A parent in charge of their own children can take them anywhere they want to including your house BUT you can only be in charge of 5 children that are not with their parent - ie you as the provider are acting as their parent. Plus of course as of right now you have your own children too. The issue is that when another provider comes over those children are not with a parent and therefore count in your allowable 5 - even if it makes no sense that is the law. What it means is two providers getting together to share a music teacher or magician, etc is illegal even though many do it. After the incident in Ottawa we got information from the ministry which clarified the rules - well actually to the effect of these have always been the rules and now we are going to enforce them.