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nannyde 05:28 AM 06-10-2018
Originally Posted by Unregistered:
OP again:
Thanks. I hope it was clear that I only wanted to come down at pick up/ drop off and made it clear the lunch thing would be occasional. I have a job and need to be there- I was never suggesting every day. In fact I had told her maybe once or twice per month!
See that's where it becomes muddy. You are one parent and you say you wanted to come down at both drop off and pick up and lunch couple of times a month. Another parent may feel it's reasonable to do lunch every day. Another parent may hang out for a VERY long time at both drop off and pick up and do lunch every day.

As a side note... I can't imagine that kind of adult traffic on my stairs. I definitely would NOT want parents bringing their children up and down my stairs. I did daycare in one house for 13 years. If I allowed JUST parents dropping off and picking up kids in the basement I would have had over a HUNDRED THOUSAND trips up and down my stairs with parents holding their kids. That's with eight kids just on just the day shift. I did evening shift in the house for about ten years too.

In my other house I ran an average of twelve kids per day where their playrooms were upstairs for nine years. That's over a hundred thousand trips too and just counting the day shift.

If we added in the night shift between both houses my guess would be at least another 100K

What do you think the odds are that in 300 thousand trips on my stairs I would have had a number of accidents of parents on the stairs with their kids? That's just arrival and departure numbers. That's not visiting during the day.

As I said before I had three falls on my stairs in 21 years and all three were with my staff assistants with their own kids. Not once did they fall with someone else's kid and I never fell once carting kids up and down.

I have enough problems getting parents to make their kids behave on a ten foot walk from driveway to front door. I can't imagine allowing them to parent their kids inside my house, especially on my stairs... the most dangerous thing in my house.

I'm a firm believer in parents being able to go into the play and sleep areas unannounced to count kids. That's really the only way to know how many kids are in the house. A quick in and out to count heads. Other than that, I can't imagine why a parent would want to be in the playroom watching the other kids and staff. I don't want other parents around my daycare kids and I don't want myself or my staff being watched working.

I live in a tiny town that has a school preschool for ages three to five. You can't even get into the building without being buzzed in by the office staff. Once into the building you are not allowed to go ANYWHERE but the office. If you need to see your kid he is either escorted or sent to the office. Parents are never allowed in the preschool classrooms unless they are having all parents in for a party or something. They are never allowed to drop in unannounced and they certainly aren't allowed to stay in the classroom. They serve special needs kids within this group who are as vulnerable as an infant but the parents of those children have to follow the same rules.

When my son was in preschool in the early 2000's they allowed parents to "visit" any time they wanted. That lasted about a month and they shut that down. They had constant parents coming in and out and staying to watch their kids play. It was highly disruptive. They changed their rules to entry into the office only and took the kids to the office if a parent wanted immediate access.

The concept of being able to come and go into the play areas or sleep areas seems to be such a big deal with home daycare but the parent willingly allows no immediate access to the room when their kids go to preschool.
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