Kyleigh was up early this morning, and we made it to the day care a little bit before 9 AM. I meant to watch the webcam during lunch, but I got busy and forgot. By the time I thought of it, it was already 11:54 and all food had been taken away. I did watch them getting ready for the nap. After most other kids were settled, Kyleigh was wandering around in the center of the room. Then a teacher grabbed her and put her back to her cot. It was off camera, and they turned off the lights soon after that.
I called the center in a few minutes when it looked like all kids had gone to sleep. I spoke to the teacher, and she told me Kyleigh finished all her food at lunch, and she was drinking her milk at that time.
When I arrived to pick her up, I was told that she had a small accident today. It happened at 11:30 when they came back to the classroom from the outside playground. Kyleigh tripped and fell on her face. Supposedly they were not allowed to give kids any first-aid medicine, so they just applied ice. I was a little surprised that they didn't bother to tell me when it happened, especially since I talked to the teacher after lunch. I guess it really wouldn't do any good if they did. But wouldn't you want to know about it as soon as it happened? I really wish I had turned on the webcam sooner.
When I went to the room, Kyleigh was inside alone with a teacher, while all other kids were playing outside again. Kyleigh had a cut on her nose that was still bleeding a little, and a swelled upper lip. The entire nose and mouth area seemed a little bit red. She was very happy to see me and immediately waved goodbye to the teacher, as if she couldn't wait to get out of this place, and I don't blame her! The teacher was a different person from the one that was with her at lunch, so I couldn't ask more detail about the accident and how Kyleigh handled it. I wonder how long she was crying about it.
After we got home, she was extremely thirsty, to the point that she was yelling and crying about it. She gulped down 3 oz of water, had some cantaloupe, and finished the whole 6-oz serving of chicken noodle. I was really surprised that she still finished 5 oz of milk before she went to bed at 8 PM. She looked starving to me today.
I changed her into a short-sleeve onesie tonight, because it was really stuffy and the temperature is going to be in the 80s tomorrow, they say. I turned on the ceiling fan to cool her down because she was a little sweaty. She still wakes up coughing at night, but she can roll back to sleep. I think she should recover from her sinus infection after the weekend.
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I was a kindergarten teacher for many years - 3 - 7 yr olds here - and I can tell you that there are all kinds of things you mention that are at least unprofessional. It's high time to investigate other options...
I can't seem to get over the thought that the staff is used to NOT keeping parents informed. I have to agree with Christina that the daycare workers seem to be unprofessional. In the case mentioned in the above article, the visible indications were such that they could not be ignored, so the daycare worker could not simply pretend that nothing eventful had happened. Maybe they were hoping that there would be no evidence for you to discover and enable them to keep it confidential among themselves. I am hoping that I'm wrong, but I find this to be a likely inference.
You mention that the web cam has "blind zones". The daycare staff surely knows where those are and would act accordingly with any activities that they wouldn't want a parent to know about.
Would you know why the web cam was installed in the first place? Is there a law in Virginia requiring them? Have other parents been concerned about what might be going on in the facility?
I talked to the manager and she said their policy is that they give parents an injury report at the end of the day (which is what I got), and only calls immediately if the kid is in danger (but I don't know their definition of "danger").