If there’s one thing that every parent has had to learn the hard way, through experience, it is this – that parents are always wrong. Whatever we choose to do as parents, a friends’ parents are doing differently, or whatever we think is good advice to follow today, was scrapped by everyone else yesterday. Being a parent is hard work, and after all those childhood years resenting our own parents and vowing that we would do things so much better if only given the chance, we are now well aware that we are the very parents that we vowed we’d try not to be as children. It might well be the case that we’re not making the same mistakes as our parents, but we’re excellent at making whole rafts of new ones to make life interesting for ourselves and our children.

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I've just gone through a period of losing a number of old staff and having to replace them with a new team.  It never rains but it pours!  Change is always hard as is the recruitment process especially in childcare when the right people are vital.  I've been fortunate and gathered together some great employees but it wasn't easy.  Still, going throught the steps of recruiting forced me to freshen up some of my staff paper work and update everybody, old and new. Aside from our normal staff induction including our policies and procedures I now have all new employees read the parent handbook and contract also.  That way everyone – me, staff and parents – are definitely on the same page.  Fresh blood brings fresh perspective and while the transition period can be difficult we should embrace change as an opportunity to break out of our staid routines and improve our service.

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