VENT: Why Is It So Hard To Follow Policies?!

[wdmmom]

Monday: DCD brings DCB3 into daycare with Powdered donuts and a juice box.

Tuesday: Same DCD brings DCB in with 2 CHOCOLATE donuts and a juice box that DCB squeezed right after dad left getting me full of fruit punch.

DCM brings DCG 3 to daycare with an apple and a granola bar saying she just woke up and didn't have time to eat. It's 830am!!!

Today: Same DCD brings DCB with 2 more CHOCOLATE donuts and a Capri Sun! Today I take it from DCD and toss in the trash. DCB goes down for a nap right away in the morning. I get him up an hour later and he's asking where his chocolate donuts are.

What do I have to do to get parents to stop bringing food in? This was an issue in the past and I told parents because of sharing and food allergies, I can't permit this. Most kids arrive between 715am and 745am and breakfast is usually between 8am and 830am.

I emailed everyone and put a sign on the door. It's been since March or April since I nipped this in the bud and yet again, it's becoming an issue with my longest client!!! WTH!!! Being here the longest, you'd think they would know.

Monday morning a sign is going on the door and an email is going out TODAY! But seriously...what is it going to take to get these parents to follow the rules?! I'm not doing this to be mean...I'm doing this because it's my business and I can. I'm about to ask them if they put 5 kids in a room with 2 donuts if they can figure out what'll happen?!

[daycare]

not to mention what it does to their behavior.....
I would say hey I have no problem with the donuts and sugar boxes if you don't mind if I give them some shatsa soda and a few pixie sticks right before pick up....3

You know I have a similar issue, but it's wtih toys and it too is my longest client. Just this morning I said to the DCK in front of mom you know we don't bring toys from home, You can either give it back to mom right now or I take it and it goes into my hiding closet forever... He gave it back to his mom. I told mom please no more toys from home. She said well it was this or a throw down fight. I told her to end it at home before they even got into the car.

Honestly, I would tell the parents that the child needs to fed a heathy meal and that it has to be eaten before arrival or packaged up so that you can feed it to them at the table....

[CheekyChick]

Here are some suggestions:

1. If you are on the USDA Food Program, tell him that the children are NOT ALLOWED to have Capri Sun and donuts for breakfast.

2. If you don't mind children bringing goodies, tell him that he MUST bring enough to share with all of the children who attend your daycare (and tell him the number).

3. Put a waste basket outside of your front door with a sign that says, "Please deposit all food and drinks in waste basket PRIOR to entering daycare."

[wdmmom]

Here are some suggestions:

1. If you are on the USDA Food Program, tell him that the children are NOT ALLOWED to have Capri Sun and donuts for breakfast.

2. If you don't mind children bringing goodies, tell him that he MUST bring enough to share with all of the children who attend your daycare (and tell him the number).

3. Put a waste basket outside of your front door with a sign that says, "Please deposit all food and drinks in waste basket PRIOR to entering daycare."

I am not on the Food Program yet but I will be in the next couple months so this needs to stop! I told the DCM of this issue but I think she leaves for work before DCD and my guess is the food/drink is a bribe to get DCB in the car.

There's an easy solution to the parent: Get your kid up 15 minutes earlier and let them eat that garbage at home.

OR

Get them up 15 minutes later, change their clothes and put them in the car.

DCM has mentioned before that their diets aren't ideal. She says she eats constantly all day and on junk food but she's a twig. DCB already has behavior issues...for me and his parents. Too bad for being a nurse, the DCM isn't bright enough to realize that his issues may be exacerbated by her!

[Crystal]

It would be very simple for me. I would take the food and drink from the child as they walked in the door, state directly to the parent that, as they know, we do not allow food to brought, hand it to the parent and tell them do not let it happen again.

I have had to do it, and it NEVER happened again.

[CheekyChick]

I am not on the Food Program yet but I will be in the next couple months so this needs to stop! I told the DCM of this issue but I think she leaves for work before DCD and my guess is the food/drink is a bribe to get DCB in the car.

