In fairness to the parents when they first place the baby in homecare that is what they want as they have turned down centre care at that point and are interviewing for homecare. As the child gets older and they meet other people whose kids are in daycare centres and they start to wonder if they should do the same thing. Parents do want their babies in homecare but most also question if they are holding their older child back by not having them in a daycare centre ie toddler school.

Mostly any time I have had a child leave parents have admitted to having the child's name on a wait list since before they started in my care or had put child's name on list two years before JK hoping to have a space by schooltime having been told the wait list was about 2 years long only to get in after a year of waiting.

And yes there will also be the ones that completely outright lied telling us what they thought we wanted to hear because they were desperate for the daycare space in our home.

I find I have such a turnover due to maternity leave that daycare centre issues rarely surface because first child leaves by age 2 and most wait to get into centre till child can move to the older age group as it is easier to get in and costs less than infant care.