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I'm sick. On the weekend.
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WTF more can I do???
My CL ad is the best it can get, enough to make a licensed daycare nosey.
My website is professional & up-to-date, more then I can say for anyone posting on CL who don't even have one.
I update my FB page every day, although I basically talk to myself.
Still nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. None.
I feel like just saying F-it and deleting it all. Then wait the excruciatingly long 2yrs until I have my Associates in ECE & then just go apply to a normal daycare job. It feels like forever away.
Why can't life just let me do what I love?!
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Your updates to your site look SO good. I'm sure you'll get clients soon. I've found that my Facebook page doesn't help me get clients. I do get clients from Facebook by posting on other pages. There's a "my city name moms" group I belong to, and I have successfully posted openings there.WTF more can I do???
My CL ad is the best it can get, enough to make a licensed daycare nosey.
My website is professional & up-to-date, more then I can say for anyone posting on CL who don't even have one.
I update my FB page every day, although I basically talk to myself.
Still nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. None.
I feel like just saying F-it and deleting it all. Then wait the excruciatingly long 2yrs until I have my Associates in ECE & then just go apply to a normal daycare job. It feels like forever away.
Why can't life just let me do what I love?!
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I get this phone call at least once a month- it still drives me nuts.
Me: Hello
Prospective Parent: Hi. Is this the home daycare?
Me: This is me.
PP: I want to talk to the person who takes care of kids.
Me: Yeah- that's me.
PP: UH.... OK. CLICK!!!!
Today added a new wrinkle--"Ok, so you run the business. Who do they let around the kids?"
Me: I do- it's a home daycare and I am the care provider.
Now disgusted PP: Oh that's just f#$%'d up. CLICK!!!
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I don't get it.....what do they get out of calling you? Seems so weird????I get this phone call at least once a month- it still drives me nuts.
Me: Hello
Prospective Parent: Hi. Is this the home daycare?
Me: This is me.
PP: I want to talk to the person who takes care of kids.
Me: Yeah- that's me.
PP: UH.... OK. CLICK!!!!
Today added a new wrinkle--"Ok, so you run the business. Who do they let around the kids?"
Me: I do- it's a home daycare and I am the care provider.
Now disgusted PP: Oh that's just f#$%'d up. CLICK!!!
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The parents will bring him when he is sick and just tell me to leave him to rest during the day. I really hope they have no serious issues anytime soon."God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do.'"
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Parents, if you aren't serious...
about needing care, don't set up an in person interview; if you don't call for the address I know you plan to blow me off (1st interviews are 6pm or later)... it's why I ask parents to text 2-3 hrs before the meet & greet to get my address. I talked to you on the phone and we get along, that's why the dang meeting was set...
I'm so tired of trying to fill this last space ( over 3 months now)Comment
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It takes time... especially in summerWTF more can I do???
My CL ad is the best it can get, enough to make a licensed daycare nosey.
My website is professional & up-to-date, more then I can say for anyone posting on CL who don't even have one.
I update my FB page every day, although I basically talk to myself.
Still nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. None.
I feel like just saying F-it and deleting it all. Then wait the excruciatingly long 2yrs until I have my Associates in ECE & then just go apply to a normal daycare job. It feels like forever away.
Why can't life just let me do what I love?!
I've been trying to fill a spot for over 3 months now... I also have a website ( I think it saves me aggravation by weeding out people that won't abide by my policies - they are all online
), I have a FB page, I do CL... I don't post fees. I set fees similar to you, but don't list it online... If they won't meet me in person, it tells me they are just shopping for a lower rate and I don't need a family that wants to dicker over money. I want people that fit with my way of doing things... that includes organic food and being eco friendly
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I keep telling myself that. But I can never leave well enough alone.It takes time... especially in summer
I've been trying to fill a spot for over 3 months now... I also have a website ( I think it saves me aggravation by weeding out people that won't abide by my policies - they are all online), I have a FB page, I do CL... I don't post fees. I set fees similar to you, but don't list it online... If they won't meet me in person, it tells me they are just shopping for a lower rate and I don't need a family that wants to dicker over money. I want people that fit with my way of doing things... that includes organic food and being eco friendly.
I keep getting emails that end up being damn spam!
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I get this phone call at least once a month- it still drives me nuts.
Me: Hello
Prospective Parent: Hi. Is this the home daycare?
Me: This is me.
PP: I want to talk to the person who takes care of kids.
Me: Yeah- that's me.
PP: UH.... OK. CLICK!!!!
Today added a new wrinkle--"Ok, so you run the business. Who do they let around the kids?"
Me: I do- it's a home daycare and I am the care provider.
Now disgusted PP: Oh that's just f#$%'d up. CLICK!!!
I HATE MONDAYS
I haven't gotten this call yet.. but an expecting it at some point..Chief cook, bottle washer & spider killer...Comment
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It's why I don't use a CL addy; my ad makes them go to my website - you can set it up that way... specify, no Cl addy; if they actually read my website, I know by the email that the contact page sends... I avoid a lot of spam that way... and I see you can't list a webpage either on hereComment
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Damn it man.. today gets worse
just had a cancellation of a family I held a spot for cancel ( for free over 2 months); start date was tomorrow... I now have no choice but to enforce holding fee due to loosing 2.5 months of income. Only time I did it, and I got burned... BIG TIMEComment
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Unfortunately it's the 10-15% percent of people who have an issue with a guy taking care of children. I'd say I'm used to it, but it's still annoying.
A big part of the problem is the local R&R list has me listed as "Armour Family Child Care" (a DBA they said I needed rather than just using my name). So people calling from the list don't know it's coming. Any ad materials I put out has my name on it so to avoid confusion.
I always joke after I retire I'm writing a book on childcare called "Nothing Duct Tape and a Cattle Prod Can't Handle". I could do a couple of chapters on some of the weird, aggravating, and downright comical situations being a guy in ECE has gotten me into.
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Why do the kids need to peel the paper off of the crayons? I have 2 kids who spend all their time peeling the paper (and making a big mess, that's the issue) and hardly color! So of course the crayons get taken away from them
Ugh my vacation starts Friday and I REALLY need one! Can you tell?? Even crayons are getting to me ::
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{This isn't directed at anyone in particular! Just a general vent}
I simply hate seeing childcare providers who whine/complain/bicker all the time about kids. Yeah, I get we all have bad days and some kids are the devil. Its ok to vent and share our frustrations, just like any job. But some are just downright negative about it all. If you don't love kids then why do it?! {Money is a bonus not a motive!}
It makes me so upset. I would kill to have ONE kids in my care right now. Its unfair.
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