All through school, I always dreamed of opening my own daycare.
- I even took child care courses in high school that gave me my 40 hour child care certificate so that I could pursue a job in daycare.
But, I didn’t want to work in a proper daycare. I feel children thrive better when they are cared for by people who know them personally and love them. I knew that if I opened a traditional daycare some day, I would be involved more in the paperwork and the day to day tasks 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 to color inside the lines, and become an important 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 big enough to use as a home daycare. I had a playroom/classroom in addition to a room for napping in time out, and a bathroom just for the children, the only problem was that the rental came with a basic central heating and cooling plan andI needed an air purification system for my home daycare. Mom and Dad didn’t have the money to buy me a home, so I had to depend on my portable air purifiers for the first few years, until I had money to buy my own home and have a whole home air purification system installed. Until then, the portable air purifiers did really help. I was able to take in a baby with asthma, and another child with allergies and was able to keep them comfortable in and healthy. The little air purifiers made it so the little one’s can breathe freely.