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[quote=Anonymous]I received an accident report from my NYAEC accredited daycare center today when picking up my almost 3yo. The report stated that my son may have red pressure marks under his arms from an incident earlier in the day. Evidently he was refusing to follow instructions when several kids were being taken to the restroom and sat down in the hallway and refused to move. The center director picked him up under his arms and the report states that "because of his weight" we might observe "small pressure dots" on his body.

How would you react? On the one hand, he's fine - I don't see anything besides the usual bumps and bruises. But it seems wrong - I know working at a daycare can be a physically taxing job, but the idea that the center director would have been physical enough with my son that she expected she might have left marks on his body just seems unacceptable - particularly when there was no safety issue or other compelling reason where manhandling makes sense. My husband is totally outraged and wants to pull our child immediately.

We've been at the daycare through 2 kids, but my son has been unhappy for the past 2 months, since some teacher changes and a family vacation. He is never aggressive but occasionally does what we call the civil rights protest - he just sits/lays down and refuses to move. The daycare has been writing up incident reports and seeming unreasonably frustrated with this. The director also keeps harping on his size, as though we have any control over that - he's been 95 percentile for height and weight since birth but he's not freakishly large, and this is a daycare that runs through preK so they have plenty of bigger kids running around. Anyway, I'd be grateful for feedback - what would you do? Is this normal? acceptable? a reasonable precaution for a well-run daycare? or a big red flag that something is wrong?[/quote]

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