After Reading This Article, if I Ever Have a No Call / No Show..

[Breezy]

I will always call them to double check that everything is okay.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...701549_pf.html (WARNING: Child death mentioned; reader beware!--Mod)

[JenNJ]

That article was very powerful. Thanks for sharing.

I always call 30 minutes after an expected arrival for this reason alone.

[SilverSabre25]

This made me cry several times reading it and I had to take a break in the middle.

I will always call 30 minutes after an expected drop-off.

[Michael]

Awful and tragic. A company needs to create a device in the car for parents that can monitor heat, oxegen and carbon dioxide. It should set off the car alarm if it reaches a critical level.

[daycare]

OMG that is so sad. It was too long for me to read all the way down, but I am on board with the rest of you...

Good thing I am so annul and I always call parents just after being 15 min late... See me being a pain in the you know what would have paid off for this family...

I feel so bad for that father...................I would want to die too

[Heidi]

This is what I meant the other day when someone asked our policy. I think I will save this article and email to the next parent who shows up an hour late without a phone call!

no...maybe I wont. But, I'll want to...just can't be that mean...

[Zoe]

I had a dcd drive all the way to work, then see his son in the backseat and had to drive back. Thank God he did! How scary! He was a little bit flustered. I do always call or text if parents are late and am a bit of a pest about it until I get an answer.

Thanks for sharing!

[Mary Poppins]

This made me cry several times reading it and I had to take a break in the middle.

I will always call 30 minutes after an expected drop-off.

Me too!! I bawled at the part about the girl pulling her hair out. I am tearing up just thinking about her. Ugh!!!!

[PitterPatter]

I will always call them to double check that everything is okay.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...701549_pf.html (WARNING: Child death mentioned; reader beware!--Mod)

OMG I can't even read it all, just the few stories..

I just wanted to say thank you for sharing it. I didn't want to read it because I hate getting that deep sorrow state of mind but what grabbed me was the No call no show. I had a couple parents do this a lot in the past. I finally stopped calling and started charging fees. I will call from now on because it could be the difference in a childs life. Thank you Breezy!!

[Breezy]

I will always call them to double check that everything is okay.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...701549_pf.html (WARNING: Child death mentioned; reader beware!--Mod)

Thank you for adding the warning, Silver. I thought about it right after posting but my tablet hates editing.

[MyAngels]

This article makes me want to go out and buy one of these for my new granddaughter:

http://www.babyalert.info/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&zenid=86fntuosmd1tsomng9teuuik76

[Breezy]

I think that should be a must have for all parents

[Heidi]

This article makes me want to go out and buy one of these for my new granddaughter:

http://www.babyalert.info/index.php?...somng9teuuik76

In WI, dcps' are required to have an alarm system installed in our vehicle if there is a 3rd row seat (actually, and vehicle over 6 passenger, so that translates to 3rd row). I wonder if this sytem (it's available as multi) could be used?

The systems most people have a really impractical, IMO. You have to open the back hatch and push a button to deactivate it once all the children are out, which means you are NOT watching the kids while you're messing with the hatch & button. If you don't all the car alarms and lights go on...:confused: Freaking out the kids, while most adults walk by rolling their eyes.

Oddly enough, the school bus drivers only need to check the bus after it is unloaded and put a placard (red sign) in the back window that says "this bus has been checked for sleeping children". But, then, at the moment (I think it's changing), we throw 60 kids in a tin-can without seat belts and call that safe, while a personal vehicle must have seat belts, car seats, booster seats until age 8...yeah...

[Crazy8]

I do always call. Years ago I read on some daycare forums they were trying to institute the "kate boe" policy - in where you would ALWAYS call a parent if they did not arrive when scheduled. I remember printing it up and giving it to all my parents. Kate Boe was a baby girl who died in the back of her mom's minivan when she forgot to drop her off at daycare back in 2005 or 2006 I think. Had her daycare called to ask where Kate was she could possibly be alive today!

Such a sad tragedy!!

[MissK]

Wow...thats really all I can say after reading that. I could never imagine how these parents feel. I will definitely be making it a priority to call parents if they do not drop off at scheduled time. So sad...