Family Day Care Vent! Can she do this??

[Floweryfields]

I would say she's doing it because financially she'll be better off with two children from one family. I don't think she's obligated to give you the place first, that certainly would be the professional thing to do.
As someone said, if she's so hard to get onto, then you might be better off finding someone else anyway. What if there was an emergency that you needed to contact her about? Though she's probably got caller ID and didn't want to talk to you until she saw the other family.

[AliBaby]

Girls thanks for listening and your advice.

Sunshine- I was looking for your msg and realised later it was on my mobile thanks hun.
Shell & Ausgirl- You are so right. If she cant answer my calls now, what if it was an emergency!

Well good news. I took all of your advice and decided to ring around. On my calls, I noticed that my favourite childcare centre has jsut opened another centre almost on my doorstep.

Massive waiting list but because the centre directer knew my brothers (who went to the same childcare but a different centre) I got to jump the entire queue and have DD in to start in February!!!

SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW

Its obviously more exxy than FDC but it will be more reliable, they do all the meals which are prepared on the premises, lovely hot meals, fresh food, they provide all the nappies and also milk when they on cows milk!

So happy that my day went from crapola to outstanding!!! YAY!

[briggsy's girl]

it sucks from your perspective, but as previously mentioned, the carer is self employed and she needs to run her "business" as effectively as possible - if she takes on a family with 2 kids she is going to be doing better financially than taking on a single child from one family and then hoping to get another family with a single child to fill the other space. it can be harder to fill single positions, and can also be harder for families with multiple children needing care to actually find care. i know mum hasn't done FDC for a number of years now, but when she was doing it, she was getting calls all the time about specific family structures fitting in due to limiting the number of children in the house at any time (school age/non school age, taking us kids into account blah blah blah)

i would definitely be getting the contact details of some more local carers so that you can cover your bases as well

ETA - posted at same time - yay for the day having a turnaround!

[BekZ]

I reckon the universe just did you a favour hun I bet your DD is so happy with her new daycare..all the best