Unsafe Lafayette Spring Break Day Care/Camp

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Lafayette doesn't sponsor any spring break camps (the aftercare provider has a camp at a different location). This is DPR, which as PP said is notoriously horrible.

+1. You get what you pay for.

This is for all cases. The truth of the matter is, no one cares for your children the way you do. A few weeks ago, I was at the Glover Park rec center playground. I witnessed EVERY nanny on their phone. I saw kids alone, eating dirt, playing in dirt, playing near the trash cans, crawling all over the place with no supervision. I was shocked and so was the older woman I was there with. I thought about posting one nanny, in particular, but I decided it wasn't worth my effort.

So are you saying that you NEVER check your phone when your kids are playing at the playground?

I don't think that's what this person is saying. Surely there's a difference between checking your phone occasionally and being so immersed in it that the kids were engaging in the behaviors above. I've never seen a parent let that go for long--they're always scooping up the kid.

To OP, I'm glad you flagged this. This is the kind of thing the supervisor should know about. Sigh. This is like secondhand smoke, but for phones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lafayette doesn't sponsor any spring break camps (the aftercare provider has a camp at a different location). This is DPR, which as PP said is notoriously horrible.

+1. You get what you pay for.

This is for all cases. The truth of the matter is, no one cares for your children the way you do. A few weeks ago, I was at the Glover Park rec center playground. I witnessed EVERY nanny on their phone. I saw kids alone, eating dirt, playing in dirt, playing near the trash cans, crawling all over the place with no supervision. I was shocked and so was the older woman I was there with. I thought about posting one nanny, in particular, but I decided it wasn't worth my effort.

It's true. Everyone thinks THEIR nanny is very attentive and would never do this. But 90+% of nannies do this.

This is one reason some people prefer a well managed daycare to a nanny. They are regulated and risk losing accreditation if they get caught doing something really bad. Nannies are more convenient though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lafayette doesn't sponsor any spring break camps (the aftercare provider has a camp at a different location). This is DPR, which as PP said is notoriously horrible.

+1. You get what you pay for.

This is for all cases. The truth of the matter is, no one cares for your children the way you do. A few weeks ago, I was at the Glover Park rec center playground. I witnessed EVERY nanny on their phone. I saw kids alone, eating dirt, playing in dirt, playing near the trash cans, crawling all over the place with no supervision. I was shocked and so was the older woman I was there with. I thought about posting one nanny, in particular, but I decided it wasn't worth my effort.

It's true. Everyone thinks THEIR nanny is very attentive and would never do this. But 90+% of nannies do this.

This is one reason some people prefer a well managed daycare to a nanny. They are regulated and risk losing accreditation if they get caught doing something really bad. Nannies are more convenient though.

+100.

Like a PP said about DPR camps you get what you pay for. Average UMC working parents in DC seem to be penny wise pound foolish on this, hoping a single nanny saves on one or two kids daycare. Well off people get the nanny and send the kids to preschool so nanny can clean and cook without screaming kids then do pick up and be attentive and loving as possible.

I go to a lot of parks in NWDC and blown away by how inattentive almost all Nannies are. Almost as if it’s payback to employers for something. Or maybe they just need to zone out after dealing with your little hellions. Kids eating dirt, crying alone, pantless no diaper with privates exposed for several minutes while they look at phones or talk to their other countrymen Nannie’s. borderline child abuse. But in their defense it takes immense patience to be a good parent. Some gifted people can do this for another person’s child. But obvious that most of the nanny labor market in DC is not made up of such people even when they’re getting paid to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lafayette doesn't sponsor any spring break camps (the aftercare provider has a camp at a different location). This is DPR, which as PP said is notoriously horrible.

+1. You get what you pay for.

This is for all cases. The truth of the matter is, no one cares for your children the way you do. A few weeks ago, I was at the Glover Park rec center playground. I witnessed EVERY nanny on their phone. I saw kids alone, eating dirt, playing in dirt, playing near the trash cans, crawling all over the place with no supervision. I was shocked and so was the older woman I was there with. I thought about posting one nanny, in particular, but I decided it wasn't worth my effort.

