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[quote=Anonymous]Plenty of kids are safe in day cares. Reputables, liscenced day cares require two adults with kids in the room at all times. The day care and after school programs I visit have the adult who is taking kids to the bath room wait outside the bathroom door, checking in through the door.

We took tours of each place we were visiting. One we rejected because we saw only one adult in the room with infants, the explination was that the other worked was out sick and the receptionist was helping during the day. I know that is a violation and I did not believe for a second that the receptionist was filling in because she was giving us the tour. The rooms seemed small and a bit crowded. The kids seemed happy though.

The one we choose had a good vibe, the ratios were spot on and the lead. teachers all had a good number of years in the program. It felt good.

There is always a chance that something changes and things go wrong, that is why youlisten to your kid. One friend had a kid who suddenly hated going to day care and cried every day. He was telling me about it at work. I suggested changing day cares because that sounded off. A month later the teachers in another class were arrested for negligance. While it wasn’t his kids class, whatever allowed the negligance in the other class permeiated the building and his kid wasn’t happy. They changed day cares and his son was back to his normal self. No more tears or saddness.

So check on your kid and if they seem to be off, drop in the day care and see what is happening. A fair number have cameras so that you can watch or check in, look for one of those.

I remember waking up in the middle of the night when I was 8 months pregnant crying about day care because I wanted to raise our child and not day care, my job was relocating me 45 minutes further from our house. It was awful thinking that was another 90 minutes not with my soon to be born baby. Hormones suck....  Any way, I was able to change companies and stay in the same position so that didn’t happen. But the anxiety was real. I get it.

Day care can be alot of fun. DS would tell me to go back to the gym and exercise more he was in the middle of a game or an art project or a book and he didn’t want to go home. He has friends from Day Care that we still see and hang out with. He started writing and reading there. It was a good experience. Take your time and look for one yu are comfortable with.[/quote]

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