Fully Expecting Termination

[AmyLeigh]

Ahhhh....now I get it.
Kinda like the parent who asks the doc to prescribe Ritalin because Junior is not behaving.....
Parenting in pill form. Interesting.

[3kidzmama]

Tylenol dad asked to see the regulation that says I can't give Tylenol. There is no regulation stating those words but it says " Ill children must remain seperated until picked up by parents or guardians.

Ugh.

Interesting that I read this post today.... I had a DCM pull her 5 mo. old dcb this afternoon from my daycare because I refused to give him tylenol. I made the choice to stop administering OTC medicines and will only give prescription meds if the label indicates a specific time for the dosage and if the child is in attendance at the specified time. Also, I reserve the right to refuse even those meds if the medicine is for a contagious illness.
I made the decision to do this several weeks ago, but wanted to make sure with licensing that I wasnt violating anything before making it official. Licensing told me that it is fully my choice whether to administer meds or not, but that such items as an inhaler had to be excluded. I agreed with this and wrote up my notice of policy change and distributed it to all my families.
I own a small daycare center, and currently have 27 families. Only one family protested the policy. It was my PITA family that should have the dcb in a bubble. They fuss over the most mundane things, always have a complaint, petty bs everyday. I have actually encouraged them multiple times to take their child elsewhere, to which they reply, Oh no, you guys do a great job with him. Really? Then why complain about stupid things constantly?
Anyway, this dcm tells me this morning that she knows that it's not in the state regs that we can't administer meds, and she wants her son to have a teaspoon of Tylenol every four hours for his reflux. Wha??? Reflux does not require Tylenol!! And that is way too much for a 5 mo old!!!
My reply was that I never claimed it was a state reg, but it is my policy and I will not budge. She threatened to pull him from care, and I replied "that's fine I'll have all his belongings ready at pickup." then she started back pedaling and saying that she didn't really want to pull him, I cut her off and said that I thought it was a great idea and the best solution for the both of us. Boy was she mad!!!

[SilverSabre25]

Interesting that I read this post today.... I had a DCM pull her 5 mo. old dcb this afternoon from my daycare because I refused to give him tylenol. I made the choice to stop administering OTC medicines and will only give prescription meds if the label indicates a specific time for the dosage and if the child is in attendance at the specified time. Also, I reserve the right to refuse even those meds if the medicine is for a contagious illness.
I made the decision to do this several weeks ago, but wanted to make sure with licensing that I wasnt violating anything before making it official. Licensing told me that it is fully my choice whether to administer meds or not, but that such items as an inhaler had to be excluded. I agreed with this and wrote up my notice of policy change and distributed it to all my families.
I own a small daycare center, and currently have 27 families. Only one family protested the policy. It was my PITA family that should have the dcb in a bubble. They fuss over the most mundane things, always have a complaint, petty bs everyday. I have actually encouraged them multiple times to take their child elsewhere, to which they reply, Oh no, you guys do a great job with him. Really? Then why complain about stupid things constantly?
Anyway, this dcm tells me this morning that she knows that it's not in the state regs that we can't administer meds, and she wants her son to have a teaspoon of Tylenol every four hours for his reflux. Wha??? Reflux does not require Tylenol!! And that is way too much for a 5 mo old!!!
My reply was that I never claimed it was a state reg, but it is my policy and I will not budge. She threatened to pull him from care, and I replied "that's fine I'll have all his belongings ready at pickup." then she started back pedaling and saying that she didn't really want to pull him, I cut her off and said that I thought it was a great idea and the best solution for the both of us. Boy was she mad!!!

that is WAY too much for a 5 mo! It's not even technically recommended for a baby that young although the dosage is easy to extrapolate and available on Dr. Sears' website. But you're right, reflux and tylenol have nothing to do with each other, how strange. I would have said, "Yeah I need to see a prescription for that..."

[Kaddidle Care]

People are under the impression that because it's OTC and not prescription that it won't do any harm.

This is scary - please see my above post about the danger of overdosing on Tylenol.

[My Daycare]

If there was a reg/policy for everything we can't/won't do it would be an endless book. Dad can't make you do something that you won't do whether it is in your or your states handbook or not. As long as it doesn't state that you have to, which I'm sure it doesn't.

[3kidzmama]

People are under the impression that because it's OTC and not prescription that it won't do any harm.

This is scary - please see my above post about the danger of overdosing on Tylenol.

I actually copied the link you posted and texted it to the dcm (former dcm now). She hasn't responded.

[laundrymom]

I just found their contract from 2007. Yeah, the policy is there too. No med other than asthma or heart meds.