I have a relative age 15 months old in a daycare in ky. I have known the owner on a social level for several years. This is a daycare center that employee's family members. In the beginning I had several concerns about the daycare, and it has only gotten worse as time goes by. The daycare is a small daycare with 2-3 workers. I have on several ocassions heard the owner/ director and also her employee's talk about other children in the daycare making unkind remarks about them, I also have concerns about safety issues with the playground, small chocking toys, handwashing? Children left alone while sleeping, unsupervised. Visitors having contact with the children.

On several ocassions I have ask several questions concerning activities we do not want the baby to participate in and meal time, we want her to be feed in a high chair . Nap time we want her in a crib or cot. I have on every ocassion that I have picked her up and she is sleeping found her sleeping in the floor, where everyone walks. And sometime she is alone in the room with everyone in another room laughing and talking. The main door is not locked anyone can walk in. There is only a bell that rings. Is this not violating daycare laws? Are they not bound by some kind of standards? The owner and her employee's have become very offensive towards my family. I hate going to the daycare and I hate that my relative has to leave her child at this daycare. If we ask simple questions I am answered with short, usually rude answers and snide remarks, that are usually unkind and mostly remarks about the baby, for instances, if she is eating when we go pick her up they are quick to point out and say, oh she is doing what she does best, I have not seen the owner or her workers pick up or touch the baby in awhile, only feeding her. Usually when we pick her up it is unorganized, loud and things are a mess! There seems to be no structure at all. I feel they have gotten mad at me and my family and they are taking it out on the baby. How can we know that they are giving her care during the day, feeding, supervising, and giving some basic guidence, usually they are just all sitting around talking and the kids are running and jumping They are very rude, when we ask questions, it seems to offend them that we would question them, as though we have no right to be concerned about the baby, like did she eat today, what did she eat today, did she have a BM today. The family wants the baby to be in a structured setting with rules, feeding times, nap times (in a bed) we don't place her in the floor to sleep and noone else should. I have truly learned that people are not as they appear in public. The more we try to resolve it the worse it becomes. I feel it is out of control, What can we do to resolve this problem, can this be resolved, should we even consider resolving this problem and staying with this daycare? I could write more!

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