Originally Posted by Mom o Col:
Unregistered, your problem is you can't handle the plain truth. It has little to nothing to do with Nan and her presentation. She gets down to brass tacks and tells it like it is. Personally, I prefer her "presentation" to sugar coating and petting any day.
Checks and balances in a "facility"? Ha! I worked in a facility for over ten years. Nope. All checks and balances meant was that the director's favorites could get away with things like wiping a kid's face with the same rag she just wiped the floor with; yanking kids by the arm; leaving the room to chit chat while her partner was left with 8 infants on her own. And those are just the tip of the iceberg. If I couldn't "hack it" in a facility it was for those reasons. I recommend (if you can "hack it") a book titled Doing Time. It may enlighten you. You will see that it's not always that darn child care provider but too often the parents who are the problem. I often say it isn't the kids I care for who are difficult, it's their parents.
http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Time-Rea...rds=doing+time
This is also true of my experience in daycare centers. I worked at two while getting my teaching degree. I worked at two expensive daycare centers in an expensive part of town. I reported child abuse and that employee didn't leave the facility until 2 YEARS later. Yes, years. I cited multiple people witnessing it and this was a videod facility. Actually, both of them were and the parents watched the videos but there WERE certain areas the video cameras couldn't see and the "bad people" knew about them. I said NEVER again and I have stood by that while a buddy of mine in my community works for the ONE large daycare center here and it is also filled with issues. To be a little more specific, rooms with very small children are left without an adult there for a few minutes at a time, children have wandered outside of the facility and are walking the streets, employees mistreat the children, etc. So, checks and balances? Not so much.