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Biting Child: New To My Daycare
I need advice quickly in this situation. I just found this forum and am new to it, so I will be very happy to see your responses and advice.
Here is my situation: I have a new client that just contacted me about watching her 18 month old daughter in my large family home day care. Recently, I instituted a new thing here at my daycare called "Play-dates". We utilize play-dates as a transitional, warm-up period for a new child. Basically, the parent accompanies the child on two or three different, one to three hour play-dates at the daycare, so that the child can become more comfortable in our environment. Well, the little girl and her mom joined us for a play-date today and while we were preparing lunch she was sitting in a high chair and out of the blue she bit the little girl sitting in the high chair next to her. I had turned my back for 1.5 seconds. The mom and I saw what was happening at the exact same time. Her mom, was mortified and embarrassed and took her into the next room as a time out and talked to her, telling her that it was not ok to bite, etc. . . This was her second play-date with us. Additionally, on her very first visit to the daycare, which was not a play-date, but the first day her parents came to see if they even liked my daycare, she bit me as well. I told the mother of the child who was bit, what happened to her daughter and her eye brows raised. I know that she did not appreciated it. She seemed satisfied, though, that the mother reprimanded her daughter.
:confused:
Not sure what to do in this situation. Should I use the 2 or 3 play-dates as like a probation type of period to see if a child will blend well into our daycare and if they display behaviors that could be problematic I can use it to turn people away OR should I go ahead, only use it as a warming up period for the child and accept her and just keep an eye on her like a hawk. Is this something I should just learn to handle, because I am a child care provider?
Thx
Here is my situation: I have a new client that just contacted me about watching her 18 month old daughter in my large family home day care. Recently, I instituted a new thing here at my daycare called "Play-dates". We utilize play-dates as a transitional, warm-up period for a new child. Basically, the parent accompanies the child on two or three different, one to three hour play-dates at the daycare, so that the child can become more comfortable in our environment. Well, the little girl and her mom joined us for a play-date today and while we were preparing lunch she was sitting in a high chair and out of the blue she bit the little girl sitting in the high chair next to her. I had turned my back for 1.5 seconds. The mom and I saw what was happening at the exact same time. Her mom, was mortified and embarrassed and took her into the next room as a time out and talked to her, telling her that it was not ok to bite, etc. . . This was her second play-date with us. Additionally, on her very first visit to the daycare, which was not a play-date, but the first day her parents came to see if they even liked my daycare, she bit me as well. I told the mother of the child who was bit, what happened to her daughter and her eye brows raised. I know that she did not appreciated it. She seemed satisfied, though, that the mother reprimanded her daughter.
:confused:
Not sure what to do in this situation. Should I use the 2 or 3 play-dates as like a probation type of period to see if a child will blend well into our daycare and if they display behaviors that could be problematic I can use it to turn people away OR should I go ahead, only use it as a warming up period for the child and accept her and just keep an eye on her like a hawk. Is this something I should just learn to handle, because I am a child care provider?
Thx
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