Interesting Day Care Debate
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| Fri, 06-20-2003 - 1:19pm |
For those of you parents who use day care, and use providers with children of their own, are your kids treated like part of the family or are they treated as the "day care kids"? I was following an interesting debate on another board about providers kids being treated more special than the day care kids. Special food, different rules, etc..there was a provider posting who as a child attended day care and she and her sister were actually made to eat separately in the kitchen while the family ate their noon meal at the dining room table. I was floored at the number of providers who thought this was an ok thing to do.
As a provider, I treat all children the same INCLUDING my own. If I'm serving macaroni and cheese, my kids (who are 18 and 21) eat macaroni and cheese. If we are having dinner and it just happens that I have a couple of kids left at the end of the day, they sit down and eat dinner with us (this has happened numerous times). When my kids were young they were participants in all of our day care activities...no special rules or treatment.
What do you think? Do you think kids of providers should have special treatment? Or do you think they should be treated the same as all the other kids?
Sue
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eileen
Oh, that just pulls at my heartstrings. I think if any of us put ourselves in the shoes of a daycare child and how it would feel, the answer is obvious. Can you say Cinderella? Of course, a parent will feel differently about their own child than one they are caring for. But, treating them diffently, sitting at a dinner table with their own family while the other kids are in a different room, how sad. I'd never let my daughter stay in a situation like that. One shouldn't do childcare if they are worried about interupting their own family time. The child should be treated "like one of the family" if they are taken into their home for childcare.
Maybe, just maybe.