Daycare woes

[Tippiechick]

So, Max just started a new daycare after us keeping him home for a month to get well.

When I went for the tour, everything was great. Tuesday, when I dropped him off for his "get to know you" day, things were still pretty good.

But, today we had some probs.

1) When we came in, neither of the teachers even said hello to us. I had his diaper bag and his bag with his nebulizer in it on my shoulder. Plus, I was holding him on the other hip. The teacher who was up did not offer to help me with anything. I had to sit him down in the floor and get everything out of the diaper bag for them.
From the time I brought him in until the time I left (about 5 minutes), they never even acknowledged his presence. The only thing they said to me was, "Are his sippy cups labeled?" When I came back from filling out some paperwork, I looked in and he was still in the floor crawling around. They still had not paid him any attention.

2) When my husband went to pick him up, there were two girls that didn't even look 18 in there with the infants. What they hadn't told us on the tour and at enrollment was that his teachers leave at 4:45. So, for almost an hour, he would be with these young girls. My first concern was, "Are they going to be able to recognize an asthma attack if he has one?" Do they even know that he is to get a treatment if he starts having an attack?

3) The girls did not ask for any ID from my husband. This was the first time he'd EVER been there. He just walked in and said he was picking Max up. They said, "Ok," and got his stuff ready for him. That is a major violation...

4) I know that Max is pulling up and will have spills, but on his FIRST day back, he came home with an accident report. He fell and hit his head so hard that he has a knot. Max is the oldest one in the infant room. He's nine months and the others are all about 3-5 months. So, I am seriously concerned that they are spending the majority of the time caring for the little ones. I think they are letting him crawl around the floor all day because it's an easy way to get him out of their hair. He has NO ONE to play with all day. They are too small to interact with him at all. And, the teachers are seeing to them.

I am so pissed off. Things seem so different from when we enrolled him on Tuesday.

So, I am going to talk with the director tomorrow about the situation. We are in the two-week trial enrollment phase. So, if she doesn't satisfy my concerns, then we're pulling him out and weighing our options.

I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THIS HARD TO FIND QUALITY CHILDCARE.

I just had to vent. If I didn't I was going to have to just sit and bawl.