Phew! All these interviews are making me tired :o)

This morning City TV phoned to ask if they could interview me for the news tonight. I said pretty much the same thing as last time "Uh, do I have time to brush my hair?"

More deets to come...

Here's the deets:

It wasn't what I was hoping for. I think I made some very good points and strong statements and what came out on the actual video was in a word...meh

I said "I have a police clearance, social services check, first aid/cpr, child safety house, references and a lot of experience with children - what I don't have is that piece of paper that says I'm licensed. "

And I'm sure you can all guess what was aired:

"What I don't have is that piece of paper that says I'm licensed."

Hmm...not what I was hoping for at all.

On the upside to things - Andrea was a freaking SUPERSTAR!!! She got most of the air time but made so many important points that I had also stated. But, hearing it come from a parent was probably a lot more powerful than coming from the unlicensed provider.

Oh yeah, they also aired me saying something like "It's a lot of word of mouth, if you're good - people will find out about you and if you're not - people will know." Doesn't really make sense but in my head it did, I think if they played the sentence before and after it would have sounded better but whatevs, what's done is done.

And off to the dayhome meeting I went.

There were mixed feelings there too. Yes, it was good to talk to TV but no, the private dayhome provider wasn't portrayed as a comparable service b/c they failed to mention that WE HAVE POLICE CLEARANCES/CHILD WELFARE CHECKS AS WELL AS LICENSED FACILITIES. I think we're back to square one again.

Do you think the TV station will allow me to do a rebuttal?

Didn't think so...