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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They get left in a bouncer or swing crying.[/quote]

I worked in daycares during college. This is true. The workers get frustrated a lot quicker than parents do. Once a baby cried so much and so often that the parents were asked to find another daycare. It was really horrible being in the room listening to crying all day long. I'm sure it was stressful for the cranky baby and all the other babies. [/quote]

Hate to agree with this, but it's absolutely true.  Of course when parents are in and out you won't see babies alone and crying.  But it happens.  No one is going to hold your baby all day long no matter what the day care tells you.  You do the best you can to comfort a crying baby, but you can't ignore the needs of the other kids for one difficult baby.  At the end of the day if all the babies are fed, changed, and safe, it's a good day in an infant room.[/quote]

You two are crazy if you're seriously proposing that ALL daycares are like this.  I am not naive, I work for CPS and leaving my baby at daycare for the 1st times was so hard for me and of course daycare centers are on their best behavior when they know parents are around... but I also am not an idiot.  For the 1st few weeks I dropped in at all different hours, with zero warning, and watched from the window before ever entering.  There were MANY times they had no idea I was watching until I started opening the door.

No bad daycare center that is leaving kids in a swing all day is going to be able to "pretend to be good" if a parent drops in to check it out all different hours, and the center gets used to that parent as someone who is checking up.  I'm not saying I never saw anything that worried me, and I definitely had a couple "talks" with the manager and the director of the center, but overall I knew I was seeing how they really were most of hte time.

Just because your place was that bad, do not assume all places are.[/quote]

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