S/O Does your daycare have nanny cameras?

[Anonymous]

The cameras that you can check on the internet and see what your child is doing during the day when you are at work?

No daycare in our area has them and I assumed incorrectly that none did.

[Anonymous]

Yes! I wouldn't consider using a daycare that didn't have them. Where do you live that that isn't common?

[Anonymous]

We are in Los Angeles and no daycare I could find has nanny cameras. I wish ours did.

[Anonymous]

Look for a franchise. I think the companies like Kiddie Academy can manage it because there is a central IT department to help all the individual locations. Your average local daycare probably can't handle the tech involved with setting up and maintaining a secure server plus the app or website to access it.

[Anonymous]

Bright Horizons doesn't have cameras.

[Anonymous]

No, and I've worked in and sent my son to some of the top, most well-respected, professional, accredited programs (including one that posters here are constantly lamenting that they can't get into). All have had security cameras outside the building / playground, but not in the classrooms.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Love it.

[Anonymous]

Why is it necessary to monitor your children while they are in
daycare? Aren't they at daycare so you can be at work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, and I've worked in and sent my son to some of the top, most well-respected, professional, accredited programs (including one that posters here are constantly lamenting that they can't get into). All have had security cameras outside the building / playground, but not in the classrooms.

What daycare are you talking about? I would love to get my DS into a great program. Thanks so much, PP!

[Anonymous]

Ours does not. There may be some that do, but it isn't the norm around here. In Ohio.

[Anonymous]

Our center doesn't have it and I don't think I would want it to. We get daily reports and periodic pictures that gives me a good sense of what is going on. Constant video access would be a distraction and cause unnecessary angst at times because you could see a brief moment your kid is upset when he has otherwise been happy. Of course you could see fun moments to, but I get that when we are home together and can't afford to be glued to a camera hoping to see something without losing time that would make it harder to see my kids in the evening.

[Anonymous]

Ours didnt have cameras. We could drop in at any time though aside from nap time when it was discouraged.