Kids bringing things to daycare...

[sunnydays]

I have it right in my contract that I don't allow kids to bring toys from home. It leads to fighting as the kids almost never want to share what they have brought and then there are issues of safety (choking hazards, etc) and you have to keep track of it and worry about it getting lost or broken. I provide enough toys for them here...their own toys stay at home. Zero problems this way. My own kids know that whatever they bring into the daycare must be shared and if something isn't safe, I don't let them bring it. The daycare kids don't even know which toys are actually my kids' toys and which ones I bought for the daycare because we treat them all the same way. Most parents have not instilled this kind of sharing in their kids and I don't want to have to deal with the fights.