How often have you heard this statement? I have heard it a great deal in an early care and education career that has seen six decades of discussion about what is the right mix of rules and regulations, the basic protections for children while in out of home child care. Recently, in the early care and education field, there has been a great deal of discussion about deregulation of early care and education standards/rules/regulations in order to have increased access to child care (National Association for the Education of Young Children: NAEYC, 2024). This discussion or controversy has been going on for a long time, it is nothing new. I remember back in the early 1970’s when I was directing the Mary Elizabeth Keister Infant Toddler Demonstration Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and there were discussions about the revision to the Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements (FIDCR). What was the right mix, the balance of protections and quality enhancements for young children in child care that the Federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare wanted to promulgate nationally.