Quote Originally Posted by mamaof4 View Post
Bear with me this entire situation is just awful.

A woman I am friends with in suburban Chicago just learned that the home day care at which she had been leaving her 2 young daughters has been providing negligent care, abusing children, etc.

-A parent stopped by one day and the provider was sleeping- leaving several children unsupervised

- Her youngest was given benedryl to sleep- so she would not fuss

- The day care providor's teenaged son has been accused of inappropriate behavior with the kids

My friend is destroyed. Her heart is broken, she feels like she has failed as a parent to protect her children. But, she needs to work. How can she learn to trust again? As a provider would have you have any special ways of making this family feel at ease?
Wow. What an awful thing to happen. When I read that, it reminded me of when my oldest was just little - he was 6 1/2 months old at the time and in daycare when the provider asked me for a new bottle of Tylenol for him after only having him for a month. I was thinking she had lost it but when I asked why, she flat out said, she used it to help him sleep better at naptime. I was horrified and quickly found a new daycare after that. May I ask how your friend found out that her youngest was given Benedryl to sleep? Because I'm really not sure how one would tell unless the provider fessed up, you know? I'm curious what signs I may have missed nearly 12 years ago now...it still pops into my head and bothers me after all this time.

Has she found a better daycare now? Hope so.