So can I bad mouth a daycare???

Are you actually going to change daycares?

From what Shandi tells me I'm not impressed with them let alone how they dicked you around saying cloth was ok.

It would be unfair on Andrew to change him as he has so many friends there. I'm hoping that when he moved to the toddler side it will be ok.

If they had of told me from the beginning I would of looked at other places then so Andrew could of moved then, but I wouldn't get a place for both of them to start next month.

as a preschool teacher this sucks... as you say if they had said no then that's different but they didnt..as for not being hygenic that is crap..we just double bagged the nappies if we needed to change them(threw out inserts depending on what kind etc) and told the parents they were there at the end of the day..

the problem is if you have a complaint against the licensee you rally have to go above her which would be the MOE... unless you want to try talking directly to her first?

i just dont get why they said it was fine and then changed their minds?

yeah really if it was me i probably would (if you cant go any higher than her and think you will get no response from her) go further up.. they will be found to be wrong because they said they would then changed their minds...it's such a little thing they need to get over it:(

Well... I worked at a daycare when I was at uni, in the infant room, so I can try to give you a lowly daycare worker's perspective (since it's usually the lowly ones who are stuck changing nappies).

I worked in the infant room, which had one teacher, one teacher's aide, and two to three classroom assistants. There were up to 20 babies in the room, and we were full to capacity most days. If we weren't full, one of the assistants would get pulled to work in the toddler room, which always had at least 25 kids and one teacher, one teacher's aide, and only one assistant, since the child-adult ratio was different.

In the infant room we changed the nappies at certain "o'clock" times, whether they needed it or not. Nappies were always changed at 10am, noon, 2pm, and 4pm. They were also always changed whenever we noticed they were dirty, so some kids got 6 nappy changes in a day. Every time we changed them, we had to write down the time the nappy was changed and whether it was wet or a poo. One assistant would do the changing, and another one would write down what they called out as to whether it was wet or poo. I got very fast at changing nappies and holding down squirming babies!

Changing 20 babies 4-6 times a day EACH was a mission. It took a good half an hour each time to change all the babies, which means that nappies were being changed for three hours out of the day. Imagine spending three hours each day changing nappies! It would drive you mental!

The daycare I worked at also didn't allow cloth nappies, for a number of reasons. Hygiene was one of those reasons, as well as the necessity of keeping a separate nappy pail from the disposables and sanitising it (because the centre would not have known whether the parents properly sanitised it or not). Having poo nappies sitting around, whether they were double-wrapped or in a pail, was not seen as hygienic either. The centre also didn't know whether dirty cloth nappies were washed in hot enough water to kill bacteria, which was another one of their reasons. The fact that it was classroom assistants changing nappies, not the main teachers, was another consideration -- it was a summer job for me, so I left after three months to go back to school, meaning they had to spend time training someone else. Cloth nappies are easy to use for an experienced mum, but for a teenaged assistant who has never changed a nappy before, it can be confusing. Heck, the time I stayed over at Emma's to look after her gremlins, I couldn't figure out her vast array of cloth nappy supplies so I resorted to the disposables!

I think the issue here is that the centre told you they were happy for you to bring cloth nappies, and now they are reneging on their promise. Which you have every right to be annoyed about. I suggest you talk to the head of the centre and explain that you enrolled your child there with the understanding that cloth nappies were acceptable, and now they are reneging on their agreement. Perhaps you could suggest to them that you will be more than happy to use disposables if they will provide them, or if they will take the cost off of your weekly fee. It might get them to reconsider!

yes BUT...her daycare said it was ok then changed their minds..thats the difference...and i have worked at both..one that changed for no reason(its so weird) and one that didnt..its not the kids fault or the parents that there are lots of kids( i so understand it from both sides)

..I hated having to change 16 nappies 3 times a day for a week:( ick.. but as i said they said they would and then changed their minds! and the problem is with the head of the centre i assume who is also the licensee? or am i wrong?

as far as wrapping them double bagged..thats the best we could do then zip them up in a bag because our policy was to do whatever the parents wanted ..if that was cloth then that was cloth...but we were a smaller centre so didnt have 90 nappies a day to change:(!!

ps- LOTS of preschools have those stupid change times:( its frustrating..!!! sorry it just makes me mad when kids are treated like numbers :( *hence i ended up a supervisor at a centre with not very many children it was great!!!) :) *

which reminds me i have to check with my daycare if they do cloth.

nzpiper wrote: could you say that Andrew is allergic to something in the dispoables and can only use cloth?

Did that (and its Josh, Andrew is the big one ). So when I see my dr on Friday Josh is coming with me and i'm going to be getting a script for a million tubes of the cream to go on his butt so that I have it at home and at daycare so he doesn't get a rash. But... I tried a sposie on him yesterday to make sure they did fit him and he has a nasty rash this morning  on his leg.

No greenie away i'm quite happy to be that way - i'm changing my ways.

I know, I do know that one of the mums that has a child at the preschool and is putting her baby into care later this year uses them. Maybe I should team up with her to get them to change their ways.

They keep going on about how the other children may be able to get into the bag. Now Andrew sometimes struggles with the snaps so I can't see a baby being able to get into the bag.