Bad experiences with day care providers

[mark40]

Thank you

Good post

[greenborodaycare]

I am a mother and had a BAD experience with a daycare provider which is why i quit my job and started doing daycare myself. It has been a LONG time since that incident passed but i will never forget it, and it will never cease to cross my mind at least twice a week while I am looking at these precious children I help to raise, and I will never stop asking myself wtf this stupid lady's problem was. And she is on these forums as well. And whenever I see her to this day with her other dck's (cause she is in my area) it takes all I have not to walk up to her and punch her in the face.

[Skysue]

I am a mother and had a BAD experience with a daycare provider which is why i quit my job and started doing daycare myself. It has been a LONG time since that incident passed but i will never forget it, and it will never cease to cross my mind at least twice a week while I am looking at these precious children I help to raise, and I will never stop asking myself wtf this stupid lady's problem was. And she is on these forums as well. And whenever I see her to this day with her other dck's (cause she is in my area) it takes all I have not to walk up to her and punch her in the face.

WOW What happened? Very curious?

[Judy Trickett]

I do not have any such bad experience because i always prefer the day care school where this types of problems are not created.It always better to keep your kids in the daycare than to leave them on the any individual daycare.There are lots of such daycare who are dedicated to the kids care and grow them in a environment of love.

I don't agree. Bad stuff happens in ALL daycare settings - both centre-based and home-based. Have you ever been to www.daycaresdontcare.org? Go there. Read the comments from workers in CENTRE based daycare. You would be surprised by the stuff that goes down there. One of my best friends is an ECE and worked in "quality" daycare centres and once she had kids she stayed home with them because she said she would NEVER put her kids in a daycare centre.

I have had the opportunity to have live video feeds of a few daycare centres and let me tell you, they are NOT all they are cracked up to be.

[carla]

That website is horrible. As far as I can tell most are from the states. When I started in daycare and something was not right I stood up to the director about it. I also phoned licensing and reported it. My friend had her child in a licensed dayhome and the provider left all the kids at home by themselves when she went to the bank. Should I assume all dayhomes do
That. ABSURD. I am a director and my staff are always in ratio even if that means I am in ratio. There are good and bad daycares. We have an open door policy and my families are more then welcome to come anytime of the day. We do not watch tv all day nor are my staff allowed to use there phones during the day. My staff work only 8 hour days and make more then minimum wage by alot. Ok now that I have ranted on enough I need to go to bed so I can sit in front of a tv all day and play on my phone (not)

[Cocoon]

Carla, where r you located? Please say you are in Calgary and you are looking for stuff

[Cocoon]

*staff*

[mom-in-alberta]

Nope, Carla is in Edmonton.
As in life, none of us should be painting ALL types of care with the same brush. There are both pros and cons to centre based care, as there are with home based. Each family has to make that decision based on what they feel is important.
And that is all I have to say about that. LoL

[Judy Trickett]

That website is horrible. As far as I can tell most are from the states. When I started in daycare and something was not right I stood up to the director about it. I also phoned licensing and reported it. My friend had her child in a licensed dayhome and the provider left all the kids at home by themselves when she went to the bank. Should I assume all dayhomes do
That. ABSURD. I am a director and my staff are always in ratio even if that means I am in ratio. There are good and bad daycares. We have an open door policy and my families are more then welcome to come anytime of the day. We do not watch tv all day nor are my staff allowed to use there phones during the day. My staff work only 8 hour days and make more then minimum wage by alot. Ok now that I have ranted on enough I need to go to bed so I can sit in front of a tv all day and play on my phone (not)

I think you were disagreeing with me. But what you said was exactly my point - neither is horrible or terrific or the other. Each care situation is unique and all have pros and cons. It really bothers me when people really preach against home daycare (or centre daycare, for that matter).

There are good AND bad home daycare AND centre daycare.

[dodge__driver11]

I am not sure how to feel about that website (daycaresdontcare.or g) wether it is a scare tactic or not...I truly believe as a parent of a 3 y/o that I MUST DO the "leg work" in order to see wether a daycare/home is good for my child...Though I consider what reviews have to say --I do not base my opinion solely on them...

If a director/owner takes his/her job seriously, the children will be happy, safe and well adjusted...If not...well...we all know what has the potential to happen. I ALWAYS MADE surprise visits to my daycares, sometimes to the staff's shagrin (sp) because they thought I was a hovering parent....but so what?? (I am an ECE as well)

I wanted to make sure that they were doing the job they needed to do, and I did pull my son out of one dayhome because of what I saw, I also reported to early learning....

I guess what I am trying to say is we can't let websites do our work for us.