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Helping a friend with their kids? Beware! - 10/3/2009 4:04:14 PM   
fiery


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If you take in your friend's kids for an hour before school FOR FREE to make sure they get the bus okay, you're operating an unlicensed child care center according to Michigan law.

This is nonsense. How many moms need that help to be able to get to work on time themselves?! Ridiculous that you can't do a pal a favor.

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Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.


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RE: Helping a friend with their kids? Beware! - 10/3/2009 9:22:57 PM   
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someone always seems to have a hand in everything we do - I told hubby things like this is why I don't offer to anything for any one.

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RE: Helping a friend with their kids? Beware! - 10/4/2009 2:38:31 PM   
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When I looked at it again I got the impression that someone had an axe to grind with the lady because it said they were responding to a neighbor's complaint. Really, would it have been so hard for them to use commonsense here and see it was a pal doing a favor and most likely someone being vindictive for whatever reason? This is why community spirit is dead and buried.

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RE: Helping a friend with their kids? Beware! - 10/8/2009 1:22:03 PM   
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You know the more I think about that the more crazy it is. When we were small we'd sometimes go to our next door neighbor to be looked after if there was some kind of family emergency that my parents had to attend to. Their kids came to us a few times as well. How can you be a good friend and neighbor when you have to worry about stuff like that? 

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