We once again bought an annual pass to a butterfly place (thanks, Groupon).
Here's hoping we use it more than once this time.
Kaden came home with the following 3 scratches/cuts on his face. He told me that he was tickling a friend while they were getting a drink at the water fountain, and his friend fell and he fell and hit his face on the water fountain. But it didn't hurt. Later, he told my mom his friend pushed him at the water fountain and he hit his face on the step- but it didn't hurt. Still later, when a lil' friend asked him :"hat happened to your face", Kaden said "I don't know."
This was on Wednesday, and the photo is from Friday. I took it after I called the daycare and asked 1) did anyone know what actually happened and 2) why didn't I get an incident report? The woman in charge is new- she didn't actually remember/know who my son was, nor did she know what happened as she "wasn't on the day crew." I used to work at a daycare, so I get this, but still: would you be upset at this? BTW, later I asked Kaden if he told the teacher about getting hurt and he said, no it was a secret. So we had another chat about the importance of NOT keeping secrets from teachers or parents. But I think 4 yr old boys who wear superhero shirts are starting to have more influence than I am. Sigh. It's almost enough for me to quit working right now.
And the pic above is a random fireman. We were at a school gym one weekend, to see a friend in a karate tournament, when the fire alarm went off. Someone checked and assured us it wasn't a real fire, but since I remembered the recent station visit (where we learned that it takes less than 5 minutes between "fire starting" and "house-consumed-and-everyone-dies", I talked our boys into a stroll outside to look for the fire trucks. And then they showed up! Very calm but quick, grabbing axes and shrugging into oxygen tanks. The driver stayed near the truck, and let Kaden go in to explore a bit.
2 comments:
When something like that happens with daycare, it's so unsettling. Makes it even harder to leave your child. I think if this is the exception rather than the rule, then it was likely something that happened quickly/by accident. Maybe a kid with nails that need a trim scratched him? Kids are fast as you know. I know this doesn't make you feel better! My best advice is if you are ongoingly unhappy with the daycare, look for other options. Also, communicate the degree of your unhappiness with the daycare-see if they create a plan to try to avoid this type of situation going forward. If the water fountain story is legit, then why wasn't anyone watching the kids while they were getting drinks? If they are a good place, they don't want a bad reputation to develop. It's so hard to get a straight story from young kids!
I don't know if you read/remember this, but Harper got scratched across the face by another child in preschool, probably three or four years ago now. I wasn't exactly upset that it happened because I know the teachers can't control every child's every movement. But I had a phone call about the incident before I even picked her up from school that day.
It would kind of bother me that no one saw what happened, or at least noticed something? Where were the adults?
An isolated incident wouldn't get me too worked up, but I'd really pay attention if something like this happened again.
LOVE the butterfly photo - we have a butterfly house set up here at a local arboretum in the summer, but I bet it doesn't hold a candle to Florida butterflies!
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