child care provider chores (starting new thread...)

I am starting a new thread since this has gone afield of the original. I 
think some inferences were made on context by what folks may have meant so
I 
am going to clarify my position (I hope).

I don't have any issue with any parent who does not want their care
provider 
to drive their children.

My response was specifically around the posts in which I saw a sentiment 
that if a person pays a provider to care for their child they should be 
watching the child. Perhaps the strictness of the sentence was hyperbole
in 
response to the previous notition that one *must* drive while caring for a

child as with "carting my child around all day."

As a provider, it would have been a significant burden not to spend some
of 
the almost 11 1/2 hours a day the kids were in my care not addressing
chores 
related to the maintenance of the house that said care was happening in. 
Even on those days later in my stint when I had only one child in my care,

it would not have made sense to spend every minute of those 10 hours 
playing, reading, painting. We both would have gone bug eyed!

None of my clients ever objected if the small percent of time I spent 
managing the house included something like laundry as opposed to meal 
planning, or cooking the family dinner (lord knows it better not be more 
complicated than mac n cheese) as many of the child care related chores 
could not be done until the children had left. All this talk of driving, 
even if I had had a car big enough for everyone, I would not have chosen
to 
take 8 to 10 children to the grocery store or hardware store or whatever!
It 
rather all works out in the end with no need to micromanage a provider's 
time if you trust that your end goal and hers (most often) are the same; 
excellent care, nurturing, activities, nutricion, environment for the 
children in her care.

I figure I would clarify my meaning since I think there were many 
assumptions of context and meaning that what we all really meant was
getting 
lost.

Cheers.

Stephanie