I am a 23 year old college student in "small-town New England". I am currently working on my B.A. in Early Childhood Education yet I am bouncing around doing a mixture of part time nannying and work in a daycare. I have seen a lot of things that have made my skin crawl and swear up and down I will never work in a daycare ever again. Granted some are great, the rare combination of an experienced owner, knowledgeable staff, and small groups of children. They exist! I've seen it with my own eyes, and one day I hope to operate my very own school to the high standards I have witnessed.
I should also say that I do not think poorly of parents who chose to put their children in daycare, it is a very reasonable option. What I do have a problem with are poorly run daycares and preschools that charge an arm and a leg without delivering the quality service that a paying parent deserves. I don't plan on this becoming an expose like Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Project, which if you haven't checked out yet you really should. Instead I want this to be more of an unseen perspective into a world that almost every parent interacts with but never sees. Child care: the good the bad and the ugly.
Future posts will include some basic and unknown information about both daycares and nannying, things you wish you knew about what goes on when you're at work, horror stories from myself and other nannies and teachers I know, some cute true stories about some of the children "my kind" has experienced, the reasons we love the job and I will even be trying to make regular "recipe" posts that are quick and nutritious.
So stay tuned...
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