Thank you to everyone to posted a reply from advice. In the context, this post probably made me sound like a horrible daycare provider. I should have provided a little more background. First thing, it is not my choice to be out of ratio. It happens every single day. We are currently very understaffed. We even have to have temp people come in and help out just to have us make it through the day. So it is not my choice to be out of ratio. I hate it. Because yes it can be crazy downstairs, and I’m by myself trying to manage all of it. Second, I do do active head counts, and check our children in and out regularly on the sheets we have.
With all this being said, I love my job! I love those kids more than anything in the world. I’ve been loyal to them for 2 years, and I am hoping that things will straighten up around there. But I will take your recommendations to heart. Thank you to everyone who posted.

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