It's true. Everyone thinks THEIR nanny is very attentive and would never do this. But 90+% of nannies do this.

This is one reason some people prefer a well managed daycare to a nanny. They are regulated and risk losing accreditation if they get caught doing something really bad. Nannies are more convenient though.

+100.

Like a PP said about DPR camps you get what you pay for. Average UMC working parents in DC seem to be penny wise pound foolish on this, hoping a single nanny saves on one or two kids daycare. Well off people get the nanny and send the kids to preschool so nanny can clean and cook without screaming kids then do pick up and be attentive and loving as possible.

I go to a lot of parks in NWDC and blown away by how inattentive almost all Nannies are. Almost as if it’s payback to employers for something. Or maybe they just need to zone out after dealing with your little hellions. Kids eating dirt, crying alone, pantless no diaper with privates exposed for several minutes while they look at phones or talk to their other countrymen Nannie’s. borderline child abuse. But in their defense it takes immense patience to be a good parent. Some gifted people can do this for another person’s child. But obvious that most of the nanny labor market in DC is not made up of such people even when they’re getting paid to do so.

What a fantasy! As an UMC mom, I couldn’t get a daycare spot. I didn’t have the luxury of choice on childcare. Also there are some great, professional Nannies out there. Your sweeping generalizations on everything is stupid. Quit trolling.

[Anonymous]

"talk to their other countrymen Nannie's"

nice little nasty dogwhistle. (of course "nannies" is misspelled.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lafayette doesn't sponsor any spring break camps (the aftercare provider has a camp at a different location). This is DPR, which as PP said is notoriously horrible.

+1. You get what you pay for.

This is for all cases. The truth of the matter is, no one cares for your children the way you do. A few weeks ago, I was at the Glover Park rec center playground. I witnessed EVERY nanny on their phone. I saw kids alone, eating dirt, playing in dirt, playing near the trash cans, crawling all over the place with no supervision. I was shocked and so was the older woman I was there with. I thought about posting one nanny, in particular, but I decided it wasn't worth my effort.

It's true. Everyone thinks THEIR nanny is very attentive and would never do this. But 90+% of nannies do this.

This is one reason some people prefer a well managed daycare to a nanny. They are regulated and risk losing accreditation if they get caught doing something really bad. Nannies are more convenient though.

+100.

Like a PP said about DPR camps you get what you pay for. Average UMC working parents in DC seem to be penny wise pound foolish on this, hoping a single nanny saves on one or two kids daycare. Well off people get the nanny and send the kids to preschool so nanny can clean and cook without screaming kids then do pick up and be attentive and loving as possible.

I go to a lot of parks in NWDC and blown away by how inattentive almost all Nannies are. Almost as if it’s payback to employers for something. Or maybe they just need to zone out after dealing with your little hellions. Kids eating dirt, crying alone, pantless no diaper with privates exposed for several minutes while they look at phones or talk to their other countrymen Nannie’s. borderline child abuse. But in their defense it takes immense patience to be a good parent. Some gifted people can do this for another person’s child. But obvious that most of the nanny labor market in DC is not made up of such people even when they’re getting paid to do so.

What a fantasy! As an UMC mom, I couldn’t get a daycare spot. I didn’t have the luxury of choice on childcare. Also there are some great, professional Nannies out there. Your sweeping generalizations on everything is stupid. Quit trolling.

NP here:
Pretty much every daycare in downtown DC has open spots due to WFH. I'm in the office 5 days per week because the excellent daycare next door to my office had a spot open for our baby. And that's after we went through 3 awful, flaky nannies who we caught in lies or just wouldn't show up to work at 2x the price of daycare. These nannies were comically bad. Even our neighbors who paid $12K to a nanny placement agency had a string of duds and had to fire one after a bad incident.

NAEYC daycares are simply more accountable and structured.