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 [...]
What’s going on near your child’s daycare? Any wild cougars running around?
When I started writing this blog about child injuries several months ago, I never thought I’d write a post about cougar safety or, rather, safety from cougars.
My sister-in-law told me that her two-year-old grandson’s daycare is near a wild animal orphanage. A wild adult male cougar escaped the other day and was on the loose [...]
No child should ever be injured by a daycare worker. Ever.
I don’t mean to scare, but I do mean to warn.
I’ve posted before HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE about how important — and hard — it is to find a safe and perfect place for your child’s care. You only want the best for your child, even when you can’t be there. So, just what [...]
What If Your Child’s Daycare Provider Doesn’t Have A Handbook? Go Elswhere.
If your child’s daycare provider doesn’t have a handbook, be very careful. After all, how else is anyone supposed to know how to behave and what the rules are if there’s no handbook? A handbook doesn’t have to be long or fancy. It just needs to BE.
If your child’s daycare provider does have a handbook, [...]
Do You Know the Signs of a Bad Daycare Center?
I have read so many stories lately about daycare center deaths and injuries to young children in Virginia and elsewhere. Many parents cannot get along without daycare centers and must entrust the care of their babies and young children to others for some part of the day. It’s hard to find good care. Here are [...]
Child Abuse Prevention – Resources
Child Abuse Prevention
Childhelp USA: (800)-4-A-CHILD A hotline provides crisis counseling and literature about child abuse.
National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse: 800-Children This organization provides information and referrals about child abuse.
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, 1-888-273-007 The National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome is a private, nonprofit organization that provides information to professionals and parents [...]
Day Care Safety Resources
Day Care Safety
Virginia Star Quality Initiative – A voluntary rating system for day care facilities in Virginia. Includes a list of the highest rated establishments.
State by State codes for child care administration – This site lays out the rules and regulations for day care facilities by state.
National resource Center for Health and Safety in Child [...]
Daycare Death and Outrageous Texas Law Loophole
I’m visiting my family in Texas and read about a case that had been filed against a day care center and the outrageous loophole in Texas law that has allowed the day care center to continue to operate.
The lawsuit was filed by Jeff Rasansky, a Dallas lawyer with special expertise in daycare abuse, on behalf [...]
Daycare Center Shut Down
Last week, I wrote about a young child who died in July from heat exposure after being left in a van for seven hours. The van was driven by an employee of Yellow Brick Road daycare center. The driver “forgot” the child was in the van and the daycare center did not call the parents by [...]
Is Your Child at a Safe Daycare Center?
No parents should have to get the news that the place where they took their child was responsible for the death of their child.
In Richmond, about six weeks ago, a 13-month-old baby was left in a van for over four hours. He died from heat exposure. He was left in the van by an employee at [...]