I was promoting my daycare business at one of the various online sites where I advertise and clicked on the "Review Rebuttals" tab.
I've checked on my reviews various times since I have been back in the daycare business. The review section of my daycare ad remained neglected.
I expected to find more of the same when I habitually clicked on that tab that day. I was wrong.
What I found instead was a 97 per cent rating and a short paragraph describing what one of my previous parents had liked about bringing their child to my daycare.
First of all, I was in awe. I wondered who it was that left such kindness in their wake. The wonder of it all. Someone likes me. They really like me!
Then (do we all do this or is it just me?) I wondered "Why only 97 per cent? What did I do wrong?"
I clicked onto the details and found that my downfall was my meals. Why would that surprise me? I am not a big fan of cooking. Period. But cooking to try to please the finicky appetites of the little people I presently have in my care is really a challenge. I have been trying so hard to get these kids to eat anything at all, I am doing whatever it takes to tempt their appetites (and it isn't all healthy).
Then I looked again. They gave me a rating of about 4.25 out of 5 for my meals. A five out of five rating on everything else.
I got a score that high on my meal planning? Suddenly I was back on my cloud. I can cook. I really can cook.
A few kind words left by an unnamed friend of my past made my morning. Spread a little kindness around today. You just never know what an impact you could make.
