Originally Posted by Pammie:
...no not me.
One of my newer dc dads has been showing up at pick-up time, I've suspected after at least a few drinks on a few occasions...I've never said anything. But yesterday, my husband was home and working in the front yard and met this dad for the first time and they chatted a bit. After dad and dcb left, my husband comes in and asks me what I was thinking letting the boy leave with his dad in the condition that dad was in?! So it hasn't just been my imagination thinking dad hasn't been sober every day. BTW, my husband manages a restaurant/bar and can spot an un-sober person a mile away
But, according to a good friend of mine on the local police force, as well as my insurance rep that I called last nite, I can't legally NOT release the boy to his dad. The best they suggest is releasing the boy, and then calling the pd and reporting a drunk driver. So okay, legally, I can't stop a parent from driving their kids home from daycare when they're drunk...but morally?? My thought is to discuss the issue with dcmom...ideas...suggestions??
Does anyone have a clause in their contract about parents being sober when they pick-up their kids??
It kills me that after 23 years of doing daycare and thinking that I've seen everything, now I have to deal with this
So sad.
Let me start by saying that if I suspected that one of my parents were drunk taking their child, I would be calling the police and having them sit by my house and pull him over. Having said that, can I ask why you think he's drunk? Is it his behavior or can you actually smell alcohol on him. The reason I'm asking is because I have 2 relatives that have MS and when they are having issues with their medicine, they appear drunk. They slur their words, they don't walk right, just like a drunk. Actually my one cousin even when she wasn't having problems with her meds, but just having a flair up, she acted drunk. There is also a local newscaster in our area and everyone asks if he is drunk, when in fact he had had a stroke. Is it a possibility that that is his issue?