'Illegal' Daycare?

[JDC48160]

State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids - Yahoo! News

WTF?

I guess my grandmother was breaking the law for YEARS when me and my little sister were young.

We'd walk over to her house every morning before school, have breakfast there, then catch the bus. Get dropped back off in the afternoon to her house, and wait until our mom and dad got home from work around 5:30pm. Did this every day from kindergarten until midway thru my 6th grade year when we moved to Milan from Ann Arbor. We also spent everyday of the summer at my grandparents place.

Hell, I always tell people my grandmother basically raised me. I think I spent more time with her and my grandfather than my parents when we lived next door to them in Ann Arbor. All because my parents both worked the same work hours.

[MoOff24]

haha yeah I just read this about 10 minutes ago. funny stuff.

[Fletch]

This had better get thrown out soon, just ridiculous

[Marklar]

State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids - Yahoo! News

WTF?

I guess my grandmother was breaking the law for YEARS when me and my little sister were young.

to be fair, the law is for "unrelated" children. You are related to your grandmother.

[Agent300]

to be fair, the law is for "unrelated" children. You are related to your grandmother.

beat me to it

[jdustu]

That's hilarious. I grew up in that little town. I heard they were on Good Morning America this morning.

[RickFromFowler]

Our neighbor across the street watched us for years before we went to school..

and then my folks watched their kids after school.

It was like having two sets of parents in town.

Parental involvement, community interaction, damn.. lets not have any of that.. that's make that against the law..

[The Great Gazoo]

Stupid...

this is normal probably all over the place...good lord, who didn't go to friend's or neighbor's houses when their parents were not home...

[det2orl]

Our neighbor across the street watched us for years before we went to school..

and then my folks watched their kids after school.

It was like having two sets of parents in town.

Parental involvement, community interaction, damn.. lets not have any of that.. that's make that against the law..

Exactly, a neighbor down the street watched me after school until my Mother got home for a couple years in elementary school.

I have pretty fond memories of that time. She used to make me a sandwich and have those potato chips that came in the tin for me for lunch everyday.

Its called being a community. This is some stupid s---.

[SportsFromA2]

just one of those old antiquated laws we have (like the no swearing law, remember that?).. will be changed soon enough:

On Tuesday, agency Director Ismael Ahmed said good neighbors should be allowed to help each other ensure their children are safe. Gov. Jennifer Granholm instructed Ahmed to work with the state Legislature to change the law, he said.

"Being a good neighbor means helping your neighbors who are in need," Ahmed said in a written statement. "This could be as simple as providing a cup of sugar, monitoring their house while they're on vacation or making sure their children are safe while they wait for the school bus."

Snyder learned that the agency was responding to a neighbor's complaint.

Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said the agency was following standard procedure in its response. "But we feel this (law) really gets in the way of common sense," Boyd said.

"We want to protect kids, but the law needs to be reasonable," she said. "When the governor learned of this, she acted quickly and called the director personally to ask him to intervene."

State Rep. Brian Calley, R-Portland, said he was working to draft legislation that would exempt situations like Snyder's from coverage under Michigan's current day care regulations.

The bill will make it clear that people who aren't in business as day care providers don't need to be licensed, Calley said.

[The Great Gazoo]

just one of those old antiquated laws we have (like the no swearing law, remember that?).. will be changed soon enough:

Snyder learned that the agency was responding to a neighbor's complaint.

find the neighbor and beat with a stick...