OT: Hug your children tight tonight ...

[ErinGoBraugh]

How incredibly tragic for all involved, especially around the holidays. I'll remember everyone in my prayers tonight. Things like this make me remember just how precious life really is, since it can be taken from you in a split-second. [img]graemlins/wilted.gif[/img]

[amyjoy]

I stay home and am glad I do, but I have worked some part time too.
I used to do nighttime daycare at a health club and it would make me sad to see little kids crying because they had been at daycare all day and then had to stay one to 2 hours at the health club after being picked up from daycare. Some were so hungry and would complain.If my children were there with me and I had brought them a meal along. The daycare kids would all want their food.
One boy complained to his mom that he was hungry and tired and she bought him a health bar before she worked out for 2 hours!!!
I was peed on and threw up on many times.I couldn't believe how many moms brought their kids when they were dripping snot and had fevers.
One mom used to bring her daycare kids that she was being paid to watch,and left them for us to watch for 2-3 hours a day!!!
People took advantage of the free childcare so much. One kid came every morning and every night each day without fail. He would always have a poopy diaper, his mom loved it cuz she never had to change him, because somehow it always ended up being timed just right so we always had to change him!!! LOL!!!!

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ December 02, 2005 02:39 PM: Message edited by: cassieandnicolesmom ]</font>

[cami713]

I love how some of you know everyone and their lives, and what is best for every child in the entire world.

psnlrd, thank you for your comments, which I found very helpful and polite.

"I understand exactly the wonderment of why and how a College Educated/Career person could or would want to leave a job. I arttribute that to age and experience." I'm sure at some point in time, your age and experience might whack me upon the head, as well.

But, like younger-you, I just can't imagine going to school for 6ish years, and "giving that up" when *I* was MORE than happy at daycare, and know I have a better relationship with my mom than my friends who had stay at home moms do. Of course, I wouldn't assume my kid would be happy just because I was when I was little, but I really think one can tell with their own kids.

I will say that daycares, of any type, aren't the best place to be when there's stuff going around. I got sick a number of times, and head lice once, from day care. But, I got sick at school a lot, too. Things are going to happen no matter where you are.

[Miss_Nellie_OMalley]

You have misunderstood my statements entirelly. I nor anyone any where other that God himself can take into account each and ever situation.

What I think is wrong is parents who PLAN on having children, just to push them into day care... from 7 in the morning to 8 at night... and the area I live in this happens all the time. Is it because these poor parents have to work such long hours to provide a decent living? NO! Father works a six figure job and Mom runs around town meeting "social obligations" (going out to eat and hanging with friends). 5 days a week for these long hours (some children 7 days). These children have been put into day care since they were practically born. This is wrong... and there is no excuse for it... whats the point?

There is nothing wrong with a healthy dose of child care... after all we send our children off to school... but 5 days a week for 8 hours + I'm sorry...

I don't think anyone should dedicate every living moment to any one thing (we'd go crazy) breaks are healthy... especially from children... or we'd all loose our sanity and probably start trying to take our dolls for potty breaks. Its just children are not packages that we can drop here and there and everywhere and only take out for our enjoyment.

I am sorry if I offended anyone, that was not my intention. I am not trying to hit anyone who puts their children in day care or was put in day care as a child... My sister was put in day care (preschool) when she was 3 because she was lonely and need socialization (i had hence gone off into kindergarten)... nothing wrong with that. My family has done quite a bit of work with preschools and day cares, and I've seen the rampage of parents who want no more to do with their children than to dress them in the morning (like dolls), drop them off, pick them up, and tuck them in at night, not because they have to but because they'd rather be galloping around town with friends.