Some Food For Thought

[dEHmom]

You know what scares me? What if there are providers or parents who NEED to be told not to lay a card table over the pack n play while the baby is sleeping inside it. Or that didn't know that you should have all nap mats "free of vomit, blood and urine before laying a child down on it".

It's like those warning lables. "Do not place crib near open flame". What kind of people need to be told that????

Not justifying this but...

I think a lot of parents camp and have bonfires, and place the playpens there. Not realizing that a spark could melt it up pretty quickly? and how far those sparks actually can go.

I had a stroller sitting against the camper, probably a good 15 feet or more from the bonfire, it wasn't going anymore, just embers in the bottom, and when we woke up in am, there was a hole burnt in the canopy. I was angry! But glad my kid wasn't in it.



But I agree, it's like the warnings for hairdryers in the bathtubs. WTF!

[R&R]

Yet when you think about it, we are usually with these kids more than the parents are, so if they don't agree with your own parenting techniques, policies, rules, discipline, attitude then they just are not a good fit for your program.
.

So true! The family needs to match your program or it will never work out. I liken it to finding the 'perfect man'. Everyone's definition is different!
So glad you see how important your roll is in the lives of these children!

[nannyde]

Yet when you think about it, we are usually with these kids more than the parents are, so if they don't agree with your own parenting techniques, policies, rules, discipline, attitude then they just are not a good fit for your program.

My parents are with their children more awake hours per week than I am. Also when they are in their parents care most of them are only children with two parents.

I can't compare the time they have here in a group of kids (four children to one adult) to the one adult to one child or two adults for one child parental care they have at home.

The notion that we have the kids more thus we should do XYZ comes up a lot in child care training. It's the gateway mindset to get providers to accept that they must do more than good care, supervision, healthy food, exercise, and lovins.

It is important either way to have a good fit but it does beg the idea that we have more overall responsibility to the outcome of the kids because we have more time. I offer steep discounts for kids that are picked up early in the day because I want to attract clients who have MORE face time with their children. It's worked out really well. I'm just a babysitter... they are the parents... the more they have with them the better our relationship will be. I know that for sure.

[Christian Mother]

"The night before we were to start, after nearly three weeks, it came out that she wanted to potty boot camp without pants or pull ups from day one (in front of new friends!), and that children who couldn't behave (who cried for any reason) were locked in the bathroom until they were quiet and could 'rejoin the group'. "


I wouldn't call it potty training boot camp but I def. do the "no pull ups", "no pants" form of potty training. And it works all the time. I don't see this as being something bad in anyway. Not even around other 2 yr olds. I guess bc I have all boys it hasn't been a problem. Bc there isn't any inappropriate behavior. The parents are in agreement with my method and if they weren't then it would be difficult to get through the process. I've learned that pull ups are just like diapers...if there on...they will pee and poop in them.

[Meeko]

I let my own sons go commando while potty training as I didn't work then. But I don't think I could let my day care kids run around that way!

To much interest in "down there" ::::::

[Unregistered]

Well, Im not sure I would ask a parent for there house/car keys but its a valid point.
Debbie