Please put me at ease...

[Blackcat3168]

If your husband isn't providing the care, then I wouldn't do it.

Would they be willing to provide YOU with one? Would they agree to a police check on themselves....after all you are allowing them to come into your home.

[2cuteboys]

It was one of my agency's requirements that my husband have one.

I would if a parent asked and were willing to pay for it. He's occasionally around and not that he's ever alone with the kids when he is, but if the parents would feel more comfortable if he had one it's fine by me. I'd rather that than a parent see him home one day and get weirded out and ask their kids probing questions.

[bright sparks]

If your husband isn't providing the care, then I wouldn't do it.

Would they be willing to provide YOU with one? Would they agree to a police check on themselves....after all you are allowing them to come into your home.

Why would they need to provide me with a police check? I am not leaving my children in their care or having them around any of the children so it's not comparable. My husband lives here and is someone who is regularly around their child, although not so munch recently with long work hours, so of course they would want some kind off security and piece of mind with regards to who their child will be in the company of on a regular basis when they are not present. Obviously the police check can be out of date and be ineffective in my opinion but at least if up to date can be helpful in determining someone's history. I allow the child into my home not the parents. They come in one time for an interview, after that they do not get past my hallway, EVER!

To decline the request of the parent is to imply in their minds that I or we have something to hide. Have you ever had a child in daycare Blackcat? I have had both of my children in care years ago and it was something that reassured me although it was much more efficient where I am from, as there was a reference number attached to every individual and whenever there was an incident involving the police it would automatically be recorded on your back ground check and anyone with this number could call up and get up to date background check info. I am pretty sure that if I gave the response you described, that it would be a deal breaker and a red flag for them and a very slim chance that they would leave their child with me.

[bright sparks]

It was one of my agency's requirements that my husband have one.

I would if a parent asked and were willing to pay for it. He's occasionally around and not that he's ever alone with the kids when he is, but if the parents would feel more comfortable if he had one it's fine by me. I'd rather that than a parent see him home one day and get weirded out and ask their kids probing questions.

I'm right their with you. This is my husbands home also and he shouldn't have to walk around in the background or shadows for fear of how e will be rice ex by dcp's but at the same time it's not okay for a parent to feel uncomfortable around my family members if their is something they can do to calm these concerns. It's not like a clearance certificate has any personal info on it either. It just says no incident recorded and his name and home address so it's not like it includes anything you would want to keep from someone. If someone declined to oblige my request for a police check if I was in the opposite role, I would end the interview right there and then, as clearly they have no respect for my need to be reassured as a parent leaving my most treasured thing in life, MY CHILD, in the care of complete strangers.

[MonkeyPrincess]

Quote Originally Posted by mimi:
As for you? You are busy running a daycare, who has the time to commit a felony? LOL

OMG ahaha! So true LOL

[Blackcat3168]

Why would they need to provide me with a police check? I am not leaving my children in their care or having them around any of the children so it's not comparable. My husband lives here and is someone who is regularly around their child, although not so munch recently with long work hours, so of course they would want some kind off security and piece of mind with regards to who their child will be in the company of on a regular basis when they are not present. Obviously the police check can be out of date and be ineffective in my opinion but at least if up to date can be helpful in determining someone's history. I allow the child into my home not the parents. They come in one time for an interview, after that they do not get past my hallway, EVER!

To decline the request of the parent is to imply in their minds that I or we have something to hide. Have you ever had a child in daycare Blackcat? I have had both of my children in care years ago and it was something that reassured me although it was much more efficient where I am from, as there was a reference number attached to every individual and whenever there was an incident involving the police it would automatically be recorded on your back ground check and anyone with this number could call up and get up to date background check info. I am pretty sure that if I gave the response you described, that it would be a deal breaker and a red flag for them and a very slim chance that they would leave their child with me.

Yes, I have had child in child care. In both a center and a family child care.

I am in the U.S. so obviously things work very differently here than they do there and as a licensed provider, I have one background check done by my licensing agency BEFORE I am allowed to even care for kids. This background check includes ALL members of my family over the age of 13. This check is re-done every two years at the time of my license re-newal.

Parents in my state can not request additional background check on me or anyone in my family any more than I have the right to ask them for one.

Also, child care homes are all set up differently and many providers allow their clients into their homes (past the hallway) and even as far as staying and interacting with other kids so I was not aware of how your home was set up and that you don't allow your parents in very far.

I'm sorry my advice wasn't helpful and my opinion not useful to you.

[bright sparks]

It's definitely useful to learn that you are in the States. On this forum you will find the majority are from Ontario, and most others across Canada. I think you are only the third US provider I have come across on this forum since joining 2 1/2 years ago when the forum got up and running. I can only speak for Ontario providers, not other provinces, but there is no licensing in our province so there is no pre screening that is mandatory unless you sign up with an agency which is from my impression little more than a referral agent providing a dcp with more restrictions and issues than help. It would be helpful if your location was posted, as Playfelt requests on a regular basis, as in cases like this it's quick for people to assume a poster is from Canada as this is a Canadian forum and is aware of the laws and regulations and if we new otherwise then we could respond and comment more accordingly.

[Blackcat3168]

It's definitely useful to learn that you are in the States. On this forum you will find the majority are from Ontario, and most others across Canada. I think you are only the third US provider I have come across on this forum since joining 2 1/2 years ago when the forum got up and running. I can only speak for Ontario providers, not other provinces, but there is no licensing in our province so there is no pre screening that is mandatory unless you sign up with an agency which is from my impression little more than a referral agent providing a dcp with more restrictions and issues than help. It would be helpful if your location was posted, as Playfelt requests on a regular basis, as in cases like this it's quick for people to assume a poster is from Canada as this is a Canadian forum and is aware of the laws and regulations and if we new otherwise then we could respond and comment more accordingly.

Makes sense.
I didn't realize that there were so few members here from the US.
I didn't see where/how I could edit my profile to state where I was from but I think I figured it out now.