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Ten Things You Should Expect From Your Child Care Provider

1. Open communication. Providers should give you frequent and full updates on your child?s progress and problems. They should welcome your questions and ask your questions about how they can help your child. If they let you know what is happening with your child during they day, you can develop ways to deal with problems and to build on activates and accomplishments of the day.

2. Open access to their home or center. Parents must be welcome to drop in any time, even without calling. Providers also should allow parents to make a reasonable number of phone calls to check on their children?s well being, in case of illness or if there?s a special problem such s separation anxiety. You should and the provider should work out the best times for such phone calls and determine how many calls are reasonable.

3. Safety for your child. Providers should take all possible precautions to keep children safe. This includes plugging light sockets, putting away knives and other sharp objects, closing off stairways and using only safe and well maintained equipment, among other basic safety measures. It also includes always using child safety seats and seat belts when transporting children in cars.

4. Honesty and confidence. Providers shouldn?t make commitments that they can?t make or don?t intend to keep. They should not cover up problems or accidents that occur. They should not expect parents to help them avoid income taxes by slipping them money on the side. They also shouldn?t gossip about your child or your family or coworkers.

5. Acceptance of parents wishes. Providers should abide by parents wishes on matters such as discipline, TV watching, food, adult smoking and toilet training. If parents do not want their children spanked, providers should not spank them. If parents don?t want anyone smoking around their child, the provider needs to see that no on e smokes in the house when the child is present. If providers feel that they can?t abide by parents? wishes, they need to tell parents before agreeing to care for the children and parents should look for other care.

6. Advance notice of any changes. Since it is often very difficult to find adequate care, providers should tell parents well in advance if they are going to change their hours or prices or if they are going to stop or limit the time of caring of a child. Parents need at least a month or, better yet, six weeks notice if a provider is no longer going to care for a child. Except in the case of an emergency, parents should be giving at least two weeks notice even if the provider won?t t be available for just one day.

7. No interference in the child?s family or family problems. Providers shouldn?t talk to children about their family?s problems, life style, or values. Like wise, the provider should not try to impose their religious on the children they care for. This includes not taking children to religiously services unless asked to by the parents.





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					Ten Things You Should Expect From Your Child Care Provider 1. Open communication. Providers should give you frequent and full updates on your child?s progress and problems. They should welcome your questions and ask your questions about how they can help your child. If they let you know what is happening with your child during they day, you can develop ways to deal with problems and to build on activates and accomplishments of the day. 2. Open access to their home or center. Parents must be welcome to drop in any time, even without calling. Providers also should allow parents to make a reasonable number of phone calls to check on their children?s well being, in case of illness or if there?s a special problem such s separation anxiety. You should and the provider should work out the best times for such phone calls and determine how many calls are reasonable. 3. Safety for your child. Providers should take all possible precautions to keep children safe. This includes plugging light sockets, putting away knives and other sharp objects, closing off stairways and using only safe and well maintained equipment, among other basic safety measures. It also includes always using child safety seats and seat belts when transporting children in cars. 4. Honesty and confidence. Providers shouldn?t make commitments that they can?t make or don?t intend to keep. They should not cover up problems or accidents that occur. They should not expect parents to help them avoid income taxes by slipping them money on the side. They also shouldn?t gossip about your child or your family or coworkers. 5. Acceptance of parents wishes. Providers should abide by parents wishes on matters such as discipline, TV watching, food, adult smoking and toilet training. If parents do not want their children spanked, providers should not spank them. If parents don?t want anyone smoking around their child, the provider needs to see that no on e smokes in the house when the child is present. If providers feel that they can?t abide by parents? wishes, they need to tell parents before agreeing to care for the children and parents should look for other care. 6. Advance notice of any changes. Since it is often very difficult to find adequate care, providers should tell parents well in advance if they are going to change their hours or prices or if they are going to stop or limit the time of caring of a child. Parents need at least a month or, better yet, six weeks notice if a provider is no longer going to care for a child. Except in the case of an emergency, parents should be giving at least two weeks notice even if the provider won?t t be available for just one day. 7. No interference in the child?s family or family problems. Providers shouldn?t talk to children about their family?s problems, life style, or values. Like wise, the provider should not try to impose their religious on the children they care for. This includes not taking children to religiously services unless asked to by the parents. 8. No advice offered unless asked for and no judging of parenting practices. Providers shouldn?t criticize or advice parents on child rearing unless their advice is ask for by the parents. They shouldn?t set them selves up as experts on parenting. If parents ask for advice, providers should offer it in a no critical way. Of course, if providers see something that is seriously wrong with how parents are razing their children, such as if they fear child abuse or see a child apparently suffering from malnutrition ion, they should discuss the problem with the parents and, if needed, contact legal authorities. 9. Assurance that everyone in contact with the child is trustworthy and properly trained and supervised. Providers must be responsible for everyone who enters, visits, and works at their home or center. This includes screening custodial help, not admitting strangers to the home, seeing that all transportation workers are properly trained and all visitors, including friends, or realities of the provider, are trust worthy and supervised and will not harm the child. 10. No surprise. This means that your family day care provider won't suddenly tell you that since she has take apart time job, her teenage daughter watch your child three after noon?s a week or that your child?s favorite teacher at the center just disappears with out warning or comment. Surprises are problem what parents fear the most from there childcare providers. [ Home ] [See OurLocation] [Owner] [ Day & Eveing, Care ] [ Consulting ] [ News Letter ] [E-mail Us]