This is so normal for daycare - you're overreacting

Re: This is so normal for daycare - you're overreacting

• charlotte989875 member

  

  August 22

  Literally could have been anyone’s kid, it just happened to be your sisters. If you told clients it was a family member instead of the generic “a child in the class has x disease, here’s the protocol” that’s on you. This is so normal. Little Leo didn’t get live at you to destroy your business. Get it together. 

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• banana468 member

  

  August 22

  I honestly question if a DC provider WOULD say who had it.  
  
  I don't love that their policies don't say who the culprit is whether it's who has the illness or who bit my child, but they're there to protect everyone.
  
  So LW, if you didn't have the statement with the indefinite article A child and never 'HER child' (thinking Fight Club references here for anyone who watched that movie) let this be a lesson.
  
  Lice checks are around everywhere!  Chiquita had to go through them before going to sleep away camp.  

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• short+sassy member

  

  August 22

  If I was a potential or current daycare client, I would find the owner's sister making a statement to "clear the LW's name" as incredibly bizarre, unprofessional, and off putting.  It also seems better for business to not have any mention of the previous lice problem on their website, instead of highlighting it, smh.
  
  I also think the parents who pulled their kids out were being pretty short-sighted, but they can do what they want.  Unfortunately, sometimes lice happens especially with small children.  They might go to their new daycare and it happens again.
  
  There was a "lice outbreak" when I was in 2nd grade and again when I was in 5th or 6th.  Nobody pulled their child out of school and sent them to another one in "outrage", lmao.
  

  

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• levioosa member

  

  August 22

  Is this exaggerated or do you just live in some uppity area where a lice scare is trigger enough to go through the hassle of finding an all new daycare? I've never been in a place where children frequent (school, daycare, trampoline facility, tea house parties, etc) where lice hasn't been an issue at some point. It's a super common issue for kids. It happens. If you told everyone your sister's kid brought the lice then that was totally on you. I'm sure all the parents with kids here have gotten at least one letter from their school saying something along the lines of "We regret to inform you that there was a recent lice outbreak. Please check your child's scalp, hairbrush and pillowcases for evidence of lice. If lice is discovered, we ask that you keep your child home until treatment is completed to help prevent the spread." 

  
  

  
  

  

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• ei34 member

  

  August 22

  I keep the shampoo and kit in my linen closet bc although we haven’t had a case (yet), we’ve had multiple exposures. It happens. 

  
  

  I’m questioning the parents who pulled their kids out over this. Isn’t childcare really hard to find?? I lean towards, maybe LW has been unprofessional before?  If LW really messaged the parents and said a kid who isn’t usually here was, and exposed everyone else - bc that leads to questions of the caregiver to child ratio being out of proportion, are there often drop in kids, etc.  That’s not included here so I can only speculate. 
  

  
  

  What I know for certain is LW shouldn’t be cross with their sister and nephew. 

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