Covering Bite Mark

[Unregistered]

I am currently working for a daycare that has been in business for MANY years. I just started a few weeks ago. Yesterday a 2 year old but another child on the arm. As soon as it happened the lead teacher looked at it and shrugged it off. A few minutes later she produced a sheet of temporary Halloween tattoos to put on kids. Guess where the bitten child's went--you guessed it--right on top of the bite mark, covering it up (it was on the hand). What should I do? This teacher has been at the daycare for 25 years !

[Blackcat31]

I am currently working for a daycare that has been in business for MANY years. I just started a few weeks ago. Yesterday a 2 year old but another child on the arm. As soon as it happened the lead teacher looked at it and shrugged it off. A few minutes later she produced a sheet of temporary Halloween tattoos to put on kids. Guess where the bitten child's went--you guessed it--right on top of the bite mark, covering it up (it was on the hand). What should I do? This teacher has been at the daycare for 25 years !

Report to your director.

NO child's injury NO MATTER how serious, should ever be brushed off like that!

I'd report to your director and let her/him handle it.

[JackandJill]

I would speak with your director. That's awful!

[Cat Herder]

Was the biter an employees child? Just curious..

Sadly, this is common. Definitely speak with the director.

[MunchkinWrangler]

I would have totally said something to that teacher. I would have definitely challenged her actions right then and there. Then immediately reported it.

Terribly irresponsible and not someone that should be working with children.

Not cool.

[Cat Herder]

I would have totally said something to that teacher.

From experience: she will say it was part of the "TLC" on the boo-boo report. Similar to a kiss and a band-aid.

If she happened to forget to mention it to the afternoon teacher, it was an oversight.

I have heard this excuse a time or two before, back in the day.

[MunchkinWrangler]

From experience: she will say it was part of the "TLC" on the boo-boo report. Similar to a kiss and a band-aid.

If she happened to forget to mention it to the afternoon teacher, it was an oversight.

I have heard this excuse a time or two before, back in the day.

Oh, I'm sure!

I would have found it hard not to say something!

[Play Care]

From experience: she will say it was part of the "TLC" on the boo-boo report. Similar to a kiss and a band-aid.

If she happened to forget to mention it to the afternoon teacher, it was an oversight.

I have heard this excuse a time or two before, back in the day.

Why am I surprised?

[Unregistered]

The biter is a sort-of favorite child around here. Very precocious and seen as a sort of golden child. Her mom and our director are very close friends

[daycarediva]

Oh my goodness!

[DaveA]

From experience: she will say it was part of the "TLC" on the boo-boo report. Similar to a kiss and a band-aid.

If she happened to forget to mention it to the afternoon teacher, it was an oversight.

I have heard this excuse a time or two before, back in the day.

This was what I was thinking also. Still would talk to director about it.

[daycare]

How old is the child that got bitten. What is that teacher going to say if that child is able to talk ?

[Unregistered]

Both children are 2

[Pestle]

Ethics aside, does anybody else think it's idiotic to put ink onto a child's damaged skin?

[laundrymom]

I'm shocked. I've done this since 1987 and never, ever, ever heard of this. How sad. I would most definitely talk to the director and possibly licensing as well. Not for the bite, but for the caregivers actions. How incredibly deceptive.