Worried About Daycare

For all those parents overly worried about their child in daycare, this is an anecdotal story from the woman who manages my son's daycare. They offer video cameras of all the rooms and spaces that parents can login to and watch anytime (even overnight).One mother called and emailed upset because she believed her son was spending way too much time in timeout. He was sitting with a toy and looking at a poster on the wall for what she believed was at least 10-15 minutes past what would make sense.The daycare director went to speak to the classroom teachers. They stated that whenever they told him timeout was over, he would say "okay, I'll just finish what I'm doing here first." He would sit in timeout even after they told him it was over because he was playing by himself and not done yet.The daycare director called the mother and told her what she'd learned. The mom became very quiet before saying "Oh my goodness, I'm so ridiculous. He does the same thing at home!"But the daycare director was really glad that the mother had voiced her concerns (however crazy), because if she hadn't, she would have seethed and internalized and would never have known that her kid was actually being pretty awesome. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2f66gDD