever.

Not that I go over but seriously.....I have known a few providers in my care who really couldn't (or shouldn't have) handle the five kids they WERE allowed. Meanwhile, I could totally handle and extra one or two kids quite easily.

I can't care about a system that is stupid and doesn't make sense. Besides, most parents can count to five, or whatever small number any province legally allows for home daycare. If the parents don't have a problem with it then who am I to tell them what is and what is not proper daycare for their child?

[jammiesandtea]

I don't report anymore. I used to. But now I realize that one, the rules are seriously flawed. What makes a provider in Manitoba less capable than a provider in Ontario? You know? Why can a mother with five kids of her own STILL have five dckids making that TEN kids in her care but another woman with NO kids of her own can still only have five dckids in her care? See? The rules are stupid and asinine and make absolutely NO sense whatsoever.

Not that I go over but seriously.....I have known a few providers in my care who really couldn't (or shouldn't have) handle the five kids they WERE allowed. Meanwhile, I could totally handle and extra one or two kids quite easily.

I can't care about a system that is stupid and doesn't make sense. Besides, most parents can count to five, or whatever small number any province legally allows for home daycare. If the parents don't have a problem with it then who am I to tell them what is and what is not proper daycare for their child?

Yes. I agree with Judy and couldn't say it any better than she did.

I will not break the law and go over ratio personally, but the rules are inconsistent, flawed, and stupid, and unless I know that a provider is warehousing a gazillion kids, I will not go out of my way to help police a rule that is arbitrary and dumb.