Daycare Blues

It is not normal for him to still be crying and behaving this way after a month. If I were you I would find another day care. I had this exact problem with my daughter and it turned out to be the daycare and the staff that was taking care of her. I removed her and never looked back.

Have you considered placing your child in a facitlity that has continous video coverage so you can actually view his room on the internet while you work? My daughter is grown now and has her own children but they are in a daycare that has the continous video. I look in on them often during the day just to ease my own mind.

Good luck
R.

My son had separation/stranger anxiety very badly from the time he was 10 months and still has it. One of my biggest fears is dealing w/those issues when i put Karson back to daycare when I start working fulltime.

When he was about 10 months old he did nothing but cry while he was at daycare "I worked there too in a different classroom" and it just broke my heart cause I could hear him from where I was across the hall. It could mean two things( The care taker is NOT as loving/caring as they should be or he is having separtion anxiety)

I took care of 2 girls about a year ago w/separation anxiety, The older one out grew it when she turned 3 and the younger one was 15 months and had it REALLY bad, and was getting better w/time. It took her 4 wks for her to start to feel comfortable enough not to freak out when her mommy left the room.

I would suggest to be aware of what is going on and pop in like the other mother mentioned. It might be that the caretakers might not be as loving, caring and patient enough as they should be or that your son has separation/stranger anxiety.
I know it's hard to see your son go through that.

Good Luck.
M.

I worked in a day care for a year... and we had a couple of cases like that. Sometimes they just have a tough time adjusting.

As for the sickness... yes, that is normal. We sanitized everything in our daycare constantly... and still colds, and viruses spread like wildfire. That's acutally the reason I quit working there... my son was there with me and he was sick all the time... and I would catch things too.

I don't think that daycare's are terrible places, but I just don't think they're worth it. You end up missing a lot of work to take your child to the doctor, and it can get very frustrating. I'd try to find a SAHM to watch him, or maybe get a nanny.

Something else I noticed was that the children didn't seem to get ill as much when they reached about 2 1/2... maybe by that time their immune systems are better able to handle the environment... I don't know.. I'm not a doctor. I'm just letting you know what I observed.

Good luck!

A.

I own and operate my own in home childcare facility and have 15 years exp. in childcare. It is not "normal" for a one year old to still be crying at drop off time. Have you ever popped in during the day and observed him playing/enteracting w/ the children and staff. There are few rare cases where a child takes a little longer to adjust however since he is not old enough to tell you if bad things are going on there, I would take a few min. to pop in this daycare and just see how he is during the day and see if the staff really cares for him while you are not there as they seem to care when you are. Just a sugestion from someone who has been through the situation. I had a mom come to me a few months ago with a 18 month old little boy who cried every morning before "school" and even started to cry when they passed by the daycare over the weekend. He's been with me for 3 months now and has not cried once at drop off. BEWARE and foloow your mommy instincts :)