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Post by irishmuse on May 8, 2007 12:50:43 GMT -5
So it's less than what I made at the Cafeteria. That's a little sad/scary, that people taking care of children earn so little!
Perhaps parents should ask what the care providers make per hour before deciding to send their kids somewhere. But then, with such a high turnover rate, I would wonder anyways. If there are new staff every few months, it can't be a great place to work--so I personally would NOT put a child there.
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Post by erzulie on May 8, 2007 21:11:09 GMT -5
It's not good for the kids either, to never have stability. Especially considering most of them spend the majority of their waking hours in the place and are, essentially, being raised by the day care providers.
Anyway, most parents never took an interest in the treatment of the teachers (which was bad even other than the bad pay). They never seemed to make the connection that stressed out, poorly compensated workers would not do as good of a job taking care of their kids. The thing is, even when you really believe in what you're doing, it's hard to do it well when you're stressed to the max all the time, and everyone who works there is! Even if the parents didn't respect us as human beings, they should have cared about how we were treated because of how it affected their children!
On a side note, considering how little most of the parents at that particular day care respected the teachers, and considering that they were entrusting us with their children, it sort of made me wonder how much they valued their children....
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Post by chloelouise on May 10, 2007 8:29:54 GMT -5
The nursery I use to work in was meant to be one of the best in the area which scares the hell out of me! I was on what they called a training course, this basically meant they could get away with paying me 50 pounds for four days work, that about 25 US dollars! (starting at 8am finishing at 6pm) To give you all an example of the kind of parents we dealt with Ive got two little stories. One, we had a little girl that started at the nursery at 4 weeks old and went everyday (she was 3 went I started work at the nursery), her dad would drop her off at 8 in the morning and arrive in the car park at 5.30 every night where he would sit and wait until 6 o clock when the nursery shut. He once arrived an HOUR early and sat in his car until the Nursery closed, unfortunately his little girl noticed his car in the carpark and broke her heart crying for her dad, one of the assistants went out and asked if he'd like to see said little girl and he replied "I pay till 6 oclock she can stay there till 6 o clock" There was another time when one of the little girls had a HUGE asthma attack and we actually had to ring for an ambulance her mum did come to the nursery which I guess is something but when asled by the paramedics if she would like to go in the ambulance she said "No, I'll follow in my car, I need a fag" (fag = cigertte) I have been on more then one occasion comepletely appauled with the way some adults treat their children, Tony and I are desprete for a family and it makes me so angry that these people that could quite happily live thier lives without children seem to be the ones that get pregnant so easily. I know this makes me sound incredibly bitter and I dont know maybe I am, but come on people if you are blessed to have children enjoy them, love them, talk to them instead of at them, treasure every moment you have with them and DONT rub it in the faces of those that cant!!!!
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Post by erzulie on May 10, 2007 16:10:46 GMT -5
I wish I could be shocked by those stories, but I'm not! We had a lot of parents who dropped their kids off as early as possible and then waited till the day care was about to close to pick them up. Never had anyone wait in the car though! They just went home and relaxed for a while. I so frequently wanted to suggest to them that they try actually raising the kids.
My time working there is the reason why I'm so against people having children when they're not sure they want to or are not sure it's the right time. I think a lot of these "bad" parents probably had kids not because they wanted them, but because that's what you're just supposed to do. Or maybe some of them just did it because the kids look so damn cute in the family pictures, or because they want heirs, or because all their friends were doing it. Some of them may actually have wanted kids, but had them too soon or with the wrong person because of that whole issue with the biological clock ticking. It just sucks because their kids end up being raised in day care centers, which are miserable places to be! Some people i don't know what they're thinking. The woman who heads the regional corporate office for that day care had to go through all kinds of fertility treatments to have a baby--so you'd think she must have really wanted one, right? Yet when the baby was 6 weeks old, she left it with a sitter so she could go away on a cruise. The poor baby probably didn't know who she was by the time she came back!
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Post by ouchy on May 10, 2007 16:17:58 GMT -5
The woman who heads the regional corporate office for that day care had to go through all kinds of fertility treatments to have a baby--so you'd think she must have really wanted one, right? Yet when the baby was 6 weeks old, she left it with a sitter so she could go away on a cruise. The poor baby probably didn't know who she was by the time she came back!
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Post by erzulie on May 10, 2007 21:53:48 GMT -5
I just sent Carolyn a message about the d a m n filters to see if she can remove them altogether. I think we are all old enough to be okay without them!
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Post by ouchy on May 10, 2007 22:13:42 GMT -5
Why in the H E L L would you do that? jk! LOL. Gosh! Remember when we couldn't even type "vagina?!?"
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Post by irishmuse on May 13, 2007 18:22:33 GMT -5
The woman who heads the regional corporate office for that day care had to go through all kinds of fertility treatments to have a baby--so you'd think she must have really wanted one, right? Yet when the baby was 6 weeks old, she left it with a sitter so she could go away on a cruise. The poor baby probably didn't know who she was by the time she came back! I second the
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Post by Nari on May 13, 2007 22:46:48 GMT -5
Well for me, here in Japan. We have 5 kids but 4 are teens. The youngest is 4. This past year we put her in the CDC for a few hours a day so she could get socialization with kids her own age. I am a stay at home mom because I just dont trust anyone to really watch my kids. I mean when my older ones were younger I had to work due to financial reasons BUT my best friend watched them for me so at least I know WHO was taking care of my kids and that I could trust that they were being well cared for. My youngest one loved it there because of the friends and activities she had there. I hated it because they were forever changing teachers. I mean her pre-school class went thru 12 teachers from Sept to May. I pulled her out, just couldnt take it. The program ran from Sept to May (supposed to be June but they couldnt keep enough staff to keep her program open) I pulled her out in April when they yet again switched teachers. That was it for me. Myself and many other parents complained how they treated the preschool kids like they were an afterthought. Luckily my daughter was not traumatized by all the changing caregivers BUT I know there were several kids who just DID NOT adjust. I can go on and on with many more complaints... but it is like beating a dead horse. But yea.. I will only go back to work when she is in school for a full day. No day care centers here.
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