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[quote=Anonymous]These are not Simon Center families posting.

That is not how families respond to hearing about potentially harmful behavior. Most parents aren't immediately dismissive...instead they ask more questions, are concerned etc. They don't write 5 star reviews like the multiple responses here.

Daycares are staffed with humans. Humans who get tired, frustrated, who are mad at their boss, who have money problems and life stress and coworker issues. They work to pay the bills. There aren't a lot of jobs where you don't need an education so if you like kids then daycare is a great option. But then you take the stress and frustration of dealing with lots of kids...all day long. And their parents, and the parents who don't come back for 10 hours. You deal with irritable parents, demanding parents, critical parents, parents who stay and talk at the end of your very long day. You want all the pics and details as though they were the ones with the kids all day every day.  You deal with kids fighting and biting and crying and pooping and yelling and complaining and whining...and multiply this my 10 or more kids...day in and day out.

The best daycare workers have bad days. The worst ones have good days. The good ones get so frustrated with the bad ones who don't pull their weight or who make the situations worse. its a job that is hard to leave. There aren't many other options when you don't have an education and your experience is daycare, so you burn out but stay.

You care about the kids, but they aren't your kids. It is like when you have other people's kids over. Fun to have them but glad when they leave. They are exhausting and tiring. You always have to act happy and smiling and keep the parents happy. You have to be energetic and calm and not get annoyed or mad at the kids even though  they are annoying and maddening. You bottle it up and let it out when no one is looking.

I have no doubt both those things happened to OP. They happen in every daycare, in the ones that win awards and the ones that don't. Some people and places work harder to cover it than others. People make mistakes (like playing with laundry soap), they get frustrated and put a kid down on a chair too hard. That is the reality of daycare and the humans who work there. Not all that different from how annoyed and frustrated you get with your own kids when you spend 40-50 hours a week with them, with other kids around, and all while staying in the same space. [/quote]

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