sunnydays....that is another reason I switched too. I have a hard time choosing if 2 or 3 families are equally a good fit. I than wonder if I made the right choice. This way, I offer the spot if it feels good and I'm not comparing them to others. I don't necessarily let them know I don't have other options though. This way, if I decide not to offer the spot to them I can just say that it's been filled by another family even if it hasn't.

It also depends on how badly I need to fill the spot. The last spot I had open, it was not a mad rush to fill it for financial reasons so I was able to take my time and fill it with a family that I chose because I liked them and not because I had bills to pay.

I accepted a child last year for financial reasons (that sounds terrible!) and it was a mistake!! I wasn't going to terminate because I liked having the money and most of the problems came from the parenting she had but I was super glad when her parents pulled her to put her in ft preschool. If I had done it the way I do now, I wouldn't have offered them the spot but at the time they were the only ones looking.

Right now I have a part time spot open but I'm not in a rush to fill it. Come the end of this month I likely will start the interviewing process again and will do it one at a time again. I have a list of people interested in it so hopefully some of them will still want it when I am ready to fill it.