What to look for in a quality daycare.

As parents, we all know the importance of a daycare. Not only are we sad or distraught about sending our children to a total stranger, the search for a quality daycare can be a tedious job, but nonetheless an important one at hand.

One would ask, should I send my child to an established chain daycare facility or should I look into a home daycare? Well the answer is it is up to you, the parent. Myself coming from a background of running a home daycare, they are more personal, the amount of children that can be watched under one provider is much less then a chain daycare facility.

Do you want a childcare provider that is responsible for 5-6 children or a provider that is responsible for 10+ children at once? My choice is the less children being watched means greater child/provider interaction. More attention can be given to your child. Not only attention, but the children seem to interact much better with a home daycare vs. a chain daycare.

Here are some things to consider when looking for the right daycare for your child.

• Cleanliness
• Amount of children being watcher per provider
• Licensed or registered (we will discuss the difference in a later issue)
• Flexible schedule (good for the parents who have an weird work hours)
• Safety reports
• Do they provide transportation to and from school?
• Strict on rules or payment issues
• and most of all Caring…

When choosing your childcare provider ask if you can sit a day with your child to test the environment out. Making sure your child interacts nicely with the other children. Watch, study how the provider interacts with the children, what they feed them, etc. These are all important factors when choosing the right daycare provider.

We all go through the tough decision for choosing a childcare provider so we all feel your pain of letting your child go