A Mother's Plea ~ Part 2

I received a note from a friend who has a licensed day care in her home . 
After reading yesterdays blog she had some interesting things to say about some schooling she is just finishing for her daycare provider job.  Please see the following:


The teacher was saying: 
 "We don't want them to feel bad if they have done some thing wrong". No bad feelings. My instructor did not like a book that we love to read to our little guys called "NO, David" in the book David is made to stand in the corner because he hit a baseball while standing in the living room and broke a vase of flowers, (Just after his mother told him not to play ball in the house). The instructor said that she doesn't like that book because it made David feel bad and we should never make our children feel ashamed of them self. 
But this same gal who is the mother of five children,had told us a few weeks earlier that she guess she must owe Target around five hundred dollars for all the stuff her kids had broken over the years. She lets them play with stuff and if they open the package or break it "by accident" then she just puts it on the shelve and walks away. 
She also told us that when she was living in the  South she had a couple of her kids in Wal-Mart and a woman walked up to her and said, "if you don't beat that kid I will"! Now when she was telling this to our class she was pointing out how wrong and rude the people are in the South and how they still believe in spanking and the such. She did point out that children in the South are very polite". 


I just want to bring this to your attention if you indeed place your child/children in Day Care.  Whether it is a state run facility or privately owned, please do your job in the interview process.  You don't want your hard work to be blown away like smoke because the provider not only does not agree with you but lets the class in general run "amuck" when it comes to discipline.  This goes for babysitters as well.  Please make it clear to whomever you put in charge over your children how you would like situations to be handled.  This goes for school teachers etc.  I tried to always let the adult in charge know that I WANTED TO KNOW if there was anything that I needed to tend to.  We don't need to be afraid of this.  Children don't know until they are taught and they cannot be taught if we are not catching the behavior.  Try to get the people who care for your child all on the same page,  Sunday School teacher, school teachers, babysitters and neighborhood moms.   I guess it does take a "Village to rear a child!"