What Would You Do If A Daycare Parent...

[Unregistered]

What would you do if you found out a current daycare parent was looking on the internet for bad reviews or dirt on your daycare or about you??

[Shell]

How did you find out? I would term, sounds like they are trying to pull something, get you in trouble for something. Do they have any reason to be doing this?

[Blackcat31]

Point her in the direction she wants to go.

I had a DCM tell me just last week that she was trying to Google me.

I just gave her my website address and the DHS website that lists any citations I might have, which are none.

I don't care if DCP's want to "research" me. I have nothing to hide.

As a matter of fact, I'd probably have a hard time with a parent that didn't do their homework first.

I am caring for their child so I do think they have that right.

[drseuss]

How long have you had this family? Hard to answer the question without more background info.

Can you be forthright with them and ask them if they have concerns that you could address?

[Mister Sir Husband]

Prolly not too much... In my case anyways, if someone wants to blow a few hours snooping around on line for past discrepancys in my life, well then have a good time with that. The best they could really do is search public records on me, and we'll ok, it's a public record. Nothing I can do about it anyways so I'm not gonna waste time worrying about it.

Or.. plan b. Plant something truly ridiculous somewhere that they will find it a.d have a laugh about it when they approach you about it..

[drseuss]

If you don't have any dirt or bad reviews, you don't need to worry. If I were a parent considering a daycare I'd be googling the crap out of the prospective provider. If this is a longtime family, did something specific prompt this?

[Naptime yet?]

One family told me they googled me before they started. I laughed because I had googled myself, so I knew what would come up (I'm not on any social media sites, though).

I also tell my parents where they can find all inspection reports, that's public knowledge. And I display my reports, even though they don't read them.

Unfortunately not much seems to be private nowadays, it's just the world we live in...

[Second Home]

Am I the only one who went and googled their name after reading this thread ? ::

[BumbleBee]

Considering I google all potential dcp's-I really don't have a problem with it. I've googled businesses before when getting an estimate for work done. To me, it's no different. If we want to be seen as running a business, well, we need to 1. Act like we run a business, 2. Run it like a business, 3. Take whatever pros and cons go with running a business. If you don't want people googling your daycare, don't have a daycare.

[TwinKristi]

Considering I google all potential dcp's-I really don't have a problem with it. I've googled businesses before when getting an estimate for work done. To me, it's no different. If we want to be seen as running a business, well, we need to 1. Act like we run a business, 2. Run it like a business, 3. Take whatever pros and cons go with running a business. If you don't want people googling your daycare, don't have a daycare.

I google almost all my parents beforehand and search them up on Facebook.

[sharlan]

I wouldn't care, wouldn't offend me. I'm pretty close to an open book and will provide whatever info the parent asks for.

[craftymissbeth]

Considering I google all potential dcp's-I really don't have a problem with it. I've googled businesses before when getting an estimate for work done. To me, it's no different. If we want to be seen as running a business, well, we need to 1. Act like we run a business, 2. Run it like a business, 3. Take whatever pros and cons go with running a business. If you don't want people googling your daycare, don't have a daycare.

I've googled and looked up all of my families on Facebook. I hope they'd do the same for me considering I have their child more than they do in most cases.

[CraftyMom]

I think most of us wouldn't have an issue with a NEW client looking for info BEFORE coming.

This seems to be a current family, correct? So I would be questioning why they are looking for dirt NOW. Did something happen, or do they think something happened? I would be wondering about their sudden interest

[playground1]

Considering I google all potential dcp's-I really don't have a problem with it. I've googled businesses before when getting an estimate for work done. To me, it's no different. If we want to be seen as running a business, well, we need to 1. Act like we run a business, 2. Run it like a business, 3. Take whatever pros and cons go with running a business. If you don't want people googling your daycare, don't have a daycare.

[coolconfidentme]

Am I the only one who went and googled their name after reading this thread ? ::

I did, . I found running stuff. Even did an image search.., same thing. HAHA!