Akron woman offers free daycare for job-seeking parents [Video]

AKRON, Ohio — At Flower Garden Early Childcare Center in Akron, owner Candace Haynes plants seeds in little minds each day.

“Good morning! Good morning!” Candace says to her kids.

She teaches lessons in letters and numbers and even a little patience. It’s what she’s always dreamed of since she was a little girl.

“My graded papers that I got back from school, I would pass them out to my stuffed animals and I would just pretend like that was my classroom,” Candace said. “But then life happened and I didn’t really believe in myself. I didn’t think that I could do it.”

She got married, moved out of state and had two children. Then, everything fell apart.

“There was some domestic violence going on. I had some custody issues, the back and forth sort of thing. So I’ve experienced a lot,” she said. “I moved back …