Teacher and Parent
Scenario:
We have notice that two of my preschool children would always come to class dressed in pajamas or extra clothing under their own clothing me and my staff member find it very difficult to keep helping the children to restroom and to keep taking off the other clothes. Sometime the children would over heat in these clothes. We have had several meeting with their mom telling her not to bring children in pajamas as a daily wear, to wear appropriate clothing and not to put extra clothes under the other clothes it is too much clothing.
How would you handle this situation?
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Hi shonna I think in this situation you should go a head and start documenting the unapproriate clothing and also start investigating the posibility of neglect or physical abuse and when you have enought to support a claim them you go ahead file a reporte with the aproppriate agency
ReplyDeleteHi Shonna. As a Director I would approach this situation with another conversation but this one would be to ask the parent why she dresses the children the way that she does. It maybe that she has an evening commitment that does not allow enough time for her to pick up the children and get them home to dress. She may also feel that she prevents them from catching colds by putting on extra clothing. Whatever it is I need to find out so that I relay it to the staff so they will not see this task as a burden but from the point of view of helping someone who needs it. This point in the conversation with the parent, I would be reminding the parent that we are here to provide quality childcare and that means to try and assist parents with different situations that may arise without compromising the care given to the other children in the center. I would also have the parent sign an agreement stating that she gives the staff permission to remove the extra clothing or change their pajamas to regular clothing. This would give the staff an opportunity to investigate any possible abuse without any confusion if there was no abuse found. I would also remind her that the staff would be performing this tasks outside of their normal duties, so if she could not up hold her end of the agreement and she would have to seek childcare at another center.
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