This article makes it sound as
if home daycares are nothing more than your average teenage sitter.
If the home daycare provides food, make sure it serves nutritious meals (covering all five food groups) and snacks.
Bottom line:
If a home daycare is poorly organized and has lax or nonexistent rules, it's not likely to be right for you.
If a home daycare provider is licensed, you can call your state licensing agency or the Better Business Bureau and ask whether...
If a home daycare provider thinks it's reasonable to leave any of the children in her care unattended while she runs to the mailbox or the corner store, you don't want her looking after your baby.
Bottom line:
If a home daycare doesn't have rules and organization, it's not likely to be the right place for you.
If the home daycare doesn't offer them, move on.
Bottom line: A license isn't everything, but
if a home daycare doesn't have one, it's not the place for you.
Not exact matches
On the other hand, someone who runs a
home daycare may not be able to claim the expense at all
if it's not essential to the running of the business.
If parents can stay
home with their kids until they're 18 months, they could end up finding
daycare more easily — and paying less for it.
For the record, a quick list of things that need to be done: Sell or rent your current house, find your new
home, squat in temporary accommodation in between, pack and move, close out old utilities, set - up new utilities, update your health insurance and driver's license, ditto with banking and vehicle registration, deliver said vehicle to new location, ensure spouse and children have jobs and school /
daycare placements, find childcare in between
if necessary, settle everyone in.
To get a clearer image of what you need to do before you can get started, it helps to create either a
home daycare business plan or,
if it isn't
home - based, a basic
daycare business plan.
Subsidized
daycare is good only
if we also equally subsidize sitters, nannies, moms at
home, dads at
home, tag - team parents, grandma are and the other 9 ways to tend kids.
Daycare staff will send your child
home if they have a fever.
If they are taking a 3 hour nap at
home and an hour and a half nap at
daycare, so that is 14 and 1/2 hours, I think that we are pretty much on track.
If possible, keep your high - risk child
home from
daycare during RSV season (usually November to April, with a peak in January and February).
The staff - to - child ratio in an in -
home daycare for newborns and infants is no greater than one caregiver for every four infants (
if there is only one child less than two years old in the group); there should be only two children in the group
if they are both under age two.
After three years of doing
daycare, I was asked
if we kept any guns in the
home.
The benefits are to cut child care costs and also to give the growing children regular playmates without the exposure to the many germs they could catch
if sent to a
daycare center or
home daycare.
When someone watches your child, regardless
if they are a nanny,
home daycare provider, or
daycare center there is always a contract.
If your baby has a regular babysitter or is in
daycare and has to sleep on a schedule of their choosing, your best bet is to continue that same schedule when they're at
home, too.
What
if your child seems to be potty trained at
home, but you start to get reports that at
daycare, he keeps having accidents and won't go on their potty?
If you do in
home daycare (at least in my state) cabinet locks ARE REQUIRED for your
home inspection.
If you think your child is suddenly regressing in their potty training, it could be emotional stress due to a big new change, like a new
daycare or bringing a new baby
home.
Training pants:
If your toddler is having a fine time at
home using the potty but having trouble at preschool or
daycare, maybe try some training pants.
If daycare is better for children than staying
home with Mommy, this means that total strangers make better parents than the child's natural parents!
But
if your child has not yet had experience with preschool or
daycare away from
home, you might want to enroll him in some kind of class or structured playgroup this year.
But on the other hand,
if our daughter is sick, she can't go to
daycare and someone would have to be
home with her.
Our
daycare does something similar & we were totally lax about any «training» at
home (the potty was there & we would ask
if Older wanted to try.
If you know your
home is not the place your child is picking up these behaviors, pay attention to his other environments, such as how
daycare providers speak to each other, and how relatives speak to each other.
Your child may feel little or no pressure at preschool or
daycare to use the potty, even
if going at
home is very stressful.
If your child is in a daycare center, she might be moving classrooms; if you've been home, you may be starting a preschool program a few mornings a wee
If your child is in a
daycare center, she might be moving classrooms;
if you've been home, you may be starting a preschool program a few mornings a wee
if you've been
home, you may be starting a preschool program a few mornings a week.
NAEYC doesn't set adult - to - child ratios for
home daycare, but you can find out
if a provider complies with
home daycare ratios set by your state by visiting the National Association for Family Child Care's website (NAFCC) and looking through the NAFCC's list of accredited
daycare providers.
Some in -
home daycare providers charge very little
if they are a friend or neighbor, where others run more like a business and may charge as much as traditional
daycare.
(In some states and counties
home daycare providers can obtain a license as well,
if they're trained in CPR, pediatric first aid, and early childhood education.)
It's also nice
if you can have a separate space designated towards
daycare, that way the rest of your
home and items won't get so much wear and tear.
If you do decide to start an in -
home daycare, be sure to get state certified, so you can be reimbursed for meals.
If you live in a city, where many houses don't have safe outdoor play yards, make sure the
home daycare has the next best thing — a spacious indoor area.
If your caregiver (relative or not) doesn't have the energy to come up with new ways to entertain and stimulate your child - or safeguard him against possible accidents - you may want to consider switching to a
home daycare or center.
So
if your baby lives at
home with mom, dad, and a 6 - year - old brother, and goes to
daycare, then during flu season:
If you're looking for a caregiver with formal training in early education,
home daycare probably isn't for you.
Over time humans in some societies have become cultural parkers, their infants are kept at
home, or in a
daycare with other infants (a nest
if you will) while their parent or parents go out into the world to work (hunt / forage).
A very few
home daycares have been accredited by the National Association of Family Child Care;
if you find one, consider yourself very lucky.
If in -
home care (either a nanny or a
home daycare) is what everyone does, then that's where you'll probably find the excellence in New Town.
If you go to a
home daycare they get a lot of foot traffic coming in and out of their
home.
However, talk to your child's doctor
if his anxieties interfere with family activities, prevent him from making friends, become an excuse to stay
home from
daycare or school, disrupt his sleep, or result in compulsive behavior.
Even
if you can't find someone who will use them at a centre, you can find a
home daycare no problem once you explain.
One of the disadvantages of
home daycare is that you may need to make other arrangements
if a caregiver is ill.
If your
daycare doesn't support it, you can only do it in the morning and evening when you are
home, or figure out a way that works for your family.
This gives you the choice of using cloth inserts at
home and at night, and disposables when you are out and about or
if your
daycare doesn't accept cloth.