Monday, January 02, 2006
A brand new year....
I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and is refreshed and ready to start a new year... 2006.
I predict that 2006 will be an exciting and challenging year for child care professionals. There will be increased emphasis on quality of care with the upcoming Quality Rating System and more media on providing school readiness. This may be the year that we actually begin a distinction between quality care and average care.
These are not bad things... in fact, these are changes that our profession should embrace. But they are changes and human nature tends not to accept change readily. Especially we self-employed child care providers. The last thing we want is for someone to tell us how to run our business and how we should be doing things differently.
But, I hope that you keep an open mind in regards to all the upcoming changes. In the long run, they will be good for us, good for our profession, and most importantly, good for the children.
Enough of playing Nostradomus for now... I'll leave you with a new resource link to start out 2006. FreeKidsColoring is a great site to print off coloring pages for your children to be creative and artistic with. Enjoy!
I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and is refreshed and ready to start a new year... 2006.
I predict that 2006 will be an exciting and challenging year for child care professionals. There will be increased emphasis on quality of care with the upcoming Quality Rating System and more media on providing school readiness. This may be the year that we actually begin a distinction between quality care and average care.
These are not bad things... in fact, these are changes that our profession should embrace. But they are changes and human nature tends not to accept change readily. Especially we self-employed child care providers. The last thing we want is for someone to tell us how to run our business and how we should be doing things differently.
But, I hope that you keep an open mind in regards to all the upcoming changes. In the long run, they will be good for us, good for our profession, and most importantly, good for the children.
Enough of playing Nostradomus for now... I'll leave you with a new resource link to start out 2006. FreeKidsColoring is a great site to print off coloring pages for your children to be creative and artistic with. Enjoy!
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 5:22 PM 
