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Is a child care provider a stranger?

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I answered a questin in this section and suggested a parent try to find a GOOD child care provider that will work with her children who receive developmental therapy..

someone responded indicating that is bad--because that person would be a starnger?

I have worked as a child care provider and had good RELATIONSHIPS with the family and child....The families thought of em as an extended family member....I currently provide therapy for children who are with a child care provider instead of teh parent...

Do you consider your child care provider to be a stranger?

If your child needed regular therapy (such as speech therapy) would you trust your child care provider to be there for teh appointments?

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  1. we are all strangers till we're introduced to each other.  however, some of us are stranger than others!!


  2. My son's child care provider is absolutely NOT a stranger.  My son is LFA and attends a licenced home day care with an incredible provider.  She was an aide at a non-public special education school.  I'd trust his provider to be there, though I take him to therapy myself.  I think people who criticize child care providers are often doing that to put down the mom's decision to work: "you should be home with your child...(insert guilt trip here)" But for how many of us is it really a choice to work?  

  3. Here is a possible explanation for the stranger comment. My son has LFA. It takes a tremendous amount of time for him to develop relationships with new people. If I were to hire a child care provider that person would be, at first, a stranger. For my son, this person would be a stranger for a very long time. By stranger I mean there would be no relationship of trust.

    We tried, in the beginning, to hire therapists to work with my son. He attended a special ed. preschool for a few months as well. However, my husband and I stopped sending our son to therapists because he would never engage with them no matter how long he had been seeing them. We now keep him at home and my husband and I receive the training through different therapists and we work with our son. Our therapies all revolve around the relationship of trust we created over time with our child. I would not hire a child care provider for my son simply because by the time she was no longer a stranger to him, it would probably be time for him to move on. It does not reflect at all on my opinion of a child care provider's ability, simply on the reality of my child's disability.

    Hope this helps


  4. No.  The parents should first do their homework and check references, credentials, interview the child care provider, etc. before hiring him/her.

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