Do You Really Need MORE Information About Choosing Child Care?
Every parent who needs to leave the house to go to work is concerned about their child’s safety while she is in the care of someone else.
I have written in the past about challenges parents face in finding the right place for their child’s day care. Tips for Finding the Best Daycare for Your Child, [...]
Need Information on Child Care? Look Here.
The National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education website has lots of valuable information for parents (and others) looking for help with issues surrounding child care.
One of its most valuable pages is an A-Z list of links to websites that provide health and safety tips and information related to [...]
Daycare Providers Flying Under the (Regulatory) Radar
My friend Ken Levinson, is a great child safety advocacy lawyer in Chicago. He sent me a link to an article about a tragic case in Wisconsin in which a five-month-old baby suffocated while at an unlicensed facility. Landon Schultz’s parents needed a place for their baby to stay while they worked and chose an [...]
Hyperthemia Kills – And Summer Is Not Even Here, Yet
NEVER, EVER — EVEN FOR A MINUTE — LEAVE YOUR CHILD ALONE IN A CAR.
Summer 2011 has not even yet arrived, but a child has already died from hyperthermia. (Hyperthermia is the term for what happens when a body overheats and cannot regulate its temperature after being exposed to extreme heat.)
In August 2009, I posted [...]
Heat + Child Left in Daycare Van = Tragedy
I wrote some information here and here about what to look for when evaluating a daycare center. But, I left something important off those lists.
If you need a daycare provider to pick your child up and take her to the facility, you must make sure that it has a system THAT IT ACTUALLY USES for [...]
Burns Hurt!
Burns hurt! And, burns REALLY hurt a young child.
A few years ago, I represented the family of a two-year-old boy who died from the infection he got after suffering scalding burns over much of his body when boiling water on the stove fell on him. (The injury was especially devastating to the boy’s parents. He [...]
How Would Your Child’s Daycare Respond If Your Child Was Injured By One Of Its Employees?
We represent a child who was injured at daycare. She was injured by a daycare employee who threw a kickball at her head. She was seven years old. The employee was a young adult male. She suffered a concussion.
Before they came to me, the child’s mother gave a recorded statement to the insurance company for [...]
What Forms Did You Sign When You Put Your Child in Day Care?
When you registered your child for day care, did the facility require that you sign a waiver of liability?
You probably signed many forms when you registered your child in a daycare center. Was one of them a form stating that you gave up your right to sue the facility on behalf of your child even [...]
Daycare Workers Charged in Baby’s Death
Dylan Cummings died on May 25, 2010. He was seven weeks old. He was at Little Eagles Day Care operated by Bethel Temple Church of Deliverance in Norfolk, Virginia. An investigation after Dylan’s death revealed that there was only one adult for ten infants at the daycare center. Virginia requires that there by one adult [...]
Daycare Video Shows Employee Scrubbing Child With Abrasive Sponge
Does your child’s daycare center have a webcam? Can you access it during the day? Many daycare centers give parents video access throughout the day so they can check on their child’s experiences during the day.
Imagine the surprise Mr. and Mrs. Locasio would have had if they had checked on their son one day in [...]