PSA: Be Careful What You Say...Even Here

[Cat Herder]

I ABSOLUTELY agree with you Jen that many of the providers here work alone, often for 12 hours/day. We NEED someone to vent to, share frustrations with and bounce ideas off of. I have worked in centers and of course the teachers would vent to eachother, it helped us to feel better and we were able to move on.

I know that we need a safe place to vent frustrations. But, in venting our frustrations if we are admitting to things that could be considered neglectful of children, then don't we all have an obligation to say something? If one of our parents was neglecting their child, would we not say something?

Honestly, I don't know if what the unregistered person did was right or wrong. I don't know the right way to handle something like that. I'm not standing up for how they handled it. And really, I don't care about that person. I only care about the poster of those concerning comments and her children. I just hope (as we all should) that things are okay with her and with her children. Really, that's all.

And, no, I wasn't the unregistered user.

I fully agree with this.

[Cat Herder]

I feel very bad for the OP and anyone else who is feeling threatened by the actions of one. I think we all can agree our job is a hard one, and we most likely don't respond in the 100% best way all of the time. If we did, I seriously doubt that this board, and those like it, would need to even exist. We all come here for support, for laughs, to vent (because we can't vent to the kids/parents and often times spouses), conversation, and, at least in my case, friendship and comradery.

As a member who appreciates this board and all the members of it, I ask you to stop analyzing of each post and let it be. I think that absolutely nothing can come from continuing to bash a member, or making anyone feel worse. The posts were reported and are being investigated. That should be enough for you who are condemning.

I hope that we can all look past what has happened and get back to the reasons we started to come her in the first place. I seriously think that dragging out the whole thing any further is not the right thing to do.

Sorry, had not made it this far.... Shutting up and going to my corner.

[cillybean83]

*taps catherder* um...that's MY corner...YOUR corner is over there ~~~>

tee hee

[kendallina]

Catherder and Cillybean, you can both come to my corner where we can all vent about our own kids!

[cillybean83]

we could all work the same corner!

wait....

no. that's not right.

[DCMomOf3]

Sorry, had not made it this far.... Shutting up and going to my corner.

tsk tsk. you can have any corner you want ... exept for my DCGs nesting corner::::::

[Sunny Day]

This is really too bad. I'm not sure exactly what the posts were about, but its really unfortunate that we all have to be so worried about what we've posted on here. Daycare can be an extremely trying and frustrating job--long hours, extremely hard work, low pay, lack of any sort of support, etc. People who have never done it have absolutely NO idea! I believe that often daycare providers come on here and vent their frustrations and seek advice in difficult situations as a way to bring themselves back down so they are able to properly and happily deal with the children in their care. I know I try to never, ever let onto the children in my care that I am frustrated, but the bottom line is that I am HUMAN too and I need to express how I feel every now and then or ask for help. Its sad that I now feel that I can't even come on here and say I'm frustrated because it could be misconstrued. What a world we live in.

[Cat Herder]

Deal!!! I will bring the cookies.

[jen]

we could all work the same corner!

wait....

no. that's not right.

hahhaaaaah!!!!!

[kendallina]

Lol....