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I currently wash all the bedding the dcks have because I provide it, but I was wondering do you'll wash your dcks clothes if they have an accident during the day?
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Nope. If they have an accident or spill requiring a change of clothing, their wet/soiled ones go into a plastic bag and placed in their basket for the parent to take home that same day.
The child is then required to return with a fresh set of clothing to replace the set that was in their baskets.
I am a child care provider NOT a laundrymat.
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depends...if I have a load to do anyway, I throw it in...but only wet stuff. No BM clothes. Othewise, I put it in a plastic bag, tie it shut, and send it home.Comment
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Not in a MILLION years. The clothes go home in a plastic bag. I also don't scrape undies with poop in them. If it is really bad, I throw the undies away.Comment
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this.Nope. If they have an accident or spill requiring a change of clothing, their wet/soiled ones go into a plastic bag and placed in their basket for the parent to take home that same day.
The child is then required to return with a fresh set of clothing to replace the set that was in their baskets.
I am a child care provider NOT a laundrymat.
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Me either!! Sometimes I feel bad sending the poop ones home because I don't scrape either, but what I will do is start throwing them away!
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I don't scrape or wash either. I used to, but I had one mom frustrated that her child got changed into Pull-Ups from underwear part way through my day. She was worried about potty training confusion.
She stopped complaining after I sent home the poopy-roos.
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I don't wash the clothes either. If they get soiled I have plastic bags from Costco that I throw the clothes in and they go home. If it's a bm I have thrown the poop in the toilet and put the clothes in the bag. The parents can decide what to do with it at home, not me.Comment
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I wash the babies clothing for a pee diaper leak or messy lunch if I am doing a load of laundry anyway. The older kids, no. I send it home.Comment
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If I am doing a load anyways, I will sometimes throw the wet ones in too. If the parents forget wet clothes here over the weekend, I will often wash them so they don't stink the house up. All dirty pants go home with the parents. If I am too busy or not doing laundry that day, then I send them home in a plastic bag.
I used to always wash the clothes but I had a woman pull a child one time because of it. She thought I was washing her kid's clothes to hide the fact that we were smoking cigarettes around him. I assure you that my husband and I were NOT smoking around any children in our care, including our own 3 kids. I was washing the clothes to be nice and have him all cleaned up for when mom came to get him, as he was a messy toddler and went through about 2 or 3 sets of clothes a day. So much for my being nice!
I also had a parent that never told me her child was allergic to certain types of laundry soap. Luckily he never broke out because I washed his clothes several times before she ever mentioned it.
Just food for thought. Good luck with whatever you decide!Comment
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This. One of the things we were told during ur licensing training was to not do dc kids laundry. I don't think it's a reg, but discouraged.Nope. If they have an accident or spill requiring a change of clothing, their wet/soiled ones go into a plastic bag and placed in their basket for the parent to take home that same day.
The child is then required to return with a fresh set of clothing to replace the set that was in their baskets.
I am a child care provider NOT a laundrymat.Comment
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When I first started, absolutely not! But ............ now I've been doing this awhile and I've had all of the same families for a couple of years, I will wash it
. I have one boy who explodes out of his diaper every BM so I just wash it (by itself on the smallest setting and with a lot of bleach). Plus, I do laundry every day (I think if I did laundry one day per week I would be less inclined to wash one item).
However, it is in my contract that I will bag soiled clothes to send home. I have done it on a couple of occasions when the clothing was really badly soiled or I didn't have time to wash it immediately. In that case, I put it in a grocery plastic bag and set it outside near the front door, then send an fyi text to the parents and remind them at pick-up. There is no way I keep poopy clothes sitting inside my house, bagged or not (including my own children's....they get washed immediately). I don't even keep poopy diapers in my house longer than 15-20 minutes (they also get grocery store bagged and tossed in the outside trash bin). I have a phobia of poop smell in my house :: (plus I have this irrational idea in my head that bugs will come immediately if there is even a faint smell).
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I do the same, except I place it in their cubby instead of basket.Nope. If they have an accident or spill requiring a change of clothing, their wet/soiled ones go into a plastic bag and placed in their basket for the parent to take home that same day.
The child is then required to return with a fresh set of clothing to replace the set that was in their baskets.
I am a child care provider NOT a laundrymat.
I then send home a note in their daily report to please bring back another change of clothing (or 2)!Comment
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Before i opened i had my handbook already saying i do not scrape or rinse soiled clothing. I have had new parents laugh at that but they say they understand when i explain all sinks here are used for kids to get water or to do dishes and its just not sanitary. As far as washing...if we are dirty from activities i will change the child into spare clothes and give parents choice. If they want i will wash and put clothes in childs cubby...or they can take home and wash and return with a pair of clothes they would rather leave. If a child pees or poos and it gets on their clothing...i shove it in a ziploc and leave for parents. Now today...a child somwhow exploded upwards while sitting for snack...we are talking clothes...high chair straps and covers....they were all casualties. Ill clean it if it belongs to daycare. But the clothes got sent home. :-) i did forget to mention that im able to be more pushy with parents on the soiled clothing issue as we have mo washer and dryer on the premesis. There have been times i thought boy it would be nice to clean this now instead of put it in our laundry pile and take home in my car and wash after work and bring back tomorrow...however...nobody ever argues with it knowing there is no washer and dryer here. So its one less thing i have to grow a backbone overComment
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Depends. Not for accidents,I want parents to see that i'm not making it up when I say they had an accident. Lol.
But the other day a dcg fell and got mud all over her grey pants and I did feel bad about that so I washed them.Comment
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