Forms Needed

[mom-in-alberta]

Luckily, all the ones you forgot can be filled in on an "as needed" basis. I also have parents sign a photo release form, but I don't think it's really a requirement. I am just paper-happy, hahaha.
I also just have a transportation form, because it covers all scenarios.

[Inspired by Reggio]

.... I also have parents sign a photo release form, but I don't think it's really a requirement. I am just paper-happy, hahaha.....

I agree for me it is to prevent 'conflict' and to 'cover my ass' .... sadly with raising children there are a 100 different definitions of 'common sense' and what might seem natural for me to do and think it is not a big deal might make another persons skin crawl and so forth so the more I have clearly laid out and SIGNED the less I can have someone coming back and freaking out on me!

It never ceases to amaze me the things that might set off a client

One of my current clients pulled their kid from a program because the provider thought it was perfectly safe to pile 6 kids between the age of 1 and 7 onto golf cart and drive 8 km down a country road with cars going 80km an hour as a 'field trip' to a friends farm and could not understand why the client was PISSED with her .... the provider A) did not have a signed consent form to leave the property with the children and no policy that stated this was something to 'expect' in the program and B) the kids were in a motor vehicle with no car seats which the client felt was not only illegal but dangerous .... so for many of us that would be common sense NOT to do this but for the provider obviously she felt it was common sense .... however for the parent of a 3 year old the thought of them being on a road with cars traveling that speed with no 'protection' at all freaked her out and did not seem 'common sense' at all.... if the provider had a 'consent form' or a 'field trip policy' in place that outlined this was part of the program the client never would have signed on in the first place.

Same with things like supervision .... some people feel it is fine to leave some children outside in a fenced yard alone while the adult supervises from inside the other children while others that would be a disaster in waiting of what happens if there is an emergency outside and you have to leave the inside kids alone unsupervised or vice versa and the kids outside get into stranger danger issue and the adult is inside not 'noticing' cause the inside kids are having an emergency and so forth .... or willingness to take 'risks' like that vary depending on the value we see in the activity.