Helping the Little One’s Breathe Freely
All through high college, I regularly dreamed of opening my own daycare… I even took child care courses in high college that gained me my 40 hour child care certificate so that I could work in a daycare, and but, I didn’t want to work in a respected daycare.
I feel children thrive better when they are cared for by people who know them personally and adore them.
I knew that if I opened a traditional daycare some day, I would be involved more in the paperwork and day to day operations than in the hands on care of children, which is what I really wanted. I wanted to teach these children their letters, numbers, shapes and colors, to tie their shoes and color in the lines, and become an crucial part of their lives. I get a lot of support from my parents, so, when I graduated, they helped me rent a home that I could live in but was large enough to use as a house daycare. I had a playroom/classroom and a room for napping and time out, and a lavatory identifiably for the children, however the only complication was that the rental came with a basic central heating and cooling system and I needed an air cleaner for my house daycare; Dad and Dad didn’t have the money to buy me a home, so I had to depend on portable room air cleaners for the first few years, until I had money to buy my own home and have a whole home purification system installed, until then, the portable room air cleaners did really help. I was able to take in a baby with asthma, and another child with allergies and keep them comfortable and healthy. The little room air cleaners made it so the little ones can breathe freely.