Help!!! - Canton,MI

Updated on September 24, 2008
K.W. asks from Canton, MI
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MY child is attending a home daycare right now and I told her provider that I would be calling to speak with her about some problems we have been having with her service.

- First off I have been working with my daughter on the amount of milk she will recieve. Some days she will come home with bottles she hasn't drank and she crying like she hasn't been feed. One day when my mother picked my daughter up she had vomit all over her clothes, hair, car seat and the provider said to me when I called her, "Sorry for over feeding her". It is my belief that any child should be cleaned up before leaving child care or a provider should offer to do so even when the parent is knocking at the door. I don't feel that it should be explained to any child care provider or mother for that matter.
- There was another time when her diaper was not changed all day (8 hours) I have different diapers for home and for daycare and she had the same diaper on that I left her in and it was falling off her body.

- Also I have labeled everything that belongs to my daughter so things would not get lost but it seems that other toys (one specifically which is very dirty looking) ends up in her bag. Its not a big deal it just really gets to me. Execpt for the other day when I found a pair of white victoria secret panties in her bag. I gave them to her and she said my daughter's bag is in the laundry room and it probably fell in. My concern would be why she doesn't check her bag to make sure everything is in her bag, or not in before she leaves and I wouldn't have seen it.

These careless mistakes really give home child care a bad name in my opinion. This provider is very nice though I really don't know her to well. Anyone will be nice to get your money so I am not to sure about keeping my child there. My question is when I call her this evening what exactly should I say to her? I would like to be careful with my works because my child will still be in her care for the next couple of days or untill I find another provider.

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M.H.

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I agree with the previous poster, pull her out of there as soon as possible. A childcare provider should not need to be told that your daughters diaper needs changing and you would like her clothes changed if she vomits on them. That is so basic, even a 16 year old babysitter should get that. You are paying her to be your daughters carer for the day and to leave her in same diaper for 8 hours is absolutely disgusting. I used to watch my friends daughter and didn't know her that well when I first started but I still treated her like my own, would even put her in the bath on the odd occasion she was sick.
This person is not attending to your daughters basic needs anywhere near adequately, get someone who will.

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K.G.

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I would take a couple of personal days from work or ask a family member to help for a coupe of days and pull her from the daycare today. You didn't say how old your child is but it sounds to me like she is being neglected. At the very least her basic needs of being fed and changed should be meet and it doesn't seem like that is happening.
Blessings, K.

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M.O.

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OH god do i feel your pain. It is so hard to find trustworthy child care. I believe it is also equally hard not to look like a naggy/complainy mother when there are clearly odd and unusual things happening to your daughter. I would tell her everything you told wrote to us and let her just have a chance to explain. I guess their could be a reasonable explaination for the victoria secret panties, however it is odd that she wouldn't look in the bag and make sure everything was there and nothing was misplaced. The diaper thing would just piss me off. It takes 2 minues to change one, and depending on if she went #2 in her diaper, my son used to get diaper rashes something terrible if it wasn't cleaned up soon after he went. In my opinion though...i think even with reasonable explainations, I would still find another caregiver. There are alot of great people out there who run daycare facilities. I know it's so hard to transition your child and yourself, but in this case it sounds like it's worth it.

good luck K.!

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H.T.

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I agree...pull her out immediately! That is horrible, I can't even imagine. Your poor baby girl:( There are SOOO many other places that are great...if you need suggestions let me know!

H.

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