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[jen]

Oh....yeah......because if you care for more children, they wouldn't get the time, attention, love, and discipline. Riiiiiight.

Uhmmm...I do have more children, 8 under school age. I certainly feel that I provide excellent care, but if I could afford to just watch 3 or 4 kids, they'd get more of me. Simple math, one of me divided by 8 or one of me divided by 4! Same goes for those with assistants! Doesn't it make sense that smaller ratios mean more care?

[ninosqueridos]

Uhmmm...I do have more children, 8 under school age. I certainly feel that I provide excellent care, but if I could afford to just watch 3 or 4 kids, they'd get more of me. Simple math, one of me divided by 8 or one of me divided by 4! Same goes for those with assistants! Doesn't it make sense that smaller ratios mean more care?

I see your ratio point - I just don't appreciate the OP implying there is less love with more kids - as if I didn't care about them. Geez.

[Unregistered]

I don't think that provider meant anything bad about having a lot of daycare children, I just think her point was that if you only have a few kids, you would have more time to spend with each of them on a more one on one level. I only take 2 myself and I do have time to spend more individual time with them. They get their diaper changed right away when they have wet or poopy pants, where if you have many kids and they all need changing, you just can't get to all of them right away,that is just a small example. But I do agree with her on the number of children in the provider's care, it does make a difference. I do daycare because I love the kids and am fortunate to be doing daycare because I love kids and not because I really need the money, so I am able to take only a few kids. I know it is not that way for many of you,so don't take that the wrong way.