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But when I tell you andyour husband that she pulls the clips out of her hair and tries to swallow them and your husband says, "Yeah she does that sometimes...." WHY would you bring her back again with clips in her hair!??!?!??!
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I've had this too....crazy!
I now have a part in my contract that states girls are not to come to day care with numerous flowers/barettes/clips etc in their hair. Even if THEY don't try and swallow them, they can fall out onto the floor where a crawling baby can find it. Waaaay too much liability for me. -
I will add that in to mine!
I mean sure I supervise that's a given but I do have other kids in care and I cant watch them all 100% of the time! Yesterday it would have taken her a few seconds to swallow it and choke!Comment
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I have a DCM that does this too....despite my repeated reminders....now when she arrives, I do a quick head check, remove the barrettes and hand them to mom. Of course, I hand them over with a stern look but apparently it doesn't sink in because she continues to do it.
Luckily, I have a separate entryway so there is no possibility of the child coming in without me giving her the once over so I KNOW the barrettes aren't slipping by me.
I even tried just keeping them all thinking DCM would get tired of buying more and more but that doesn't work either. Now I just take them out, hand them over and say goodbye. Works for me.
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I had a client a few years back that insisted on putting a big flowery clip in her daughters hair. I would just put them in her cubby. Funny the mom never caught on to that. She got mad one day when a little clip got lost. (I think the vacum got it). But the next day back again with another clip. Since then I have advised parents of that as well. Its just to much!
At interview I really I really empasize the kids wearing play clothes to. I dont want to be responcible for ruining that new outfit from grandma. I try to lump in the whole clothing thing together.
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Oh, that's really crazy!Comment
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What a mess.
No babies here, but bows and clips go in the cubby the FIRST time they are taken out. Some children get them put away within 2 minutes of arriving. I refuse to pay for a $10.00 bow that gets lost outside.Comment
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This is my handbook part about hair accessories...
HAIR ACCESSORIES
Girls may wear a headband to day care if you wish. However, please do not send your daughter with numerous slides/clips/barrettes/bows etc. While they look adorable, they can be a deadly choking hazard to a baby if they fall/get pulled out during the day and land on the floor where a baby may be crawling. They may also get vacuumed up during the day. The day care will not be not responsible for lost hair items.
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what do you do about the African american kids that come with dozens of beads, barrets, and elastics? They say it's part of their culture and I feel like I am walking a fine line to disallow it.
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I had a dad recently tell me that his 15 mo knows how to take her earrings out
! He said they found them lying in her crib when she woke up that morning ! He then asked me to put them back in if she pulled them out. I said, "No, I'll take them out and leave them in her cubby for her." He looked surprised :confused:.
Not only could she have swallowed them and suffered serious internal injuries, but one of the other kids could have too -- I've got FIVE kids that put things in their mouths.
Oi!
With hair clips, I take them out and use the tiny clear plastic bands to hold hair back. If they were swallowed, they wouldn't cause any problems. Other clips go straight back in the cubbies too. Thankfully I've only had one parent that I've had to tell point-blank that they can't send clips anymore. The rest seem to have gotten it after me re-doing their child's hair a few times.Comment
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This kid barely has enough hair to clip as it is!!Comment
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well at least she comes with her hair done, I have one who tells me that her 3 yr old refuses to get her hair comb and only wants me to do it. Ya right!!Comment
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I also have a policy against ANY small items and barrettes, hair accesories and jewlery are all listed under that policy but parent still try to send their kids with small items.
I used to do what Blackcat does with her DC mom however like she said, they just don't get it. So now I just smile and wait until DCP leaves and then I remove all of the hair clips/small items and I put them away. At the end of the day when they ask where such item is I give them this look ---> :confused:. And that's that. I occasionally throw in a "Oh who knows. Weve been all over the place today".
Some of these barrettes and hair accesories are pricey, sometimes as much as $4 for 3 pairs of barretes (ive seen the same ones that my DCG wears at Target for that price). They arrive wearing them, I remove them and then put them away in a ziplock baggy that I put away in my junk drawer. I don't put them in the cubby (too afraid that my other littles will get to them), and I don't hand them back. They eventually get tired of having to buy new ones and then they start coming in the little cheap (but sturdy) little rubber bands which don't fall out.
I occasionally get the one parent (dcm usually) that gets angry or upset at all of the lost hair accessories and I just laugh it off and give them a perky "Yeah it'll happene every time she comes in them, but keep sending her with them if you like" and then a great big
. If they want to keep sending them with them, i'll just keep removing them ... and they NEVER get them back.
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Yes, an AA child does need to have her hair done. It's just way too hard to "do" the child's hair if it's been just left down. (general statement, not ALWAYS the case)
I just was telling my girls how sad it is that I couldn't do their hair in red/white/blue beads for the 4th of July parade like I used to when they were little:
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My kids had the beads, barrettes and rubber-bands...
It's pretty simple to make the bands at the bottom tight enough so that anything above them or being held by them won't fall out. I used to hurt my fingers when I took out my girls' hair b/c the bottom was so tight. Even the barrettes can be put in the bottom of the braid through the rubber-band so that they won't fall out. If the bands are left in too long they will become weak and break though.
I had one little girl with a hair clip in her mouth I put it in a ziploc for mom and she never came with one againhappyfacehappyfacehappyface I love a parent that "gets it" without me having to force an issue!
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I don't care what culture, religion, race, nationality, etc etc etc a child is from, safety is safety and when I am the person responsible for another person's child, I will do whatever I can to protect that child from injury or harmful situations so I would still NOT allow them.
When the child attend public school or a facility that has more than one set of eyes and one pair of hands then they can wear whatever they want...big or small.Comment
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