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I do not allow anything to be brought from the home. If I watch school age children, they must leave everything in their bookbag which stays in their cubbies at all times while the child is in my daycare home.
I would not allow cell phone use in my daycare at all. I would probably rather them put their cell phones in a container (bucket or whatever) on the counter where they were out of the children's reach but I could check them initally to make sure they were not set to record anything.
Here are some potential problems
child takes pics of other children in daycare and place their pics on the internet - which that particular child would not have permission from the other children's parents to have done.
child pulls up ***** on the internet - most likely won't happen, but the provider really can not monitor what the child is doing on the cell phone - basically, the child's behavior on the phone is unsupervised. If found out that did happen, the daycare provider would be in all sorts of trouble with the child's parents, licensing, and the law!
child starts problems with other children through facebook or other internet sites - if found out that happened while under your supervision, you might have problems with the parents of both families and maybe the law - if things between the children get too out of control - afterall, you are supposed to be supervising the child's behavior, so if the child harrasses/bullies another person especially excessively while under your supervision, you might be responsible for allowing that to happen.
child records things said at daycare - which sometimes, things taken out of content can be misunderstood - the daycare provider, having really done nothing wrong might have to explain something that the child has recorded and has proof of that doesn't sound so good - even though the provider knows that it's only a portion of what was being said/happinging. Simply put, the provider does not need any extra worry by a child being able to record whatever bits and pieces they want.
Then of course simple things such as the phone being broken by another child and the parents trying to make the provider pay for a new phone, the unfairness to the other children ( there aren't additional phones for everyone to be able to have one and the one child won't share his one phone), it makes the child with the cell phone be withdrawn from the socialization of the others that are physically around him and he becomes personally anti-social, etc.
I would not allow cell phone use in my daycare at all. I would probably rather them put their cell phones in a container (bucket or whatever) on the counter where they were out of the children's reach but I could check them initally to make sure they were not set to record anything.
Here are some potential problems
child takes pics of other children in daycare and place their pics on the internet - which that particular child would not have permission from the other children's parents to have done.
child pulls up ***** on the internet - most likely won't happen, but the provider really can not monitor what the child is doing on the cell phone - basically, the child's behavior on the phone is unsupervised. If found out that did happen, the daycare provider would be in all sorts of trouble with the child's parents, licensing, and the law!
child starts problems with other children through facebook or other internet sites - if found out that happened while under your supervision, you might have problems with the parents of both families and maybe the law - if things between the children get too out of control - afterall, you are supposed to be supervising the child's behavior, so if the child harrasses/bullies another person especially excessively while under your supervision, you might be responsible for allowing that to happen.
child records things said at daycare - which sometimes, things taken out of content can be misunderstood - the daycare provider, having really done nothing wrong might have to explain something that the child has recorded and has proof of that doesn't sound so good - even though the provider knows that it's only a portion of what was being said/happinging. Simply put, the provider does not need any extra worry by a child being able to record whatever bits and pieces they want.
Then of course simple things such as the phone being broken by another child and the parents trying to make the provider pay for a new phone, the unfairness to the other children ( there aren't additional phones for everyone to be able to have one and the one child won't share his one phone), it makes the child with the cell phone be withdrawn from the socialization of the others that are physically around him and he becomes personally anti-social, etc.
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