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I actually change the children at least once a day. usually after lunch. then they get dirty a bit after as well but parents take the children in and we usually wash their hands and faces before they leave. I did have one mom ask me to put smocks or something on her son cause he was coming home with some paint on his clothes (very little). I told her to provide me a shirt he could dirty and recommended that he doesn't wear his best clothes here. He is still always the nicest dressed.
Markers are fun, paint is fun, playdo is fun, mud is fun, messy food is fun and none of the parents in my daycare have every complained. I warn everybody up front and remind them once in a while that any clothes worn to daycare are at risk. I have a little girl who is a fashion plate, with more clothes and shoes than I can imagine owning but her Mom has never been upset if anything gets ruined.
Heck no apples & bananas, DO NOT apologize, be proud of your funfilled program!
My crew is always full of sand, grass stains, paint spills, etc. at the end of the day. Never had a parent complain. Quite the opposite in fact! Well..I do get the stink eye from one of the mom's cause she insists on dressing her 19 month old like a Children's Gap Ad. Clicks her tongue as she's dusting off sand out of her daughter's $$$$ frock. But seriously....the child is not even two!! Put her in some fun play clothes already. But Oh Well...this is our program. Don't like it?? There's the door :rolleyes:
I don't try to keep kids clean and I don't change them unless they've soiled their clothes with bodily fluids or are wet from the water table. My families are told right off the bat that the kids get dirty, they play in the grass, paint, play in the sandbox and I always tell them that a dirty kid is a happy kid.