If the daycare seems unwilling to divulge or discuss them, well, that could be a sign of even bigger problems to come. When Marcy Barbaro registered her one-year-old daughter with a public daycare in her community and hour north of Toronto, she expected daily reports on how Santana spent her day — her small triumphs, her frustrations.
In fact, Barbaro finds she has to quiz the caregivers with specific questions to get the information she craves — like what other children her daughter bonded with, what new skills she learned, what made her laugh or cry. Bronwen Lloyd starts counting as soon as she sets foot in a daycare. The next step, says Lloyd, is to ensure that the activities at each area are age-appropriate.
Or perhaps your child has dark skin and the only dolls in the daycare are fair-skinned. Culturally, religiously and racially diverse children populate most daycares and while it may be unreasonable to expect caregivers to cater to each child individually, parents do have a right to expect sensitivity.
That includes encouraging children to share their own stories and avoiding exclusive language. Read more: 5 daycare problems solved Daycare germs: What you need to know How to prepare your baby for daycare. Preschool 10 things your daycare may not tell you You've looked long and hard to find a good daycare and now you feel you can finally relax. Photo: iStockphoto. You were told the facility is peanut-free, but… On a bright day late last summer, Condor was happy to find her four-year-old son in the playground outside his daycare.
This article was originally published in December Joseph Communications uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. Sticking to what has worked before seems like a good idea when you are switching child care programs. Change can be a hard thing for a child to deal with. Keeping some things similar, like reading a book before you leave the house, seems like it can really help make the transition go smoothly. Thank you for sharing. It makes sense that switching to daycare in the cold season is a good thing to avoid.
My kids definitely have a better time warming up to a place if they can go outside and feel free. Thanks for posting. Thank you for the help. My family and I just moved, so my daughter will be going to a new daycare in our area. She had some great friends at her last daycare, so it could be a rough transition. I really like the idea of doing a test run. I think that would help her realize that it is a new place, but she will grow to enjoy it as well.
Do most daycare facilities allow you to do a test run like that? I really liked your post! My family and I are going to be moving soon, which means that our kids are going to be changing where they go to daycare. I think that your tips are great, and will help us make the transition easy for them! I think that this will help make the transition easier, because they will have a feeling of closure.
Thank you for the great ideas! I really think that the tip about having the previous teacher write down some notes about your child is very useful. Right now, I am in the process of moving my family to another state and I will definitely need to witch daycare centers. I want this to be a very smooth transition for my two sons and I am sure that they will have great experiences at their new daycare.
However, I know that my children are shy and take a little while to adjust to new circumstances. What can I do to help my children engage socially with the new children that they will be around?
Thank you so much for sharing all of this advice on switching daycares! Once I find a new daycare, however, I will be sure to make the routine stay as similar as possible!
That way it is more likely that they will have a smooth transition. Keeping as much of your routine the same as possible before you drop them off would help as well. Children like their routines.
These are some great tips, and I appreciate your advice to make your child aware of the change when transitioning to a different daycare. I recently landed a new job, and my schedule is going to be changing quite a bit, so I need to switch daycare services for my daughter. My wife and I are taking our two sons to a new child development center, and we found this article to be very helpful. We loved the advice to do a test run, and so we decided to take them to the school a couple times to show them around.
They already feel much better about it so thanks for sharing this with us! If you are discouraged from doing this, or are asked to call before dropping in unannounced, it may be a sign of inadequate care. Ideally, daycare staff should be trained in early childhood education in order to nurture your child's skills and development.
The American Academy of Pediatrics also recommends one staff person for every three to five small children, and one staff member for every seven to ten older children. If training in early childhood education is not required of the staff at your child's daycare, or the center is understaffed, it's time to look elsewhere. In addition, the center's director should be available and easily accessible for parents, staff, and children.
If your center's director isn't around during the day and is hard to reach, it's a good indication the supervision at your daycare is not sufficient. Low Standards for Safety and Cleanliness Are emergency phone numbers, such as poison control and the hospital, visible and posted for easy reference?
Does the staff hold fire drills? She also doesn't seem as attached as the previous teachers to our daughter, but she's only been in the class a little over a month. Inevitably, when we show up in the morning, they need to shift around ratios between classes because my daughter's arrival puts her class out of ratio.
It turns out that the center that our friends attend and love has an opening. It's further away from our home but her class would have three teachers and twelve kids. The ratio will go up to three teachers for fifteen kids in a few months. It's also known as a really great place that follows the Reggio approach. I'm reluctant to switch because my daughter has been with her little friends since she was in the baby room. On the other hand, my spidey sense tells me that something is off.
Teachers seem unhappy and stressed and my daughter, who is not great at transitions, seems unusually unhappy in the mornings. My husband feels the same way. What would you do? Spidey Sense for the win. She will make new friends faster than you can say 'new friends'. Listen to your spidey sense. It's there for a reason. Best answer: I'd give it more time.
Every time our oldest changed rooms at daycare, I would spend weeks saying, "I just don't know about this Your daughter will adjust she's two, so expecting her to adjust to a HUGE change in her world like an adult would makes no sense and so will you. Drop-offs are hard on everyone, including the teacher, so you may not be seeing her at her best. Maybe you can drop in one day at a different time just to see how the rest of the day goes?
Best answer: I'm with the spidey sense crew. We switched our kids at 3 and 4 mths from one daycare to another under similar circumstances; turnover was very high, teachers were stressed and the directors were more interested in looting the accounts than taking care of the school. Anecdata follows: We were SUPER stressed about moving them not so much the infant but definitely the 3 yr old, who'd been with the same crew of kids since she was 16 wks old but they did great.
I chalk a large part of that up to how the teachers prepped the kids for the new student; they all knew her name, she had her own labeled cot and hook to hang her backpack, and the teachers had this adorable thing where the kids would shove us out the door at dropoff. She's two. Think about that.
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