Starting A Home Daycare – 8 Issues You Want Parents To Be Aware Of
Your prospective clients (the parents) will have many questions and concerns when it comes to choosing the right daycare provider for their children. This is a given. You, as the caregiver, will also have some questions and concerns that you would like to voice to the parents. Sadly, there are times when parents are not receptive to the issues that daycare providers raise. It is also true that the daycare provider may feel unable to communicate the issues properly, simply because their livelihood is at stake if they ask too many questions of the parents.
Here are the top eight issues that you need to make sure parents are aware of:
(1) Immunizations are not optional. While parents may have had reasons to put off that visit to the pediatrician, you as a childcare provider have a responsibility to the children of other parents. Proper and timely immunizations ensure that the kids, as well as the daycare provider, will remain safe and healthy. So you need to firmly advise the parents that their child cannot come back until all the immunizations are current, and that they will need to...