38 years love the children "is there help for parents"

[playfelt]

It isn't just you. I have been in childcare for over 25 years too and because of that we have gone through several generations of parents and each one is more restrictive than the other. When I first started it was almost expected that a child would fall out of a tree at daycare and break an arm because afterall they were there to play and not at home where they would have done the same thing. Now if a child gets a scrape we have to fill out accident reports and fret the parents will report us or at minimum pull their child for lack of supervision. I blame that reporting to some extent because parents have been raised to fear everyone and everything. No one wants to be blamed for normal occurances. Big brother so to speak is watching everyone and parents have been pushed into those bubbles by misunderstandings and misdealings with children's services etc. And manufacturers are taking advantage of their irrational fears and the cycle has to stop soon. Is it any wonder kids are maturing later, or in some cases not at all. It really is scary and I think more so because we know what it used to be like and what kids used to be like and capable of and what we deal with now. I try my best to give my daycare kids the freedom they need to explore and learn without being on their case all day long.