usual daycare rant, I know...hoo-hum

[Guest]

but I gotta do it to set my soul free to make soap.

A very nice employee just quit, she was a nice lady and we shared a similar vision, at least verbally. She wanted to jump in and get her hands dirty, doing childcare. I keep telling women it's NOT the same as taking care of your own children.

I could go on and on, I'm not going to but in every instance, workers THINK they gonna spend their shift telling me how to run my business, or reading a book while kids sleep.

They are never ready for the planning, documentation, forethought, communications, checking and rechecking, counting, remembering, cleaning...blah, blah blah that goes hand in hand with caring for the children of others. Childcare is NOT mindless work.

So the lady quit, she gave no explanation and I required none...which I think hurt her feelings...she wasn't good at childcare...she was lazy, which is the hardest thing for most women to swallow. She wanted to impose her views on being a vegatarian...and yet as soon as I knew this two weeks ago me and my daughter when out of our way to make sure the freezer and pantry were stocked with vegatarian based foods. We never expressly told her...but in two week this woman never opened certain food cabinets, never pulled out the rice cooker...she opened canned fruit before she would slice raw fruit for the kids, and she never dug deeper then the front layer of food in the freezer to see some of the Boca products we brought.

talk is cheap :?

 

[Deda]

We never expressly told her...

Next time hire a clairvoyant? Was this the fat one that couldn't bend or the illiterate one?

Maybe look at this as an opportunity to hire a quality person. Your little daycare kids sound as if they could benefit from being exposed to caretakers with a little more character, that were a little less of a character.

 

[dagmar88]

Well, taking care of your own kids is a fulltime job already, taking care of other kids drains an incredible amount of energie, both physical & mental...
If someone is not willing to give a 100%, or just plain lazy, that isn't doing the children or the name of your business any good.
She probably realised she wasn't in the right place.
Whish you the best finding someone who is competent!

 

[Guest]

We never expressly told her...

Next time hire a clairvoyant? Was this the fat one that couldn't bend or the illiterate one?

Maybe look at this as an opportunity to hire a quality person. Your little daycare kids sound as if they could benefit from being exposed to caretakers with a little more character, that were a little less of a character.

Well she helped us put the groceries away...I don't like folks that I have to TELL to read the box..that clearly says it's vegatarian substitute meat...it's wasn't in an industrial freezer, just a regular, eye level fridge freezer. No, the fat one moved and the illiterate one had an ephiphany and is a MUCH better provider after a long talk with her employment counselor.

Hate to tell you this but in 10 years I've had two excellent employees...a partially blind hispanic woman and an 18 year old polish immigrant...everyone else...and I mean EVERYONE ELSE, young, old, various races, education levels, weights and even sexual orientations...SUCKED BIG TIME as childcare providers...again because everyone thinks it's a slam dunk, wanna talk and text on their cell phones, don't want to clean and can't cook. If I were a man I would NEVER be able to find a "good wife" among the stock of women that I have to hire from!

Did I tell you about the blond, years ago, a practicing child psychologist, part-timing for me (she was fresh outta college) trying to raise extra money for a summer trip. Everytime I walked in the daycare, she was sitting on the floor playing solitare...after a week, she came into work heated, she was from outta town, and on her way to work she accidently drove around a police car, blocking a street where a crime had been committed, she drove through an active crime scene and got a $125 ticket and quit that day because the ticket equaled her one week pay with me. :shock:

 

[Guest]

I can't imagine how hard it is to find good workers for your daycare's . I am quite sure you hire the best workers that you can find.

Kitn

 

[carebear]

but I gotta do it to set my soul free to make soap.

A very nice employee just quit, she was a nice lady and we shared a similar vision, at least verbally. She wanted to jump in and get her hands dirty, doing childcare. I keep telling women it's NOT the same as taking care of your own children.

I could go on and on, I'm not going to but in every instance, workers THINK they gonna spend their shift telling me how to run my business, or reading a book while kids sleep.

They are never ready for the planning, documentation, forethought, communications, checking and rechecking, counting, remembering, cleaning...blah, blah blah that goes hand in hand with caring for the children of others. Childcare is NOT mindless work.

bolding is mine...

um, hello!!!... taking care of ones own child isn't (should not be) mindless work either. in our daily life there is a lot fo planning, documentation, forethought, communications, checking and rechecking, cleaning (not so much counting in my family but my brother has 7, so counting there).

I'm thinking some training would have been appropriate. Maybe written SOPs in place? Surely you have written procedures and especially policies on what children are taught - right?

 

[Guest]

but I gotta do it to set my soul free to make soap.

A very nice employee just quit, she was a nice lady and we shared a similar vision, at least verbally. She wanted to jump in and get her hands dirty, doing childcare. I keep telling women it's NOT the same as taking care of your own children.

I could go on and on, I'm not going to but in every instance, workers THINK they gonna spend their shift telling me how to run my business, or reading a book while kids sleep.

They are never ready for the planning, documentation, forethought, communications, checking and rechecking, counting, remembering, cleaning...blah, blah blah that goes hand in hand with caring for the children of others. Childcare is NOT mindless work.

bolding is mine...

um, hello!!!... taking care of ones own child isn't (should not be) mindless work either. in our daily life there is a lot fo planning, documentation, forethought, communications, checking and rechecking, cleaning (not so much counting in my family but my brother has 7, so counting there).

I'm thinking some training would have been appropriate. Maybe written SOPs in place? Surely you have written procedures and especially policies on what children are taught - right?

Childcare is a weird animal when it comes to women. Why? Because most women with a good heart, no matter what is the employment policy come into childcare treating daycare children as they treat their own children and they treat the facility the way they treat their own home. That's just a given you would have to accept as fact because it has been my experience across the board.

The second problem is most women are in serious denial about their own shortcomings as a parent and housekeeper. When you critisize their work ethics in the daycare, it messes with how they feel about what they do at home. Most are not ready to face the truth about how they handle their personal lives so they crumble in a daycare employment situation.

For example, women with overweight children or who are overweight themselves WILL sneak outside snacks into the daycare, they serve inappropriately sized meals to children. They will call me while on outtings and offer to buy inapprpriate snacks for the children. Women with dirty homes, throw trash bags out untied, use baby wipes to clean with. People with a lot of drama in their home lives with stay on the phone too much, women who don't attend to their own children's educational needs have a hard time concentrating on the educational needs of daycare children and ...

carebear if you worked for me, and you had access to the internet during working hours I'm sure my daycare kiddies would be lacking in attention because you would by habit drift away occasionally to see whats happeneing online. You'd swear you were not derilict in your duties because I'm sure you would say your online affairs don't affect your parenting responsibilities.

It's not the rules, it's women's dirty lil habits that have to be readjusted in a daycare situation.

For example I have this one employee, I had to have a meeting with her employment counsler, she tried to "cry" in front of her counselor that I unfairly called her untidy. I told her she earned a ride home because I could prove she was untidy at home. I made a prediction about what I would find outside her home. (an over flowing trash can on her front porch)...when we got out the car she just turned to me and admitted she was untidy as we were both staring at an overflowing green garbage bag in her front yard. Since then, she opened up to following the daycare "rules" more closely.