Home daycare with 12 kids

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I think too what it comes down to is a parent learns to manage multiple ages of kids when she cares for her own kids and sets her home up accordingly with the appropriate age toys, equipment, and presumably the more kids she has the bigger a house she has - hence more play space. It then becomes easier for her to integrate extra children into what she is already doing having gone through the teething, when a child is about to walk or start climbing stairs, etc. so ahead in recognizing safety issues then it is for someone with no kids and maybe some book learning from a course or two.

Yes some moms are frazzled with just their own kids but others thrive on it. I am one of those mom to 4 of my own and always had 5 daycare.