Comments on: Day Care Diva

By: Daycare Worker

Daycare Worker — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:08:59 +0000

I hate to say this, but my experience is that this sort of thing is pretty normal in the daycare business. There’s a lot of really rotten daycares out there, I’m afraid. It’s not as though daycares offer top wage and benefits, attracting the cream of the crop.

All these problems wouldn’t raise an eyebrow with any Social Services. They’re commonplace.

For the record, I work in a daycare, which I think d0es an awesome job. It helps that we’re a non-profit community organization.

By: poster

poster — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:03:42 +0000

There was also a nepotism element– for a few weeks one of her husband’s cousins was visiting and sent to work with us, a sixteen-year-old who was absolutely useless. The worst of it was when I was blamed for her poor work (i.e. putting a baby down for a nap without changing his diaper first, washing dishes so poorly food was still visible on the plates.)

By: massageon

massageon — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:34:18 +0000

I hate to hear stories like this because I have a little one myself. I HOPE you called the county/state on her and reported her. The parents need to be alerted to this behavior as well!!! It scares the stuffing out of me to think that this is happening to these helpless children w/o someone doing something about it!

By: anon

anon — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:29:23 +0000

I would have been anonymously calling the state licensing board. That is unsafe.

By: EatsKeys

EatsKeys — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:17:12 +0000

This sounds like a someone I used to work for. She used to run a daycare and had two college-aged kids (one of whom was a manager even though he never hung around more than a few hours a day.)

By: BikeLizard

BikeLizard — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:15:25 +0000

Not to be on a high horse, but those kids were in danger from Owner’s Son and her incompetence. In the US, there are laws to protect whistle blowers, and that place needs to be shut down. You did what you could with the stuff on hand, now call Children’s Protective services and save those kids!

By: tisheli

tisheli — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:07:23 +0000

I would have thought we worked for the same crazy lady, but my crazy preschool/daycare boss was A, not K. I so feel your pain.

By: rawr

rawr — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:28:05 +0000

That’s just sad. :/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:48:04 +0000

Those kids don’t stand a chance.

By: TMS

TMS — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:43:25 +0000

I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that this woman ran a day care center, or that she had children, one of whom was kicked out of several pre-schools. I agree with em, I hope this place was shut down. I also hope this woman faced charges of child endangerment or neglect. Guess whose kids are going to grow up thinking the world owes them something?