09/25/2026
🐞Let me take a moment as a 20 year vet in the child care world to give new families looking for daycare a few pieces of advice. You can scroll on if you’d like I’m pretty easy going and it won’t hurt my feelings♥️
🐥First and foremost not every provider fits every family and that’s OK! Not every provider fits every child’s needs and that is also OK!
🐮Please understand that there is no “better” provider than another. No one in our field should be saying they are the better than others because we can ALL learn strategies to be better care providers. We all need refreshers and we all need humbling from time to time as well! We all have our strengths that we will bring to your kiddos!
🦋There is a provider that fits YOUR family and YOUR child. We all have different styles, different values and different ways of running our businesses. Because even though this is our home, we are still a registered tax paying business (if we are licensed and governed by EEC in MA). And we need to conduct it as such.
🐢In my experience being a parent who needed childcare at one point AND a provider here are some key questions to ask:
-Do you spend at least a half hour outside every day?
-How do you handle multiple ages and their needs into your schedule?
-What do you provide and what would I need to provide?
-How do you communicate? Ex. Text, group text, page, brightwheel, email etc
-If there is a penalty for late pick ups.
-Are you part of a system and how often is Early Intervention or System visits invited into your home around the children and observing your interactions with the kiddos and your program?
-What do you do to take care of yourself? (Caretaking is very very demanding and we all need to take care of ourselves too).
🫎These are important questions you should be asking outside of 1. Rates
2. Hours and days of operation
🦄Please know that we LOVE our jobs. We are all different and someone will fit your family I promise!
🐸With alll that being said if you’ve made it this far, I have an opening for any age😉! Feel free to message me! 🥳♥️