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Dear ******* & ********,
I respect your decision to not enrol your son into my daycare and I hope that you are able to find a daycare that best suits your families needs. With that being said it is not good practice to commit in word to enrolling your child in a daycare one day and then pulling out the next and I will tell you why. A daycare provider is a business lady and the daycare is the business. When we interview potential clients for a space our initiative is to fill a space. A provider may schedule in 5 interviews in a week with the intentions of only enrolling one family, the family that best fits her daycare, personality and family life style. When the interviewing process has been completed the provider will then chose which family to enrol and let the other 4 families know that she is unable to accommodate them at this time. If a family choses a daycare and the provider choses a family and a commitment is made to sign paper work and a date scheduled to submit the appropriate fees for the space this gives the provider the notion that her space has been filled, at which time she would tell all other families she interviewed that she is not able to accommodate them at this time. If a family then decides the following day they no longer want the space that they committed in word to taking, the provider would have to start her interview process all over again.
I know you are a bran new family to the world of daycare and I understand that mistakes will be made along the way but one thing that you should try to understand going into the daycare realm is that respect for providers goes a very way long way. We, as providers, have a very busy, stressful and time consuming job. We not only tend to children 9-11 hours a day, 5 days a week, but we accommodate the parents, do the appropriate daily, weekly, monthly and yearly paper work, run the daycare errands, plan the daycare events and we INTERVIEW. Interviewing is like the overtime you would put in at work to finish a project. If a project at work was expected to take 5 hours from start until finish and you put in that 5 hours of overtime and were under the impression that the project was complete, then the next day you found out all your work was for nothing and you had to start all over again putting in another 5 hours of overtime, let me add UNPAID, how would you feel?
It will be a childcare provider who cares for you son 47.5 hours a week every week, while you work. When you look at all the time a childcare provider spends with your most prescious asset it might help you to understand why it's so very important to respect childcare providers in general for what they do. Without a childcare provider you, as a parent, would not be able to go to work everyday.
With that being said, I did NOT tell the other 2 families that I interviewed that I couldn't accommodate them yet as I always wait until the paper work and deposit are in hand before doing so. I will still be able to fill my space out of this week's interviewing. I just wanted you to know what your decision could have potentially meant for a childcare provider and the importance of thinking things through prior to committing to something verbally or in writing.
Best of Luck,
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**This was the family that I had emailed yesterday about my concerns (red flags) and who told me yesterday they wanted the space and would drop off the paper work and deposit at 4:00pm today. I didn't send this email but I would have very much loved to have done so. I wanted to share it with all of the providers out there that have had the same thing happen to them in the past.
I respect your decision to not enrol your son into my daycare and I hope that you are able to find a daycare that best suits your families needs. With that being said it is not good practice to commit in word to enrolling your child in a daycare one day and then pulling out the next and I will tell you why. A daycare provider is a business lady and the daycare is the business. When we interview potential clients for a space our initiative is to fill a space. A provider may schedule in 5 interviews in a week with the intentions of only enrolling one family, the family that best fits her daycare, personality and family life style. When the interviewing process has been completed the provider will then chose which family to enrol and let the other 4 families know that she is unable to accommodate them at this time. If a family choses a daycare and the provider choses a family and a commitment is made to sign paper work and a date scheduled to submit the appropriate fees for the space this gives the provider the notion that her space has been filled, at which time she would tell all other families she interviewed that she is not able to accommodate them at this time. If a family then decides the following day they no longer want the space that they committed in word to taking, the provider would have to start her interview process all over again.
I know you are a bran new family to the world of daycare and I understand that mistakes will be made along the way but one thing that you should try to understand going into the daycare realm is that respect for providers goes a very way long way. We, as providers, have a very busy, stressful and time consuming job. We not only tend to children 9-11 hours a day, 5 days a week, but we accommodate the parents, do the appropriate daily, weekly, monthly and yearly paper work, run the daycare errands, plan the daycare events and we INTERVIEW. Interviewing is like the overtime you would put in at work to finish a project. If a project at work was expected to take 5 hours from start until finish and you put in that 5 hours of overtime and were under the impression that the project was complete, then the next day you found out all your work was for nothing and you had to start all over again putting in another 5 hours of overtime, let me add UNPAID, how would you feel?
It will be a childcare provider who cares for you son 47.5 hours a week every week, while you work. When you look at all the time a childcare provider spends with your most prescious asset it might help you to understand why it's so very important to respect childcare providers in general for what they do. Without a childcare provider you, as a parent, would not be able to go to work everyday.
With that being said, I did NOT tell the other 2 families that I interviewed that I couldn't accommodate them yet as I always wait until the paper work and deposit are in hand before doing so. I will still be able to fill my space out of this week's interviewing. I just wanted you to know what your decision could have potentially meant for a childcare provider and the importance of thinking things through prior to committing to something verbally or in writing.
Best of Luck,
********
**This was the family that I had emailed yesterday about my concerns (red flags) and who told me yesterday they wanted the space and would drop off the paper work and deposit at 4:00pm today. I didn't send this email but I would have very much loved to have done so. I wanted to share it with all of the providers out there that have had the same thing happen to them in the past.
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