Incident Report Frequency

[Anonymous]

How many incident or accident reports do you typically get? My 12 month old son has gotten two in the past two weeks--both injuries. Seems a bit excessive.

[Anonymous]

What kind of injuries? What do the reports say? There is a pretty big range. We do reports for any injury to the head/neck/face (you'd be amazed how often toddlers just straight up walk into walls!) and anything that leaves a visible mark. So again, it really depends on the context. It could be something to be worried about or it could just be a risk-taking toddler getting bumps and bruises as he goes recklessly about his day.

[Anonymous]

Is he a new walker? That might explain some of it if so.

Licensing generally requires that daycares/preschools do reports for even fairly minor incidents. That said, frequency depends on the kid--my older child got them often (1-2x/month, everything from biting/being bitten to crashing tricycles) while my younger one has gotten one this whole academic year for falling off a bench [now same age, same school]. They're just different kids when it comes to risk-taking.

It would only strike me as excessive if they are for things that should not have occurred--things where a teacher should have been supervising the child, etc.

[Anonymous]

Not excessive. Be thankful teachers are aware and writing it up!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not excessive. Be thankful teachers are aware and writing it up!!

It was always a rule that of a child got an injury we would have to write a report. Even the tiniest scratch. Also anything thing from the shoulders up we would have to call the child's parent immediately.

[Anonymous]

Ask yourself this...using the same criteria the daycare does (usually any injury no matter how insignificant) how many incident reports would you write at home? Kids get hurt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask yourself this...using the same criteria the daycare does (usually any injury no matter how insignificant) how many incident reports would you write at home? Kids get hurt.

+1 These days, it feels like my one year old DD is a walking, babbling injury machine. She had about a 4 week period where she went from one bruise on her face to another (all incurred at home because we're terrible parents) but at minimum there was always one black and blue mark visible at any given moment.