Pets in Childcare Area

[Cradle2crayons]

yet another.

[permanentvacation]

Baby Beluga,

You have a point. Around here, with the African Americans, they are either pit bull owners or scared to death of pets. You do find an occasional African American who has a regular little fluffy dog. But you don't see that often here. I have mentioned many times on this forum that this is the lowest income area that I have lived in. I never thought of the fact that the lower a person's income is, the less chance of them owning a pet simply because it's an additional expense. So, that might be why so many other nationalities around here are scared of pets. Now that I'm thinking about it, I think I could probably split my parents into categories of parents that are okay with me having pets are 1. pit bull owners and 2. parents that are more financially comfortable than my typical parent, and parents that are scared to death of pets are 1. African Americans and 2. low income parents Wow! I never would have realized that!

Okay, so, now that I think I might understand the reason the people of this area react to pets the way they do, I still need to figure out what to do about my pets and my daycare so hopefully more people will hire me.

I think I will add some pictures of my pets with the daycare kids to my website so parents can see that my dog is good with kids and that the kids enjoy petting my dog. I really don't want to have to put my pets in a room all day.

[permanentvacation]

Okay, thanks to Baby Beluga helping me understand the parents in my area, I have decided what I am going to do. I will finish taking my carpet up and finishing the hardwood floors, continue to advertise for daycare, and raise my rates so that hopefully, I will get more parents that are better off financially and can pay the rate I'd rather be paid, and more than likely, those parents will be just fine with my pets. There we go, In the end, hopefully I will make more money and be able to keep my pets in the daycare room.

[katzan]

I let parents know that I have pets before they even come in for an interview just in case it is an issue. My cats have free roam of the house but are barely anywhere but my bedroom, maybe occasionally on the couch. My dogs roam freely when the kids are in the daycare/playroom but if we are in the main part of the house, the dogs get crated. They don't bother the daycare kids but I prefer them to be crated anyways since usually when the kids are out of the playroom, they are typically eating, and I hate the begging at the table thing. We even crate them when my own family is eating dinner.

Our playroom has a gate up at the door by the way.

[Baby Beluga]

Okay, thanks to Baby Beluga helping me understand the parents in my area, I have decided what I am going to do. I will finish taking my carpet up and finishing the hardwood floors, continue to advertise for daycare, and raise my rates so that hopefully, I will get more parents that are better off financially and can pay the rate I'd rather be paid, and more than likely, those parents will be just fine with my pets. There we go, In the end, hopefully I will make more money and be able to keep my pets in the daycare room.

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