Unregistered 05:47 PM 03-05-2010
I need some advice from some providers who have been doing this for a while. I've been running my own in-home daycare for 5 months. I went from two kids to being completely full just through parents referrals, so I feel confident that I'm providing more than acceptable care.
In early January I got a 5 year old who definitely had some issues. He was constantly hurting other children in my care. I gave his mother a written warning after in the course of a day he cut another child's face clawing him, pushed over one of my toddlers onto the hard floor, and continually hit all the other kids over the course of the day. A week later, again in one day, he shut a little girl's entire hand in the door, kicked a fellow preschooler in the face, pushed my 2 year old into the corner of a dresser and bruised his back, and hit my older son. I gave the mother two weeks to find alternative care. A week later was the final straw when he punched my son in his belly and snatched his art project from school away from him and slammed it onto the hard floor breaking it into a million pieces. At that point I told his mother that tomorrow would be his last day.
This child obviously has some serious issues (and the parents DO NOT DISCIPLINE IN ANY WAY). My husband works with children and is making me feel guilty, saying that he could never give up on a child...did I do the right thing???