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E-mail to this site from Julie S.,
"Former daycare worker, now a mommy",
4-Feb-11 |
My (laziest) parenting...is still a
million times better than the times I worked in daycare. They just don't
compare
Category = Caregiver |
E-mail to this site from Disgruntled
Daycare Worker, "Working at a large evangelical faith-based day care",
19-Feb-11 |
I have been employed at an evangelical
(Christian) faith-based day care in the Deep South (of the United States).
It is a very large day
care...
The kids have been running around and getting into everything...
They have been pumping
out all the handsoap and hand sanitizer foam from the wall-mounted
dispensers. The more aggressive children have been scratching and biting
each other. The boys have been fighting over the toy train, the dump truck,
and the little fire engine. There's only one of each (no duplicates) so
bitter fights have been happening along with tug-of-wars. (The director told
me that she doesn't like to buy duplicate toys since these two-year-old kids
need to learn how to share and take turns.)
I have put in my resignation notice and I can't wait to get away from this
horrible place! It's a juvenile detention facility for two-and-a-half year
old children!...
Category = Caregiver |
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E-mail to this site from an anonymous
day care worker in Alabama. "Positive Discipline", 14-Mar-11 |
A lot of day care workers think that
("positive discipline" means) it's ok to threaten a child with being hit,
(as long as they don't) actually go through with the threat.
What day care workers really like to do, is they will scare a kid to death
and the poor child will be sitting in his chair in tears. He'll be wailing
and all the kids will be looking at him and everyone starts to get upset.
Then the day care worker who caused all the turmoil will say, "Dry it up!!!!
We don't want no cry babies in here. I say dry it up, NOW!!!! If you don't
stop crying RIGHT NOW, I'm gonna REALLY give you something to cry about!"
Then they'll make a fist and will wave it around like they're going to
sucker punch them.
It's really sad that so many child care directors hire these unskilled,
uneducated, autocratic, control-freak, just plain MEAN women to work in
their centers...
Category = Caregiver |
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E-mail to this site from Ashley R.,
"Your site is so true!!!!", 18-Mar-11 |
I read a lot of the things people have
said (on your website) and am glad I'm not alone.
I have recently worked in a daycare center for five years, and the entire
time I was miserable.
I was constantly sick with colds and stomach bugs...
The director hired anyone who would work for minimum wage, claiming to
parents she only hired qualified girls while she charged them an arm and a
leg for tuition.
We rarely got bathroom breaks due to the fact that you had to stay in ratio,
and you needed someone to stand in for you.
I would always think to myself, "I can't wait to go home", and then I
thought, "If I feel this way how do these poor kids feel?"
I was so stressed I would cry on my way home.
I would never put my child in daycare after seeing first hand what goes on.
Category = Caregiver |
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E-mail to this site from Nancy Q., "Web
site and topic", 24-Mar-11 |
I have been thrown up on and had to stay
in the same clothing as there are not enough extra staff so I could go home
to change.
I have gotten every sickness known to man and used my own sick days and
vacation time due to a child's illness.
I could go on and on...
Category = Caregiver, Disease |
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E-mail to this site from JG, "From a
daycare teacher", 29-Mar-11 |
I have worked in childcare for almost 4
years.
After several years working in two different centers, I no longer feel any
passion for the job. It's not the children.
It's daycare every day life that sucks the fun and enjoyment out of early
childhood. I loathe daycare centers.
Certain kids will always be favored over others, teachers are not what they
seem, and some pretty horrible stuff goes down even at the "nice" daycares.
My job has caused me so much stress and I am miserable every day.
Category = Caregiver |
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E-mail to this site from Sherri S. "Daycare
Worker", 20-Apr-11 |
...it's
impossible to ensure complete safety for each child...impossible to prevent
spread of germs and disease...
I have witnessed one child eating another child's spit-up...on my watch
because I couldn't get there fast enough to stop it. What can you do when
you have one child on the diaper station and there are 2 toddlers standing
on a table or chair about to fall???
It's impossible...they are constantly crying, craving attention...it's
heartbreaking.
I would NEVER...repeat...NEVER put my child in one...just the thought of it
makes my stomach turn. It borders on abuse. I hate my job and am searching
diligently for other work...and I feel so guilty leaving the kids in my room
to deal with the day-to-day long hours of their lives in that monstrous
place.
Category = Caregiver, Danger, Disease |
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Last Updated
May 17, 2011
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