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Anonymous
| Get real everyone, common sense Dad rules. |
Anonymous
I loved the "Gift of Fear" and have been meaning to read "Protecting the Gift," BUT I love this response. You made me laugh. Signed, An educated, paranoid alarmist 
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Anonymous
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Yeah. It's not that IKEA might lose your kids. It's that you have no idea of the qualifications or intentions of the people that they hire to work in Smaland. Some years ago, there was a play area similar to smaland in a northern virginia shopping mall. One of the workers was an 18 year old boy with no criminal record. One day, a family checked their elementary school aged child into the play area and went off to shop. The boy followed the girl into a play structure and exposed himself to her. She was alone with him and totally out of view of anyone else. He said nothing. He did nothing but stand there for a few seconds until she said that she wanted to leave and call her mom. He agreed that was a good idea and left the play structure with her. Her parents picked her up, she told them what happened, and they called the police. He was arrested and convicted, but the point is that the my-kid-won't-go-to-Smaland posters aren't so far off the mark.
And for the first person who says does your kid ever leave home? Yes. She does. She participates in activities and has a normal life as possible for a kid with a mother who works in the criminal justice system. |
Anonymous
THANK.YOU!!!!! |
Anonymous
I am going to bet that since Ikea has employees working with children in the state of Maryland they have to follow "daycare" type rules and that anyone working in smallville or whatever it's called has had a background/criminal check. I bet they are fingerprinted and photographed. Ikea is an international company, have they ever been cited for a chile molestation incident in one of their playland centers? |
Anonymous
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This is 18:59 posting again and I will bet there is no such regulation requiring that those workers be fingerprinted photographed or background checked. It is the same idea as a daycare at a gym. Although I can only speak to Virginia, temporary drop off centers like Ikea, Gold's Gym, etc. are not daycare centers and are not subject to the same regulations or restrictions as daycares. That is why they are called things like child care centers -- they are not able to call themselves daycare centers. The company that provides the service may or may not check its employees. If the scheduled employees for smaland call in sick do you think they close it? No. They shift somebody else in there from somewhere else in the store. So by your logic, all employees would have to pass criminal record checks because they might all be called into service in smaland. And I can assure you that not every single Ikea employee is free from criminal convictions.
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Anonymous
Thank you nothing. Honestly Small land doesn't have anything, other than the bathroom, that is out of view. There are cameras and large windows so you can see how your children are doing. As a SAHM I have found checking them in while I got a cup of coffee to be priceless. I never worried about their safety, knew they were having fun, and I got a little breal from it all. No harm no foul. |
Anonymous
Um, no. The MD state guidelines for child care providers specifically limit the definition of a child care provider to one that tends to more than one non-related (to the child care provider) children for more than 20 hours per month. Places like Ikea generally get away with not being included by the consideration that most people are not going to try to put their children into the area for more than 20 non-contiguous hours (in half hour or sometimes one hour segments) in one month. |
Anonymous
| How often do they "clean, clean" the toys, like the jump in balls. I get grossed out thining about my kids jumping in there. |