Originally Posted by SilverSabre25:
Can I ask what your reasons are for advertising when you don't actually have space available and what you tell parents who contact you looking for care?
I tell them I am taking a waiting list. Some of the parents are just starting to look for work and they want to try to line up childcare first. I always let them come for a 30 minute interview and this way they can see my daycare and we talk about rules. I feel this gives the parent a feel of me and me a feel of the parent. Then I tell them to call me if they get a job to see if I have an opening.
Also I feel this is a good way to get your daycare out there. If you don't have the opening when they do find a job and they have to go to another daycare, there is always the chance your daycare name will come up in conversations with friends, neighbors, and co workers.
Like the parents I interviewed with the 2 week old baby, dad works at a very large apartment complex and mom works in a eye doctor office, so who knows who they might tell about my daycare
