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[quote=Anonymous]As a home daycare what I notice is that they are trying to make home care more like center care with the regulations. Because every home is different with different layouts it is not possible to do that. What I think is happening is Maryland is trying to phase out home daycares. People should be worried about this because that means those cover an infant spots would become even more rare.  With the push for pre-K starting at age 3, that means daycares would only have two infants and two-year-olds which is not a good business model and many would have to close because they don’t have enough children to make a living.

We also have to deal with the wishy-washiness and individual interpretation from each licensing specialist on what is compliant or not compliant. I will give you an example. A friend of mine who also owns an in-home daycare was cited for having a laundry in her living room. Another person was cited for having shampoo bottles in her own bathroom. Obviously, these items would not be in a center but are present in any family home. I could list many more things and even a couple years ago there was talk of requiring us to have college degrees in early childhood education, I believe that was taken out of consideration.

Since I am licensed I obviously want to be right with the state and want to do my best for these children so I think that there is a place for commonsense regulations, and I follow all of the regulations that are in place . There are the regulations I feel are put in place for regulations’ sake and like I said to make us in line with centers, which we are not. [/quote]

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