Do you have a room that is used for child care? Or do you use your whole house. I would love pictures. I am putting together a guide on how to set up your home for child care. If you would like to be part of this let me know. This is the first of many topics.
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4 blank walls and room dedicated to daycare...LOL sounds like a title to a book on daycare designing. ha ha. Walls..... I would paint at least one wall blue and sponge white clouds on the top part and all my other walls would be white or if I had lots of sunlight and a light blue I would paint more walls the blue with
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Originally posted by cheerfuldom View PostI use mostly a basement that is dedicated to daycare. Using my actual living space was a very bad idea for me and the only way I kept going with daycare was to move to a house with a basement. I think providers using their own living space burn out MUCH faster!
I agree. I am trying to use one room and the garage. Since our basement isn't ready yet. And won't be for a while.
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Originally posted by cheerfuldom View PostI use mostly a basement that is dedicated to daycare. Using my actual living space was a very bad idea for me and the only way I kept going with daycare was to move to a house with a basement. I think providers using their own living space burn out MUCH faster!So true! I think if I had to do this job in my own home, I would have been a permanent resident at the hospital down the street from dEHmom. (i.e. psychiatric ward
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Environment is so important in early childhood. Not only to the provider for stress, structure and sanity but for the children especially. The environment tells us how to behave and how to use items and things. The environment plays a VERY large role in mood, diposition and overall state of mind.
I think it is very important to not only pay attention to the obvious things but even the little things such as color, lighting levels, noise levels, secondary noises, etc. etc...
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Originally posted by Blackcat31 View PostSo true! I think if I had to do this job in my own home, I would have been a permanent resident at the hospital down the street from dEHmom. (i.e. psychiatric ward
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Environment is so important in early childhood. Not only to the provider for stress, structure and sanity but for the children especially. The environment tells us how to behave and how to use items and things. The environment plays a VERY large role in mood, diposition and overall state of mind.
I think it is very important to not only pay attention to the obvious things but even the little things such as color, lighting levels, noise levels, secondary noises, etc. etc...
Great Post!
athomemommy, to answer your question. What I do to keep some sanity, is use storage items that match my decor/style. I hide things under my sofa (mostly infant items) I have a entertainment system with doors that close off the art supplies. The actual daycare room is in my dinning room, I working on putting up curtains to close the entry way (no door their) out of sight out of mine!
Hope this helps
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I use my sunroom and dining room if necessary. The way it's set up they only leave their "area" to take trips to the bathroom. The sunroom leads out to the backyard so they are more than happy to hang out there all day! It's also good for my sanity and my daughter's because I have therapy clients who do daycare in their homes and they have unhappy children because the children feel as though they have to "share" everything. So my daughter hangs out in the livingroom when she wants to and her toys are all separate. It also helps me out for when the kids are gone home and I want to look at an adult room without all the colors! ::
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My house is small, I have a space that I used as a formal dining room, I moved the dining set to the eat in kitchen, little cramped but it works, and now use the DR for DC only. Is better that way, I could not imagine using my entire house for this, I would go crazy. They do use the living room sometimes to watch TV but they know not to make messes in there, I also use my son's room to change diapers and what I am doing lately is bringing a book basket so they can look at books while I change diapers, this way they won't touch my son's toys and my son won't get frustrated and wont start his usual screaming.
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We have a living room and family room on our main floor so I turned the family room into our daycare playroom. It has two doors, one to the kitchen, and one to the main door. So it's nice at the end of the day that I can close the doors and the daycare is 'gone'.
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