[speaker001:] well I think um for at least for me uh because my sister is looking for day care one of the things that we talked about as being very important is the um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] the in the teacher to uh the number of kids
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] because if you've got a lot a large number of children one teacher just won't cut it
[speaker002:] right even if it's in the home I think this is important even if it's a private home situation
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] and not a day care
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um probably number one too would be close references if you know people that have had the experience at they hands on experience of one
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] would be very important word of mouth
[speaker001:] word of mouth is good uh something that I don't think many people know about and I this is just something I've heard not something I've actually experienced um checked into is that um the agency that uh that license
[speaker002:] um friends
[speaker001:] um agencies agencies to care for kids like home either home or day care you can you can request to see if they have had any problems in the past
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] is what I've been told
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that would be a good a good resource to check
[speaker002:] right right and all of course better business I would check any of your business um any type of thing references of that type
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] as well as your word of mouth if you were putting them in uh uh school or any day care type you know that's public
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know what I mean like a church or a school type thing
[speaker001:] yeah oh yeah oh yeah
[speaker002:] I would check that awfully close um I'd go in often
[speaker001:] yes and in and there's some places I'm sorry go ahead
[speaker002:] unexpectedly unexpectedly wherever they where
[speaker001:] right because then there's some places and I would and I would don't this would be a a big minus for the places there are some places that state that you cannot come in unannounced
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you have to have an appointment or you know or whatever and I don't think you know if there hum-um
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum I wouldn't do that I mean I wouldn't not put my child in there though would you
[speaker001:] no no never
[speaker002:] you know I would never have a controlled situation not with a little one especially
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] you know that's not a not a good situation on that
[speaker001:] and I think you've also got to look you know whenever you go in and you know talk to the talk to the the the teachers and look at the toys that they have and the environment that the kids' ll be in
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um-hum right that's real important I believe so too to meet the and administrators as well and really kind of
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] research it and get an idea of how they feel about things you know have your questions ready on their feelings on things and all
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] kind of how they basically anyway because they you know that's um seventy percent your child's life
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you know is developing is there
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so that's real important do you have any children in it yourself
[speaker001:] no um I like I said my sister's in the process of trying to find one for hers
[speaker002:] your sister is um-hum yeah it's a scary thing my daughter's been in Houston and had to do it you know just out of the cold she's had to
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but she's been real fortunately in finding women in their homes
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh
[speaker001:] right and and that's a good situation but it can it can it can turn bad with older children
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um I was in a day care until I was thirteen just during like in the summers
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and what we found was and what finally got me out of this women's home was the fact that she would go off shopping with some of the older kids and leave me there to care for the little ones
[speaker002:] oh wow yeah
[speaker001:] you know and I mean this went on for a summer for a you know good two and a half months
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know and it's her daily thing you know and so if you've got older children that you just don't want to leave at home
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] sometimes a day care a a a private home or a day care setting is not the best
[speaker002:] not the best situation yeah yeah that's for sure
[speaker001:] right right so but oh and another one is is how they discipline
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um I know depending a couple of the day cares that that I went to whenever I was younger um one of them disciplined whenever we were outside you hugged a tree and you had time out
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] whereas you know I've heard of some agencies you know that get into the physical discipline
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and you you really have to find a discipline that that matches your beliefs
[speaker002:] yes right and what you would want done right yeah
[speaker001:] or yeah right because it gets it can it can become very confusing for the child
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] I would think so
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] hm what about um well I'm in I'm in nursing
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so one thing I would look at would be um
[speaker002:] the cleanliness and the care health care
[speaker001:] the cleanliness and the care the health that's right the certification of the of the teachers teachers
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum right
[speaker001:] because there's a new state law mandating that everyone that works in a day care
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] knows knows infant and child CPR
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but there's a lot of places