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I would absolutely pull my child ASAP.
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My child would not go there, ever again.
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@travellingbee: I agree; I would report her too.
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Is this a legal daycare? Is she licensed?
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I would pull my kid so fast. I think the fact that you're asking us is enough of a red flag--go with your gut, which it seems is telling you something is off here!
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I would not feel comfortable sending my LO back there. I'd arrange for something in the interim (beg family, ask a SAH mom friend to pinch hit for me for a few weeks, something) and just find a nanny that will watch LO 1 now and knows that Lo2 is on the way.
Another benefit is that LO1 will have a lot of change when LO2 is born. To also throw a new childcare provider in the mix could be a lot. So maybe being familiar with the nanny months before LO2 comes could be a really good thing.
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I think OP gets it, essentially everyone is saying the same thing!
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@codeitall: For me personally this would be a big issue thats the reason we always opted for a daycare center over a home care situation because there daycare center is muh more restricted area and there cant just be random people hanging around who arent parents or prospective parents. I would look into switching to an actual daycare if that sin your budget otherwise find someone else that will take it more seriously
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Thank you everyone, we had so many problems finding a semi-decent daycare (and yes, I know what you're thinking here) the first time around that I was really reluctant to try again. Turns out my co-worker has been going there for a long time and is just more comfortable with her judgement calls than I am (his child is also older which may make a difference) and is more familiar with her family (her older children help run the daycare during the summer).
She is not licensed in this state and mostly runs based on word-of-mouth through her family and neighborhood. Since we are one of the first folks who didn't know her beforehand, I'll tell her what we found unacceptable, inform my co-worker and just consider this an unfortunate learning experience.
Fortunately, within a day of asking around, my awesome neighbor and mom friend is willing to watch DS with her daughter while we work something else out long term. I'm personally hoping her hours work out so we can just hire her as our nanny
As for anyone else coming along late to the party, I'd encourage you to to odd hours of drop offs and pick ups as we would never have seen these flags otherwise.
Thanks again everyone!
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@codeitall: I totally understand. People have different standards of care (regarding your coworker). I have a friend who send both of her kids to an in home that was super happy with it, but would tell me stories that were all red flags/unacceptable to me. Like....the lady always put her kids to nap on the couch. They didn't have pack n plays or cots or nap mats or anything. And the daughter started there at 1. So that seemed unsafe to me. The kids watched a TON of cartoons and movies (again, starting at 1). And my friend was responsible for packing their lunch and snacks, but if she was ever late picking them up because of traffic or whatever, the daycare lady would go ahead and give them "dinner", but it would be stuff like a glass of grape soda with mac n cheese, and cake and cookies for snacks. And again, starting at age 1. And my friend was framing all this in a way that told me she loved it---like isn't it so great that she'll give them dinner when I'm running late? And isn't so great that she isn't rigid about nap times?
And inside I was like........ahhhh.....no, none of that would be great to me. But you know, different standards of care.
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@codeitall: I'm glad you were able to find a better child care situation!
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@codeitall: glad you were able to find something so quickly!
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