There's an easy solution to the parent: Get your kid up 15 minutes earlier and let them eat that garbage at home.

OR

Get them up 15 minutes later, change their clothes and put them in the car.

DCM has mentioned before that their diets aren't ideal. She says she eats constantly all day and on junk food but she's a twig. DCB already has behavior issues...for me and his parents. Too bad for being a nurse, the DCM isn't bright enough to realize that his issues may be exacerbated by her!

I'm guessing it's a bribe to get in the car to go to daycare. Even if he is happy at your place, many parents feel bad/guilty about sending their children to DC so they feel the need to bribe or reward them. Ugh.

I'm guessing DCB's issues are related to all of the junk they feed him. You would think a nurse who has had to study at least a little about nutrition would know that.

[Meeko]

Here are some suggestions:

1. If you are on the USDA Food Program, tell him that the children are NOT ALLOWED to have Capri Sun and donuts for breakfast.

2. If you don't mind children bringing goodies, tell him that he MUST bring enough to share with all of the children who attend your daycare (and tell him the number).

3. Put a waste basket outside of your front door with a sign that says, "Please deposit all food and drinks in waste basket PRIOR to entering daycare."

Love the waste basket at the entrance idea!

[sharlan]

Dad probably stops at the local gas station for coffee in the morning and buys the kid junk.

I like the idea of a LARGE sign on the door and the trash can at the side. If they want to provide treats for the whole group fine, otherwise, it stays outside.

The only issue I've ever had with that is a mom who gave her monster 3 dum dums every morning. He'd try to walk in the door, but I would stop both of them. He could go sit in the car with them. It took a few days, but mom got tired of sitting in the car for 30 mins while he ate them.

[CheekyChick]

Love the waste basket at the entrance idea!

The waste basket/sign will (hopefully) solve that problem.

[CheekyChick]

Dad probably stops at the local gas station for coffee in the morning and buys the kid junk.

I like the idea of a LARGE sign on the door and the trash can at the side. If they want to provide treats for the whole group fine, otherwise, it stays outside.

The only issue I've ever had with that is a mom who gave her monster 3 dum dums every morning. He'd try to walk in the door, but I would stop both of them. He could go sit in the car with them. It took a few days, but mom got tired of sitting in the car for 30 mins while he ate them.

Who in the WORLD would send their child to DC with three ****ers? LOL!!! I can only imagine what his teeth look like.

[sharlan]

Who in the WORLD would send their child to DC with three ****ers? LOL!!! I can only imagine what his teeth look like.

That kid had so many issues that he actually had subscriptions. Grandmother wanted him kept a baby. She would put him in diapers, give him bottles and pacifiers at 3 1/2.

[Unregistered]

I hope you had the nerve to tell the kid

Where his donuts were. Why let this go on for three days? The first time it happens...deal with it. And tell dad - we don't have lunch until x -so go take a few minutes and have breakfast and come back, ok?

Break it down - who suffers? The kid. How is that fair?

[Crazy8]

I'm not too confrontational but I would have handed the stuff right back to DCD and "remind" him of your policy. If I didn't do it the first day I definitely would have the second day. I've had to do it lately with kids bringing toys in - I hand them right back to mom at the door and tell the child it will be in the car and they can have it back when mom comes to pick them up.

[jen]

It would be very simple for me. I would take the food and drink from the child as they walked in the door, state directly to the parent that, as they know, we do not allow food to brought, hand it to the parent and tell them do not let it happen again.

I have had to do it, and it NEVER happened again.

I've had to do that as well--McDonalds in my case--and it never does happen again.

[littlemissmuffet]

It would be very simple for me. I would take the food and drink from the child as they walked in the door, state directly to the parent that, as they know, we do not allow food to brought, hand it to the parent and tell them do not let it happen again.

I have had to do it, and it NEVER happened again.

This is exactly what I would do. There is NO WAY I would waste time writing emails and putting up signs... tell the parent directly to their face and hand it right back. Simple.