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Daycare concern...

LadyBugMom2010LadyBugMom2010
in Babies: 3 - 6 Months

LO goes to daycare while I work.  My job is right across the street from her daycare so I often drop in on my lunch and breaks to visit.  A few weeks ago I stopped in to visit and all the kids were in "story time" in one room.  So I went in to get her so I could take her for a few minutes to visit.  I looked at her 2 teachers and neither of them were holding her so I looked around the room and some other woman was holding her.  I knew I recognized the woman but I didn't think I recognized her from working at the daycare... it was driving me nuts because I couldn't think of who this woman was or why I knew her but it bothered me that she was holding her - and LO's 2 teachers weren't (they weren't holding or taking care of any other children -they were both just sitting there).  So, I go to work yesterday and I see the woman who was at the daycare holding my daughter! She is an early intervention provider in the town I work in - it turns out she was there supposedly working with another child at the daycare but instead she was sitting at story time holding my daughter..........

I'm really bothered by this but I feel like I missed the opportunity to say something about it.  Am I overreacting? or would anyone else be bothered if the daycare let someone who doesn't work there hold their child? 

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  • Laura_LeeLaura_Lee

    You did not miss an opportunity, and you are not overreacting.  Someone that you do not know was holding your child.  Liability reasons alone should have kept that from happening - what if something happened while your child was in her arms??? 

    Say something, pronto.  This is your kid, and you have every right to be pi$$ed that someone you did not know was holding your child when they are supposed to be under the care of the certified day care workers.

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  • LESP10LESP10
    I can relate. There's a 20-something year old who works at my son's daycare who's mother visits from time to time and I came to get my son before and she was holding him and it struck me as odd. She does not work there. The place is family run so I was kind of like..I get that you are related, but my son is not a toy for everyone and their mom (ha ha) to play with. The older woman thinks he's "so adorable" and wants to hold him, but I was bothered that they let her. I didn't say anything though. :/
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  • CodyGHCodyGH

    I think it's odd.  If you want to say something, I don't think you'd be out of line, but you might want to ask some questions first.  Then if you don't like the answers you are hearing, just politely tell them that you are not comfortable with it. 

    I guess I can see PP points that if she is regularly there and is trained in child care or the likes, then it is kinda okay.  But if that's not the case, then I would not be okay with it.  I wouldn't want anyone that I consider to be a complete stranger holding my child.  Maybe it's just paranoid me, but I would be worried about the possibility of other people (not just this one person) holding my child and possibly trying to leave with them.  I know it would probably never happen, but I'd be worried about it in my mind.  And you are paying them to lessen your worries, not increase them.

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