I agree we need to vent. We need to share and support each other but in an ethical an proffesional way. I do not think there is a need to denigrate other human beings, especially when you are making a living from them. You can address any issue but focused in what it is occurring to you or explain what is your situation. There is no need to go over others people's lives or activities on what they do or not after your hours of work. As mentioned before, this site is not just for caregivers to vent, it is for parents to search for childcare, and caregivers to advertise. And along the way it also offers a chatroom to support each other through empathy, experience an thoughtful advise.

When you go through some comments, it doesn't show respect for others private lives which also doesn't speak in a positive manner from our side including me as a."caregiver". I know centres have a break room but, lately they're also taking action about the discussions teachers have, mostly ethical, proffesional and respectful. The college of early childhood educators have sent letters to this regard. They now have fines and if a family finds out how some of their personal information is being shared or handled they have all their rights to take legal actions for invasion of privacy.

This post started with the length of work ours and how some children stay until the end of the opened hours. Most of us have given advise and reason and ideas of reducing hours, charging more, giving choices to parents in hours with extra pay etc. I think this keeps it more focused to the problem or issue.