Is Your Daycare Safe? Three Signs that it’s Not

17 Feb Is Your Daycare Safe? Three Signs that it’s Not

Sometimes, the first sign that daycare child abuse is going on is a nagging feeling in the gut of the child’s parent. Whether the abuse is physical, psychological or simply negligence, parents oftentimes know that something is wrong. If you have that feeling and you’re not sure whether or not it’s time to act on it, take a look at the following signs of the daycare facility that may be guilty of daycare negligence.

Easy Access

As a parent, you should always have immediate and easy access to your child. However, you should always have to interact with an employee of the day care facility before your given access. In short, it should be relatively impossible for someone to walk in off the street and to have access to the children. There should be a front desk where people check in and where IDs are checked if someone is unknown.

Too Many Children

If the daycare facility seems crowded, they may be taking in too many children. This is a very bad thing. Some children need a lot of specialized care and, when the staff is too overwhelmed to provide it, it may have significant effects on the child’s health and well-being. Make sure that the daycare workers don’t have too much on their plate. If they seem stressed, it may set up a very bad situation for the children.

Authoritarianism

Children do need discipline, every parent knows this. When children don’t need is to go to a daycare facility that has the same standards for disciplines as the Marines. Daycare workers should be competent enough that they can keep the children in line without being abusive towards them, without screaming at them and, most certainly, without physically laying a hand on them. Make sure that your children have sincere respect for the people who work at the daycare but that they also have absolutely no fear of the people who work at the daycare,

If it turns out that there is daycare child abuse going on, you need to contact an attorney after contacting the authorities. You may be able to file a lawsuit to get compensated for having been put through this abuse. Only an attorney will know whether or not you have a case, and there’s no guarantee that you will win. It is, however, well worth investigating.