Quote Originally Posted by MsBell View Post
I want to throw my two cents in too. I agree a little with BrightSparks in this. I actually feel like with all the significant changes in Ontario, combined with all the negative media about home daycare, i think it has really de-valued our position in the community and more parents want to avoid the home day care option. I think that parents will start to simply "use" us as short term , until they can get into centers. I believe that home daycare setups that exist in general now, are being pushed out, and what will remain is the elite (where the parents will pay more for a small more customized care set up) and the illegal (where parents dont ask dont tell....until something goes wrong). I do believe that the all day kindergarten, in school before and after care from 6am- 6pm, bill 10 , and now extending mat leave, all within a few years, sends the general message, that home child care is not be desired, and the government is going to find a way to make so parents wont need it at all. I am in my 11th year in this business, and I honestly never had the issues with parents attitudes before that i have in the past couple years, and I think it all just boils down to the general idea that we are "just babysitters getting paid to stay at home"
I never even mentioned the before and after school care, I had forgotten but you are right. There is now the legal obligation in Ontario to provide every child under the age of 6 with onsite before and after school care.