What questions should a home daycare provider ask?
When I do the initial interview I have a folder with all the required paperwork. On one side are the policies (child I go through with the parents) and on the other side are things they need to fill out or sign including allergy forms and etc. Informal questions: * Has your child been in some type of child care before? (Encourage them to expand on this because some may have been with Grandparents for the first 2 years and YIKES! No offense to grandparents 🙂 But there is a difference in what they come to us with!) * Does your child have a specific “comfort” when they are upset…which could be an activity or a stuffed animal/blanket. * How does your child handle nap time? (Please remember that if you enforce nap time… this does not mean you are going to say Okay, your child does not have to nap…if the parent says they don’t. Play it by ear…because more often than not…these are the kids that NEED a nap and when you are in a routine and all their peers are going down…they will
