Movie Mahem

[morgan24]

I think you handled the situation very nicely. I would of been honest about it too.

[Blackcat31]

I think you handled it correctly. I would have been mortified if I were the parent and just as mortified if I were the provider. I do think you did the right thing though.

FWIW~ I own many Disney movies that have Fast Play installed on them. You just insert the DVD and walk away and it plays on its own. No screens to go through to get to the movie.

I don't use any of these movies in child care anymore as we are a no TV/movie child cares. After reading about this experience I am even more grateful we ditched the TV.

[grandmom]

I'm not going to even attempt to tell you what to do.

I'll just say, this would be cause for a CPS visit to my house to shut me down. Tread lightly, both in what you put in writing, and what you say to parents.

I'm so sad. My heart would be racing for a week over this.

[Unregistered]

Well thank the lord that every parent was completely understanding, upset but a lot of them simply laughed it off - one DCD even asked to borrow the DVD I explained it was already returned to the parent who brought it in.
A lot of the patents wanted to know who brought it, didn't even care what the kids saw.

I hope this is the last of it... But should I get the parents to sign something to say they were told about the situation and there is no onus on the daycare?

I am so relieved I was upfront and all the parents are so easy going.

[Childminder]

I would not. Just document it on the calendar and have your assistant witness it?

[countrymom]

hmm, if your assistant put it in and saw it pop it, it would have only been a few seconds, literally nothing would have been seen. I have a feeling that your assistant walked away. I stand infront of my dvd player and press play manually so I would have seen it quickly and been able to shut it down within seconds. It was an accident, I wouldn't have had anyone sign anything because if it happened in seconds there was nothing to see. My parents are relaxed, I know I would have had a few who would have asked to borrow it.

[Kaddidle Care]

Well thank the lord that every parent was completely understanding, upset but a lot of them simply laughed it off - one DCD even asked to borrow the DVD I explained it was already returned to the parent who brought it in.
A lot of the parents wanted to know who brought it, didn't even care what the kids saw.

I hope this is the last of it... But should I get the parents to sign something to say they were told about the situation and there is no onus on the daycare?

I am so relieved I was upfront and all the parents are so easy going.

I'm so glad because to be honest, I laughed when I read it. At 2 anything they saw would be way over their heads and I'm sure it was shut down quickly.

My brother had something similar happen when a friend taped something on a VHS tape and forgot to completely rewind it before taping. But it was seen by adults and they never let the guy live it down. ::

[Meyou]

I have lots of burned movies that play directly from the time you pop them in. They're ripped on the computer with no menu or previews.

[MarinaVanessa]

I have lots of burned movies that play directly from the time you pop them in. They're ripped on the computer with no menu or previews.

Ditto here. You can't believe the number of DVD's that have been scratched or ruined either by own kids or DC kids so we started to archive them as soon as we bought them. We made copies of the movies without the menus so that as soon as we popped them in they would play on their own. When these copies got ruined we just made a new copy and our DVD's stayed brand new.

We've since then upgraded to the Apple TV which plays the digital copies (they come with your movies now most of the time) directly from your iTunes library but even this way there are no menu's. I'm sure that either the parent (or someone in the household) made a copy of the DVD or maybe even bought a bootleg version of it. I'm glad that things worked out well for you.