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4230-4 B. RATIO AND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS An In-home caregiver may bring their own children if written permission is given from the family and if with the caregiver’s own children there are no more than five (5) children in care. The In-home Child Care Parent / Caregiver Agreement CC18 must be completed, signed by both the parent and their In-home caregiver and submitted to the Designee. In-home caregivers must:

1. Provide the parent with access to their children at all times;

2. Provide direct care and supervision of children at all times;

3. Provide a level of supervision that is appropriate to the child’sage and developmental needs that is adequate to prevent injury;

4. Provide daily activities to promote the child’s individual physical, social, intellectual, and emotional development that includes time for meals, snacks, sleep, toileting, and indoor and outdoor exercise; and

5. Prevent exposure of children to high-risk situations, including exposure to physical hazards and encounters with individuals or animals posing a possibledanger.

4230-4 C. BEHAVIOR GUIDANCE An In-home caregiver must help children in care develop age- appropriate patterns of behavior that will foster constructive relationships and increase the child’s ability to deal with everyday life. Discipline of children in care must never be cruel, humiliating, or otherwise damaging to a child. Appropriate discipline techniques are positive reinforcement, redirection, and realistic expectations and clear and consistent limit setting. A child may not be: 1. Removed from the other children for more than ten (10) minutes if the child is a young child, except if the child has a pattern of out of control behavior. In this instance the child may be removed from the company of other children until the child’s behavior has stabilized. A Plan of Care for a Child with Special Needs CC89 must be developed with the child’s parent to address the behavior issues;