This is related so bear with me...

I was at the salon on Saturday morning having a makeup application. The lady doing it was asking what I did and so we started talking as she has her 2yr old with a home daycare provider. I was talking about all the changes and she was very surprised at the current law being max 5 kids and explained that her provider has 7 all at once and I clarified that they were all under 10. When I explained that her daycare was not only ILLEGAL but also most certainly UNINSURED, she just said, "Oh but I love my provider and she has been doing this for years." OMG I almost choked and had it not been for the other people there, I probably would have told her flat out what an effin disgrace she was.

Oh there's more....

I talked about the new ratio for 2 under 2 in the new act and we talked about how that's not even the ratio in centre care and that I was not 100% sure what the ratio was in centres but I thought it was 1 to 3 and the client behind me piped in that this was correct, as she is an ECE working in a centre. We were talking about how awful the news was about the death of the child in Vaughan and this cheeky cow proceeded to tell everyone in the room how this happens ALL THE TIME in UNLICENSED settings. Well I had to use everything I had to contain my rage. I immediately said that that was complete nonsense and that these incidents are tragic but extremely rare. I really got her told, I was so annoyed. If I thought I could have kept my wits about me I would have reminded her that it wasn't that long ago that the media were reporting a license daycare centre where the staff held the children down at naptime, but I had to calm myself down so I didn't start shouting at this bitch.

I was infuriated enough by the woman who dismissed legitimate reasons to report her provider and seek legal and fully insured childcare, but then to have this flipping woman spewing lies about our industry made me want to actually shut her up with my fist. I was sat with clenched fists and shaking I was so angry. The slanderous people out their badmouthing our industry should not be allowed to get away with spreading lies to innocent people. It is hard enough for parents to leave their children as it is without having these false horror stories in their heads by morons.

Rant over!