Originally Posted by Former Teacher:
Because yes the parents are PAYING for a service for another adult to WATCH and CARE for the child. Not to be sleeping. Of course you don't put a price of a child. But in this day and age of sue happy people, you can never be to cautious.
My State DHS tried to implement rules that we couldn't do overnight care unless we had an adult awake thru the night and checking on the kids every fifteen minutes.
The Union put a screeching halt to that. They implemented some physical requirements of the home to accomodate overnight kids but were NOT successful trying to implement an awake adult at night.
A rule like that would have stopped all home day care at night because the cost of paying an adult to stay up all night would have been enormous and finding a provider who didn't work day shift to do it would have been impossible.
The Union enlisted the assistance of some of our corporations who have overnight workers who need home day care. Once the biggins got involved in it they backed down. Sad but I don't know if they would have been successful if they companies who had to hire the overnight workers wouldn't have stuck their noses into it.
Anyway... they backed off of it because the truth is that kids don't need an adult watching them sleep. If we are going to have regs like this there has to be MONEY to pay for it.
You said: Of course you don't put a price of a child. Ah well parents do. The put a price on the child everytime they allow them to sleep without an adult in the room. Money could solve it. They could pay money and have someone watch their kid sleep but they don't. NOT paying for it is as much of a "putting a price on children" as paying for it is "putting a price on children". It works both ways.