Island29, thanks for responding to the thread, we appreciate your opinion. Typically, only home daycare providers use this forum but parents are welcome and it would be very helpful to all of us if more parents would give their honest opinions as you did.

All daycare providers are different, we all live in different places and have different philosophies about what is good for children in regard to travelling, exercise, exploring and teaching inside and outside, etc. That's why I said in my post that it's important for parents to find out how the daycare runs, for example if they travel or not, before the interview, so time isn't wasted. There are so many different things to talk about when you are searching for the perfect daycare match for your family. This is just one area.