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How To Help Parents Feel at Ease About the Men in Your Home

When my daughter was a toddler, I chose a home daycare that was near my home. I really like the provider, however, I was quite uncomfortable with her husband being around my child.

In fact, I did not like the fact that her husband walked around the home with no shirt on. I thought it was so unprofessional. Every day that I dropped my daughter off, I grew even more uncomfortable with her husband being around my daughter, so I took my daughter to a family member.

Two years later I opened my very own home daycare and I realized that I had 2 men living  in my home. So I thought about how I would help the parents to feel at ease with the men in my home daycare.  Here is what I did:

  1. When parents would come to tour my home, I would introduce my husband and my teenage brother to the parents.
  2. My husband and my Brother’s background checks were readily made available to parents and this was discussed upon enrolling their children.
  3. I also discussed with the parents if my husband or brother would ever help with the kids and when they were in the home during childcare hours.

I strongly believe that my efforts to help parents feel at ease about the men in my home helped me to build strong relationships with my parents. Moreover, the parents and the kids really liked my brother . My husband is a contractor and many of the parents utilized his remodeling services. My home daycare has been closed for 9 years now and  many of the parents from my home daycare, still call my husband today for his services.

Do you have men in your home and how are they involved in your home daycare?

Shiketa

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Family Child Care, Home Daycare

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Quality Care is Hard Work

 

The picture that you see above, is a photo of my husband putting together a new playhouse for our playground.  The day that I took this picture, we were working at the center on a Saturday morning, preparing for Re-Accreditation.

My facility has been Accredited by the Missouri Accreditation of program for Children and Youth since 2006 and we are in the process of being re-accredited.  As I go through the accreditation process, I realize how much work is involved in providing quality childcare including;

  • Evaluating Administrative practices
  • Improving Health/Safety practices
  • Improving the physical environment
  • Improving the Curriculum
  • Evaluating Parent connections and so much more!

On March 20, 2012, an Accreditation Validation review team stopped by my center to evaluate our quality care practices. Now……. you would think that after going through three accreditation observations in my center and one in my home daycare, that I would not be nervous.

On the day of the visit, I was so nervous to have strangers in my center evaluating every little detail of the program. Then I had to give myself a positive talk and remind myself that I am an Expert at Quality Care and I have nothing to worry about!

I also had to remind myself that I focus on quality care, because children deserve quality care and parents want quality care. Moreover, there are many definitions of what quality childcare is, however, the highest form of quality care is Accreditation.

I want to inspire you to seek  Accreditation. If you cannot afford it, I am sure that there are some agencies in your area that would love to help pay for your Accreditation.

Quality Care is Hard work, however, when parents know that you provide quality care, they will choose you over other childcare programs. Furthermore…all the hard work of building a quality program is worth all the sweat and labor!

I want to invite you to check out my post on Accreditation and subscribe to my e Course, 7-steps to Quality Care.

 

With Quality Care in mind,

Shiketa

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Accreditation, Child Care Center, Home Daycare, preschool, Quality Care

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