Here in Ontario with the new ELECT program they are encouraging it's use in home daycare as well - agency homes will be required to use it and privately it will be our choice but it includes screening the children according to a developmental checklist such as the Nippising Screening test and reporting to parents if we see discrepancies. Now in theory this is what is supposed to happen and in a school or daycare centre where the director deals with the parents I can see it but I see a lot of chance for turmoil in home daycare if we start telling parents the results. That doesn't mean it isn't a good idea to do the screening for our own benefit to know where the child is at and what skills they need to work on. There is nothing wrong with screening - testing if a child knows their shapes or can jump over a rope is what we do all the time to plan curriculum. The screening device just lets us know what they should be doing.