The vaccinated families would be giving me their feelings on me bringing an unvaccinated child into daycare. They would be asked something along the lines of “I’ve been interviewing potential families for the opening I have and wanted to let you know that there may be an unvaccinated child in consideration. Would this be something you would be comfortable with?”
If I had one hold out voting no, then I’d most likely move on to my next potential family and tell the non vaccinated family that I wouldn’t be enrolling them. Ultimately it will be my decision because it is my business, but because I really value my current families, I would want to make a decision that doesn’t jeopardize me losing them, especially when it’s over something like this since I personally don’t care either way if a child is vaccinated.
It is also worth mentioning that I have a very small daycare, only 4 kids, one of which is a relative and wouldn’t care about vaccines. If I had a larger daycare this probably wouldn’t be a policy simply because too many opinions would be put in the hat. With me only having to ask 2 or 3 families, it’s more manageable. It’s also worth mentioning that my daycare income is our extra money so if I have an opening that I don’t fill for awhile while I search for the right family, it won’t cause any problems in our household budget.
And I didn’t feel like you were giving me a hard time at all, so no worries there!
One of the things I love most about this forum is hearing the different opinions of others. Seeing things from someone else’s perspective can be extremely helpful.
All of this said, it turns out that it doesn’t matter. As I was typing this, my husband just let me know that he accepted a job offer that will have us moving out of state and across the country which means my daycare will actually be closing soon. Looks like I’ll be losing those families I love afterall.
If I had one hold out voting no, then I’d most likely move on to my next potential family and tell the non vaccinated family that I wouldn’t be enrolling them. Ultimately it will be my decision because it is my business, but because I really value my current families, I would want to make a decision that doesn’t jeopardize me losing them, especially when it’s over something like this since I personally don’t care either way if a child is vaccinated.
It is also worth mentioning that I have a very small daycare, only 4 kids, one of which is a relative and wouldn’t care about vaccines. If I had a larger daycare this probably wouldn’t be a policy simply because too many opinions would be put in the hat. With me only having to ask 2 or 3 families, it’s more manageable. It’s also worth mentioning that my daycare income is our extra money so if I have an opening that I don’t fill for awhile while I search for the right family, it won’t cause any problems in our household budget.
And I didn’t feel like you were giving me a hard time at all, so no worries there!

All of this said, it turns out that it doesn’t matter. As I was typing this, my husband just let me know that he accepted a job offer that will have us moving out of state and across the country which means my daycare will actually be closing soon. Looks like I’ll be losing those families I love afterall.

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