Miss DayCare
Charlotte, NC
Female, 30
I work in a highly respected, franchised Day Care Provider. I have taught in Toddler classrooms as well as Pre-Kindegarten classrooms. It's a wonderful and rewarding profession and I love every minute of it. I have become friends with many of my parents and they all ask questions which is why I want to open a dialogue here so I can be as honest and open as possible about your most prized posession's early childhood education and what really goes on in the classrooms and hallways!
I do not think less of parents who stay home and their kids are in daycare. Some want them to have the social experience and that's fine. I do have a problem with parents who just want their child out of their hair so they can go about their business. And I can spot those parents from a mile away. Why even have a child (and have the ability to stay home with them) just so you can put them in a daycare facility for eleven hours a day five days a week? One parent was a stay at home mom and I never met her, the housekeeper would drop her kid off and pick her up. That child was in my class from 7 AM until 6 PM Monday through friday. The housekeeper would feel awful for the child and pick her up early and take her on daytrips because she wasn't allowed to bring her home before 6. Ridiculous.
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It's pretty equal between the amount of teachers that have kids and those that don't. it definitely helps if you do have kids and need daycare because then you get it at a pretty good deal! I worked at daycare centers for a few years before i had my daughter, and it didn't make me a better parent, but definitely more patient with her. And now being a parent, so of the parents of my kids offer some pretty good advice on things that I would have never thought of on my own. It doesn't make someone a better parent, but it certainly does have its resources you can use.
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Some of my Pre-K kids remember me when I see them around town, especially if I have kept in touch or became friends with their parents after they have left, but for the most part, they are too young.
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I've never had a child abandoned at a daycare center, but there has been instances where there is a custody issue (and again communication is key in this situation) and the other parent picks up their child without consent from the other one and then they get to school to pick up their child and they're not there....you can imagine the chaos that ensues...and I have seen that happen more times than I can count. I have never even heard of someone of just leaving their child in a daycare facility and not picking them up....and I hope I never do hear of something so awful!
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There's really not much you can do. There are centers that have a policy that for each minute they are late after closing time, they owe one dollar. Unfortunately, that doesn't deter parents from being late, they just hand you cash when they walk in to pick up their child. If you have a chronically late parent, and you have to stay past close, you just have to grin and bear it and wait for that child to graduate to the next classroom so that parent can become another teacher's problem!
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you must have an early childhood certification to be a lead or assistant teacher in a classroom. To be a "floater or teacher assistant, you do not have to have that qualification. To obtain a certification, you take a class (EDU 119). Kindegarten teachers have to have a bachelor's degree.
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Yea there have been many. Mostly with the kids that physically harm other kids. Behavioral problems are not easy to take care of, but a bit more manageable than that of the kids that bite or hit. Biters are the absolute worst because they break skin sometimes and that can get the kids sent home that got bit and the child that bit them (due to health concerns). I have had many meetings with parents regarding biting and hitting, some parents are responsive and want to "fix" the behavior and be very hands on, and some just think that kids are kids and they will grow out of their negative behaviors. Again this is where communication is key. Sometime parents think daycare teachers are glorified babysitters and do not take us seriously. What they fail to see is that being in this industry is a career choice for many of us much like choosing to be a doctor or lawyer is to a parent. We are passionate, and want to make a difference in these childrens' lives!
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