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Let’s Keep Our Daycare Healthy!!
We have had a long string of illnesses passing in and out of the daycare and back and forth from child to child in the past few months. Parents have been getting sick and I have ended up sick myself, as well, quite a few times. It has been a terrible winter with the weather all over the map and illnesses are taking a huge spike this year. It is very hard for me to stop all illnesses from coming in and out of my home but I do try the best I can. I need the support of you, as parents, to help prevent illnesses from entering the daycare so we can stop this viscous cycle.
If you refer back to your contract under the category of illnesses you will find the following:
- I will provide childcare to children who are suffering from a minor
cold. This includes a bit of a runny nose and a minor cough. Any
other illness will not be permitted within our childcare home.
Including but not limited to:
o Extreme congestion; where a child is having a hard time
eating and/or sleeping due to a stuffed up nose. Any kind
of yellow or green mucus coming out of the child’s nose as
this is a clear sign of an infection.
o Chronic coughing; where the child is coughing constantly
or very frequently. When coughing causes the child
to gag.
o Any FEVER whatsoever.
o Vomiting and/or nausea.
o Diarrhea (other than food related diarrhea)
o Fatigue; changes in the child’s energy levels.
o Eye infections and/or throat infections.
- Please keep in mind that this is not a full list and that I may refuse
to provide childcare for a child even if the symptoms are different
from the ones on this list.
- Please do not send your child to daycare until they are free of
symptoms for 24 hours.
This means if your child has a fever and it
breaks at 9pm on Sunday night, the child CAN
NOT attend daycare on Monday. Tuesday
morning he/she will be accepted back into care.
This means if your child is up all night throwing
up and he/she has their last bout of throwing up
at 3am Sunday night and seems to be free of
symptoms when you wake them up in the
morning your child still CAN NOT attend daycare
on Monday. Tuesday morning he/she will be
accepted back into care.
o Please note that I aware of when a parent tries to mask a
child’s fever with Tylenol in the morning to get them into
daycare. These are the children who out of nowhere end
up with a spiked fever two to four hours of being in my
care. This is completely unacceptable and can result in
termination as it is a deliberate violation of my policies!
Please be sure to follow my childcare policies!
I know it can be tough at times having to take a sick day from work to stay home with your child when they are sick, however, when a sick child is brought into my home several other children end up catching this illness and several other parent’s end up having to take sick days off work. I too sometimes end up catching these illnesses and in which case I have to close down the whole daycare which in term causes an inconvenience for everyone involved.
If your child suffers from a medical illness such as asthma or seasonal allergies please be sure to fill in the details of this in your CHILD INFORMATION FORM. Any medical illness that causes severe coughing or congestion should be reported in your child information form and will help me to better determine when a child is contagious or not. Bringing in a doctor’s note will also benefit the determination of whether a child should be in care or not due to the symptoms they are showing. Let’s all work together to make this daycare experience a healthy one!!
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Please sign and return this portion of the reminder of ******** Daycare Illness Policy.
I have read and understand all areas in the reminder that ******** provided me with in reference of her Illness Policy. I agree by signing this form to follow these policies and all areas covered within the policy for the duration of my child’s stay at ******** Daycare.
Parent’s Signature__________________________________________
Date_____________________________________________________
I agree that most parents do not read the PHB that is given to them. Guess I am just frustrated because of that so I just decided to get really tough about standing my ground. I sent a 1 yr old home this morning because of an enormous amount of green snot and the gross factor (he mouths EVERYTHING) and he was digging uncontrollably in one ear and is crabby as all get out and the parents left looking completely confused as to why I called them! Grrrrr!
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