Summer is almost over and for families with little children, the hunt for a reliable daycare center is on.

Finding a daycare is not as easy as some people think. Parents are especially picky about this because they will be entrusting their children to someone else. That someone else have to be qualified and truly capable of taking care of their most precious ones.

A friend of mine thought that having a daycare just a few houses away from them would be a blessing. In fact, she was complacement and appease knowing that the lady who runs it is someone she happens to be friends it, being a neighbor.

But as it turns out, the decision to leave her daughter with the neighbor who runs a daycare center wasn’t exactly good for her. Because it’s basically a business, the mindset of the neighbor, whom she taught was a friend, was to run the business without regard for anything else.

When a new child came in and needed to be in the daycare longer, thus more hours and more fees, my friend’s neighbor had to let go of her slot, opting for that other family. Because they could offer more money.

Another friend had sent her child to a daycare center where there was little regard for cleanliness and sanitation that every time her son comes home, it seems that he’s always infected with someone’s cold or cough. She had to report the center for this, and was resented by other parents who were less understanding of the situation.

Do you have horror stories about daycare centers? What’s the best advise you can give to parents finding one?

It is the modern age and for most people, the need to sacrifice is apparent. The same is the case when it comes to daily routines where parents have to report for work thus being forced to surrender kids to daycare centers. The problem is when a parent worries on how his or her child is doing. The TLC Learning Academy in Southaven may have a solution for that.

The TLC Learning Academy in Southaven should prove to be a fit gauge to this concern. TLC has live streaming video cameras — 21 in total throughout the center. Each is accessible online so parents can watch their children while at work.

Shari Robbins, the program director at TLC, said the kid-vision cameras have been a great selling point for parents. She added that they’re also a great tool for keeping an eye on TLC’s employees. “We want to have that accountability so parents know we’re doing our job,” she said.

The program is password-protected and completely secure. Each child can have up to three adults with access to the live feed. Robbins said some families use this as a way for out-of-town grandparents to see their grandchildren.

(Source)My Fox