Tuesday, May 30, 2006
How to Pick Quality Child Care: from a Child Care Provider Part-2
A)The phone interview....
If you are calling during operating hours for the provider...are they spending a lot of time on the phone with you? Quality providers will refuse to answer the phone for anyone other than parents during operating hours. The exception to this would be during nap time or a facility that has adequate staffing arrangements. While parents may feel that this imparts a level of unprofessionalism...it is in fact just the opposite.
Why is not answering the phone a sign of quality? Because the provider is refusing to take time away from the job at hand...taking care of the children. If your child is in care at the facility...would you want the staff to stop playing, reading, or providing attention to your child in order to answer the phone?
MORE CHILDCARE DATA CLICK HERE
If you are calling during operating hours for the provider...are they spending a lot of time on the phone with you? Quality providers will refuse to answer the phone for anyone other than parents during operating hours. The exception to this would be during nap time or a facility that has adequate staffing arrangements. While parents may feel that this imparts a level of unprofessionalism...it is in fact just the opposite.
Why is not answering the phone a sign of quality? Because the provider is refusing to take time away from the job at hand...taking care of the children. If your child is in care at the facility...would you want the staff to stop playing, reading, or providing attention to your child in order to answer the phone?
MORE CHILDCARE DATA CLICK HERE
