It is inevitable that one day your friends and family members will come to your daycare center and leave their own children under your care. While there should be no problem, it sometimes happens that this scenario results to a very frustrating experience for all parties concerned. They would want or even demand exceptions to one or two rules in your daycare center, just because they are your family or friends. They could put you in a spot where you would have to deny their request and perhaps lose their friendship or you would appear to be an inconsiderate relative. To avoid this potentially embarrassing situation, it is important that as owner of the daycare center, you reiterate to your family and friends that your personal relationship is independent of your working relationship with them. You cannot allow your personal relationship with them to cloud your judgment and influence your decision about dealing with their children. You cannot show any favoritism nor should they expect any from you, and that they shouldn’t bear any ill feelings against you if somehow they ask and you refused.

They should understand that all the rules and policies of the daycare center apply to all those who come to your daycare center. This means that they have to sign a contract just like everyone else to abide by whatever was established by law and by yourself in your facilities. This also includes pay dates, pick-up time, and meals.

The children of your family and friends should also be under the same rules of discipline just like all the other children you have accepted in your daycare center.

You should explain to them that if they don’t agree to these terms, it will be impossible for you to accept their children. If you don’t want your personal relationship with them to suffer later, you need to persuade them to agree before you let their children come under your care. In case you have already accepted their children without previous agreement on the above-mentioned terms, it would be best that you prepare a contract and have them sign it as soon as possible. This will give you the opportunity to rectify any possible misunderstanding about the rules and policies you have in your daycare center.

All the children you accept under your care should be made to understand on their very first day in your daycare center that rules apply to all of them without exception. Appropriate disciplinary action will be applied to any child who does not follow them, no matter whose children they are. Never make empty threats, so you need to follow through with your warning consistently.

Providing quality child care does not happen by accident. It results from conscious and deliberate collective efforts by everyone concerned, starting from you as the owner-operator of the daycare center, to the kitchen staff, and especially the parents. It is your responsibility to encourage everyone to do their job and contribute to the team’s efforts in providing high quality child care, whether they are your friends, family or some people you just know because they entrusted their children to you.

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