Im switching FLIPPING daycares... - enough is enough!

mummy2girls wrote: after i talked to the director and she reassurred me that this lady will never be working with the toddlers and she is under surpervision...as that other parent complained too. so i dropped jenna off for a couple hours. I wouldnt be doing this but i talked to the child subsidy office and because she was gone sooo many hours last month i need to get more this month. even if it means 2 hours a day to do it. As they dont want to see my subsidy taken away. I was very leary but again i talked to the director and said that im to a point where i wont take crap because of what happened with the last dre centre jenna was in! And she knows i reported the other one!

i go to get jenna around 4pm. I walk in and the director says that a worker is outside with the toddlers. So i go into the toddler room and get her things ready for home.and then i notice that both her sippy cups were full of milk so she wasnt given any milk. I can hear as the door to the outside play area was open...and i hear jenna screaming a god awful scream and then start to cry! I dropped everything and head for outside, as i was coming toward the corner of the building ready to go around i hear the worker yell at jenna! She says ENOUGH JENNA!!!! SHUSH ALREADY! i was livid! I came around the corner and the look on the workers face was just priceless. she did not expect me so soon! I picked jenna up as she was sitting in the sand. I looked at the worker and said that jenna hates the sand and is scared of it for some reason! I know you dont know this but why would you force her to sit in it when you hear her cry like that? she didnt say anything.then i asked her why jenna wasnt given any milk. and she said she tried but she didnt want any! Which i find very odd because jenna never passes up milk ever. and when she got home and i gave her one of the sippys she gulped it down! so i walked out and had a chat with the director. Ive had enough !!!!!! no more!

Jamison'smama replied: Yikes---poor baby girl! So glad you stood up to both the teachers and the director! You do whatever it takes to make sure your baby is taken care of and treated well!! That is just so unacceptable.

kimberley replied: unbelievable! poor Jenna! i hope you can find another daycare or this one straightens out their act!

lsjulee replied: Oh my!!! How terrible!!

loveydad replied: Daycares can be horrible. Matthew was at a daycare when he was shaken to death. I almost killed her. I swear.

Recently at the twin's preschool, a teacher describe to them IN DEPTH all the natural disastors, what fires were, what NUCLEUR WAR was, and when Kel asked her what would happen she said "oh don't worry, you wouldn't live through it."

I never took the kids back there. I was so freaking pissed.

The daycare in town here kinda sucks too. There's only 1-2 teachers for about 20-30 kids.

momof2girls replied: That is awful!!
Pleasse make sure you make a formal complaint.
Ive been so blessed that I have not had to use childcare but I can understand how upset you are!!!

Josie83 replied: Shelly that is awful, I would be so annoyed if anyone treated Cassie like that you totally did the right thing! I hope she's okay. And Loveydad, it is horrible your baby was killed in that why, I don't know what else to say xx

aspenblue1 replied: That is horrible! I would be very angry and file a complaint. I hope you find another daycare soon.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: I'm sorry you are having so many problems with the Daycares. I hope you find one that both you and Jenna will be comfortable. I would definately talk to the supervisor again, explain all of your concerns to her and let her know that you are feeling frustrated and that you are thinking of putting Jenna into another Daycare. It might be a problem with just a few employees and they might need to replace these people. I'm definately not saying to keep Jenna there if you are not comfortable, but I'm saying to give the Daycare a chance to respond to your concerns.

amynicole21 replied: Ugh! If they don't fire her, they aren't doing their job.

Kaitlin'smom replied: so did they ever give you a reason she was asleep on the job?

URG I would be livid also, file a formal complaint it the only way to get your point across, I am glad you were able to suprise the worker. I am so glad to have a privet sitter, daycare scares me.

I hope you finda a new better daycare or get the right peopel fired to make that one better, how frustrating

Boys r us replied: That is so sad!! I would have been really upset too! Have you ever thought about maybe getting a private daycare provider? One that would dote Jenna with attention and know her likes and dislikes, one that Jenna can come to love as a second mother?

A&A'smommy replied: OMG THAT ***** I cannot believe that!!!! What a horrible woman she should be fired for that!!!!! I hope you find a wonderful place for Jenna I errr that makes me so mad! Poor baby girl!!! (((((HUGS))))) to both of you!

ediep replied: OH No!!!!!! I would be LIVID too!!!!! She should be fired!!!

also, I was wondering....wouldn't it make sense for a daycre to ask the parents if there are things that the kids don't like, or are afriad of? For instance, the sand....I would want the daycare to know that so the poor kid isn't forced to sit in it!

3_call_me_mama replied:
I am very soory that you child was mistreated at a daycare, I would feel the same way if i were you. And explaining to children about things like natural disasters is part of being a teacher, the in depthness is not necessary or it should be for a parent to elaborate on.

But in respects to the amount of children allowed to adults in a daycare is set by the state, not by the individual daycare. If it is a state licensed facility they are required to have a certain amount of staff for a certain amount of childrne depending on the ages of the children. So in VT a daycare could have 20 preschool age students (3-5 yrs) and have 1 adult. If these ratios aren't acceptable to parents then they need to look for small home daycare settings that aren't allowed as many kids but also aren't as heavily regulated by the state.

I'm not trying to start an argument or anything but it really bothers me when people rag on all daycares just because they had a bad experience at on or two places. I own a licensed daycare center, we have 34 children enrolled, and 9 employees. But there are several times a day when there are only 2-3 people there because of the ages of the kids and the # of kids that are there at that time.

It is fabulous that several people are able to stay home with their children and not work or work from home, but for most of the nation that is not an option. I did not want to enroll my child in a daycare where he would be away from me for so long each day so that I could teach, so instead I used my teaching degree and license to opena place where other people could leave their kids while I was still able to do some teaching (i teach the preschool) and be with my child most of the day.

Unfortunately there are some bad daycares out there that squeak by states laws and things, but it doesn't mean all daycares are horrible. Also it would be nice once in a while to have a parent sa how wonderful they feel their child is cared for while they are at daycare. I'm sure several parents are THRILLED with their daycares and never post about it, but everyone seems to be really quick to jump on the HORRIBLE DAYCARE BANDWAGON!

Sorry if I upset anyone..... It's a touchy topic with me... and generally people on these parenting boards haven't been very nice about daycares. Usually it's stay at home moms/dada that really get into it. (not saying that all stay at home moms/dads are that way but it was that way on another board i used to post on..... you were sort of blacklisted if you had to work and put your kid in daycare or if you worked at a daycare)


Anyways.. now that I rambled... and probably really upset some people.... sorry again.. just my

TLCDad replied: You might want to consider a daycare that provides an internet web came up 100% of the day. Not only is this a great way to be able to watch your child while you are at work, I'm sure it would cause the daycare to use and hire only really qualified and nice workers because they will be on camera at all times.

A&A'smommy replied:
NO I totally agree there some REALLY good day cares out there in fact someday I would love to get licensed and maybe one day open a daycare. I live by a day care that has a WONDERFUL reputation and if I had to go to work I didn't have the option of my mother watching her I would take alyssa there. I don't think you upset anyone!