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fifi 09:55 AM 01-13-2018
Some days I just feel totally overwhelmed by all the sadness in the children's lives. The death of a parent, a mom who abandons her children, a dad who sexually abuses his daughter and somehow ends up with more custody than the mom, all the children trying to cope with the separation of their parents and all the tension and miscommunication that occurs, the children who are bounced around from mom to daycare to dad to daycare to babysitter to mom and on it goes. I feel like I am required to be not only child care provider, but therapist, social worker, special needs worker etc. All the sadness breaks my heart, and I often go home on the weekend and can't stop thinking about it. Two staff for 16 children is not enough, but it is the standard where I live.
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