I've recently interviewed a few childminders. I found 'the one' (very happy) but I now have to let the others know. I'm not sure whether I should give feedback on why I didn't choose them?
One of them I had a few issues and I'm not sure if it would be helpful to let her know about them:
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We thought the TV would be on too much (large widescreen in play room and reading between the lines of our discussion we thought it would be on quite regularly)
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She already had 3 under 5s (I know she would be 'allowed' a fourth because the youngest was a sibling) but was saying about how since the rules had changed there were no limits. I know from on here that's not correct and she may have misunderstood.
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She passed me a mug of hot coffee over the top of DDs head (could have easily walked up to me from a different angle).
I don't want to sound judgy and I'm not sure how I can feed these back to her in a nice way, she did seem a nice lady.
Lastly, one of the other childminders was very good, very professional and was a close contender. The main reason I didn't choose her was because I felt she would have a more teacher/pupil relationship with DD and I chose the childminder who was more towards the parent/child end of the scale. I want to give positive feedback to her as she was very good but DH thinks she would be insulted by saying this?