I've had one family ask for a check and they offered to pay for it. I gladly did it and now have it to show other families so it's a good selling point. My husband works evenings so he watched the kids for me so I didn't have to miss work to do so. He has his through his work and it's available for parents to see as well. He's my backup provider so parents like that.

I personally do think they give a false sense of security since they are only good if the person has been caught doing things they shouldn't but it does give some parents a peace of mind. I'm not insulted by it because ( heaven forbid!) if something bad does happen at daycare at least the parents can say they did everything possible in making sure their provider had a clean record. Could you imagine the guilt (and judgements!) a parent would feel and face if their provider was a bad person AND had a bad record that would have showed up had the parent asked!!

Our job is dealing with children in a private setting where no one knows what we do with the children. Many many of us are perfectly safe and trust worthy but a few are not and I think it's perfectly fine for a parent to ask this of us. They wouldn't be doing their job 100% if they didn't IMO.